Off the Cuff Series

We're happy to announce the start of our Off the Cuff video series. A few months ago we asked for you to send us questions you'd like us to ask Tom on camera. The first question was posed by longtime fan Dave Wheeler, about how it came to be that Tom realized the importance of front line supervisors. We find the timing of this particularly remarkable, since it dovetails so well with the latest part of the Mother of All Presentations released at ExcellenceNow.com, First-line Supervisors Rule.

RSS at ExcellenceNow.com

You can now subscribe via RSS to ExcellenceNow.com so that you're alerted as soon as a new Part of the Mother of All Presentations is released. Go to ExcellenceNow.com and use the little orange button at the bottom of the Slide Set list to subscribe. Happy reading!

"Tom Peters Still Rocks"

We're quite excited about the overwhelmingly positive response we've seen to our new ExcellenceNow.com site. We hope you're finding lots of inspiration about why you do what you do from Part 2's Moral Basis for Enterprise, and are starting to focus in on your front line supervisors after this week's release of Part 3.

Erika Andersen wrote a kind review of the site at Forbes.com that we think you'll enjoy reading. She talks about her first encounter with Tom through In Search of Excellence, and describes him as a "tribal elder." As 2012 marks 30 years since In Search was published, perhaps that moniker is apt.

Trustworthy Business Behavior

There are a lot of lists out there, but Tom was quite pleased to be named one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior. Despite occasionally referring to himself as a card-carrying capitalist pig, anyone who is familiar with Tom's work, especially his latest book, The Little BIG Things, knows how deeply entwined Tom considers decency and success.

A Traveling Banner

Tom and his wife, Susan, have fallen deeply in love with New Zealand. Each year they spend several months there. Right now, they're making their way to the near-literal antipode of Vermont to begin their 2012 respite. To celebrate, we thought you'd enjoy a New Zealand-themed banner during the time that Tom is staying there. It was designed by the talented Joy Stauber. Tom took the center photo himself.

"This Is It"
MOAP
Excellence. Now.

This is it.
"It"/MOAP/Mother Of All Presentations/ excellencenow.com took three years to write.
And 45 years of preparation.

MOAP is in effect—23 parts and 4,096 slides—"all I know."

And all yours, no strings attached, to be used as you wish and released by us at the rate of one part every two weeks until more or less the end of 2012.

We were lucky enough—and surprised as the dickens—to find that "excellencenow.com" was available. It, along with slideshare.net [coming soon!], will be the home of and repository for MOAP.

The special bit is the "extreme annotation." We estimate 100,000++ words of annotation accompany the standard slides. The notion is that each of the 23 parts will be in effect a book—the story, or 23 stories, is intended to stand alone without further interpretation needed. (Annotations are also produced as slides, since our experience is that few pay attention to the standard indirect notes feature—and pay attention is what we hope you'll do.)

Why this format you may ask.
The answer in short: I do slides.

I have given somewhat more than 2,500 presentations (in 67 countries) on "this excellence stuff" since we began our initial organization effectiveness research at McKinsey in 1977. I've illustrated my presentations with "overheads" and glass-mounted slides—and, for the last 15 or so years, with PowerPoint creations. The slide is my unit of measure, my sub-atomic particle if you will; and since MOAP/excellencenow.com is some form of "summa," the slide format is fitting.

The 23-part presentation is, I believe, a coherent narrative, with a plotline that goes more or less from the alpha to the omega of my work. But, more practically, it is a reference encyclopedia of sorts. My goal is grand theft—that is, your grand theft of my material. This is "the stuff I care about" and the stuff to which I have, effectively, given my life. And I want to share as much of it as I can—all of it in fact. And hope that as you read through or skim the material, you'll find items or streams of thought that are of value.

I could go on, but for once I won't.
Excellence.
Now.
Have at it ....

(Below: Some have a fruit bowls on their desk. Some of us, traveling idea salesmen like me, adorn our desk with a bowl of plug adapters.)

[Special thanks to Joy Stauber for designing the new site, and to our friends at House of Pretty for bringing it to life.]

Harvey Mackay's New Release

Harvey Mackay is a world-renowned expert on selling, with past bestsellers in his name such as Swim With the Sharks and Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt, considered by some to be classics on the topic. His new book—just out—promises to be as popular: The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World. In exchange for your email address, get the first chapter here and see for yourself.

Recent Tom Interviews and Other Stuff Worth Mentioning

Julie Anixter (an old friend!) posted an interview with Tom at InnovationExcellence.com:
The Tom Peters Interview—"Excellence NOW"

An excerpt from Debbie Millman's book, Brand Thinking, in which she interviews Tom, appeared on the 800ceoread blog:
Brand Thinking with Debbie Millman and
Tom Peters

In the emails, Tom received this suggestion for enhancing one of his tweets. Kudos to Tom for getting 30 years' experience into 140 characters! We'll let him slide for leaving out the marching band:
Re-imagine! The Musical, from Shortcuts to Managing Right

Tom received another email stating that the "Tom Peters consultancy was ranked number 7 in the category of Independent Consultants/Trainers/Coaches" in the Leadership 500 ranking by the folks at Leadership Excellence. We're very proud of the London office of Tom Peters Company. They're doing excellent work based on Tom's principles.

Surviving the (Never-Ending) Downturn

In honor of Halloween, we're announcing a mini-ebook called Surviving the (Never-Ending) Downturn. After all, what's scarier than the economy these days? It's available in the iBookstore and is part of our Excellence Now ebook series. As mentioned earlier, we're experimenting with format, and this is a freshly designed short-form ebook of Tom's Recession 46 list.

Happy Halloween!

Excellence Now eBooks

It's no secret that Tom's passion is Excellence. What better subject matter for a series of ebooks, then? We're excited to announce that we're working with New Word City to publish just that: a series of ebooks about Excellence. The series is titled Excellence Now and will cover Excellence throughout a wide range of topics, from innovation to talent to, well, all things Excellent.

We're having a great time experimenting with ways to present Tom's oeuvre in digital format. For now, the ebook series is available for consumption on your iPhone, iPad, and through iTunes on any computer.

Much more digital content is in the works (ebooks, apps, etc.), so check back from time to time. For now, we'll start you off with the eponymous flagship ebook, Excellence Now. It's thoroughly inspirational and beautifully designed. If this doesn't light a fire under you to strive harder for Excellence in your work, we can't imagine what would. Enjoy!

Johannesburg in November

Tom will be giving a day-long presentation in November in Johannesburg, South Africa. Our friends at the Business Results Group are putting on a very special day on November 8 that's open to the public. The program is REINVENTING EXCELLENCE! Reinventing Leadership, Talent, Design and Trends. Find out more information here. If you're in the area, you really won't want to miss this rare event!

Tom Answers Your Questions

We'll be sitting Tom down in front of a camera in a few days. If you're a fan of The Little BIG Video Series, then perhaps you'd like to help us. Tom thought it would be fun to invite all of you to submit questions which he'll then answer via video. Not all questions will be answered, but if you send us a particularly great question, we'll capture Tom's response on video and we'll share it with the world. So put on your thinking caps and send your questions to tom@tompeters.com or tweet them to Tom (@tom_peters, #TPQA) before Wednesday, June 15.

Lecturing at Norwich University

Tom will be speaking at Norwich University as part of their Todd Lecture Series next week. It's Wednesday, June 15 at 2pm. This is a rare occasion where you can see Tom speak free of charge.

Yes, this event is free and open to the public, you just need to reserve a ticket. If you're in the area, please check it out. If not, the event will be livestreamed here. We've also heard that Vermont Public Radio will be recording the speech, and will let you know details about the broadcast when we're informed.

For Business Book Authors

When I'm not helping Tom with the cool projects he always has cooking, I'm helping other business book authors create and grow successful speaking careers. For those of you who aspire to be the next Tom Peters, or want spread your ideas as far and wide as possible, a few events are approaching that may interest you.

On June 21 and 22 in Portland Oregon, Todd Sattersten, Tim Grahl, and I are presenting BizBookLab Live. We are going to cover three important aspects in the career of every business thought leader—publishing books, building a tribe, and establishing a speaking career. Find out more about the event here.

I teamed up with these two because Todd Sattersten, former President of 800CEOREAD and coauthor of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time, simply knows more about business books and the publishing world than anyone (no, really, he does). And Tim Grahl of Out:Think Group has been effectively building tribes for business authors—not just talking about it, actually doing it (his client list speaks for itself).

The three of us will be hosting a call on Thursday, May 5 at 1:00PM EDT. It's a rare opportunity to ask any question you'd like about publishing and marketing a business book, and how to leverage that into a speaking career. Sign up for the free call here.

Hope you find this information helpful. I hope you join us—the more the merrier! And thanks for listening.

Cool Friend Bill Taylor Webinar

Several of our Cool Friends are delivering webinars through G5 Leadership this year. The team at G5 was kind enough to offer a gift to our readership. Cool Friend Bill Taylor has a webinar coming up and they've given us a code for you to use to take part in the webinar for free. Here are the details:

Practically Radical by Fast Company magazine founder and New York Times bestselling author Bill Taylor is a game plan for game-changers to transform their teams and companies.

• Where to look for new ideas when you're stuck at status-quo
• Discover what your team or company is uniquely great at delivering
• How to get the greatest contributions from the most people and keep them engaged

Date: 9 March 2011
Time: 11 am ET (90 minutes)
Click here to register.
Discount Code: "tompeters"
Click here for more information.

A Day with Tom

Tom's still down under and will be giving a day long seminar next week in Auckland, New Zealand. On February 23, BNZ will be presenting A Day with Tom Peters. If you're in the area, be sure to come and say hello to Tom.

Public Event in Sydney

If you're one of our Australian readers, or will be down under next week, you may want to register to attend the National Business Growth Summit in Sydney. Tom will be giving an all day presentation on Wednesday, February 16. Don't miss it!

Daily Quote to Become Weekly Quote

With most people struggling to wade through the abyss that's become their email inbox, we've decided to change the Daily Quote subscription service to the Weekly Quote. Every Monday, you'll receive a quote from Tom delivered to your inbox. If you're not already subscribed, you can do so here. And if that's just not enough Tom for you, feel free to follow him on Twitter (@Tom_Peters), or check out his Free Stuff page for more developed thoughts.

Where's Your Blind Spot?

There's a new interview with Tom in The Globe and Mail: Tom Peters Sees Your Blind Spots. Despite its brevity, it's packed with good advice. Check it out.

Recent Honors

Tom has been mentioned in several "best" lists himself, lately. LeadershipNow.com listed The Little BIG Things as one of The Best Leadership Books of 2010. Under30CEO.com published
10 Books Every Entrepreneur Must Read From 2010 and had this to say about The Little BIG Things:

VERDICT Those who want to improve their business, whether a boss or an employee, will find great ideas in this compelling and very browsable book.

And if those weren't enough high praise, we were thrilled to see what the Financial Times had to say yesterday:

The Management Gurus Due for a Review

Gladwell, like Drucker, has the advantage of not being a business practitioner. He can observe impartially. Jim Collins, the author of Good to Great and most recently How the Mighty Fall, is similarly impartial, but the case studies in his books, as in many of those written by business school professors, risk ageing poorly. He would do well to follow the example of Tom Peters, who wrote In Search of Excellence in 1982 but has never stopped reinventing himself and developing new material, becoming a blogger and Tweeter at an age when many gurus would rather retire to their herbaceous borders. Peters is on Olympus. Collins has more to prove.

Never fear, those of us who work closely with Tom are doing our best to keep him grounded/deflate his ego as necessary (there are plenty of Greek god allusions, you can be sure).

Merry Christmas

From all of us at tompeters.com, may you have a day filled with peace and joy. No matter your observance this season, we hope you experience delight. Our thoughts, as always, are with our troops abroad and hope their homecoming happens soon. Happy Holidays.

The Red Bull of Management Thinkers

Tom's made it onto another list. This morning, Inc. announced its Year's Best Books for Business Owners. The Little BIG Things has been included and Tom was called "the Red Bull of management thinkers." We thought that moniker was particularly apt, and Tom was quite honored to have made it onto the list.

Tom's in the Top 5

Tom's tweets were recommended by OpenForum as one of the Top 5 Twitter feeds on Entrepreneurship. He joined Chris Brogan, Pam Slim, Becky McRay's SB Survival, and Anita Campbell's Small Biz Trends. We all know that using social media can be a powerful tool, no matter your industry, yet it's challenging to do it well on a consistent basis. Tom's been working hard to not only find the right balance of conversation and offering bits of wisdom at Twitter, but also tweet on a daily basis, so this was welcome praise.

MSNBC Quotes Tom

Last week, Tom was quoted by Tony Schwartz on MSNBC [forward the video to approximately 3:10]. While discussing leadership qualities, Schwartz quoted one of Tom's tweets. For more on Tom's leadership thoughts, or to have a conversation with him personally, you can follow Tom's tweets here: @tom_peters.

App Giveaway

Last week we had a surprise giveaway of Tom's The Little BIG Things Vook iPhone and iPad apps. We ask people to submit their own Two-Cent Candy story.

We received some remarkable stories (even a winning tweet!). Among the winning stories were those of a fantastic "Director of First Impressions," an eBay vendor who included popcorn in a box of purchased DVDs, and a spectacularly sanitary little sweets shop in India.

Our favorite came from a gentleman named Stuart:

My daughter was flying from London Heathrow to Philadelphia to a friend's wedding and left her hat, the wedding present and her travel details on the bus which transferred her from the car park to the terminal.

Only realising what she had done minutes before check-in she was trying to "be brave" when through a throng of people came her "knight in (shining) dayglo," the bus driver, carrying her forgotten belongings.

He had no need to do it. And it can't have been easy delivering her things personally but he did it and made my daughter's day.

And those of you who enjoy parsimony of words will appreciate this tweet sent from Daryl of 360Construction:

"When 360 began, we'd jump at the chance to fix a rickety doorknob. Today, no matter client size, our people check/fix doors."

Congratulations to all the winners. And many thanks to all who participated, as well as our friends at Vook.

The Global Detective

Tom's good friend Alan Webber has a new ebook out called The Global Detective: My search for clues, cues, and views in the lands of tall blonde people. Alan went on quite a journey to discover what's happening with entrepreneurs the world over, and this is the first in a series. As the cofounder of Fast Company, he has a particularly unique perspective. (And we believe he wore a fedora.)

Tom's Events

We're happy to announce a new feature at the site. For those fans who were missing our former calendar of Tom's events, you'll be happy to know that we've added a Tom's Events section in the right column here at the front page of tompeters.com. It's right over there under the video box. We'll be updating the list to include only upcoming events that are open to the public. We're hoping this will make it easier for you to make plans to see Tom speak.

20 Questions

Tom is featured in the Financial Times 20 Questions series today. He's asked, among other things, what he likes and hates about his job, what he's reading, and how he deals with critics. Don't miss his answer to the worst thing ever said about him—it was from Peter Drucker.

Headed to Des Moines

On October 7th, Tom will be speaking in Des Moines, Iowa at Iowa's Advanced Manufacturing Conference. The event is open to the public. If you're interested in attending, you can find out more here.

Recent Books from our Cool Friends

Tom's great friends and former partners, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, have a new book out called The Truth About Leadership: The No-Fads, Heart of the Matter Facts You Need to Know. They've devoted their lives to leadership, so this is one you won't want to miss.

Bob Sutton has a new book coming out in September called Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best... and Learn from the Worst. Not only that, according to Bob, "we just put together a quiz that people can use to help determine of their boss is good or bad—and whether he or she lives in a fool's paradise."

Don Tapscott also has a book coming out in September called MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World.

David Meerman Scott's new book is Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead:What Every Business Can Learn from the Most Iconic Band in History. Tom has quoted Jerry Garcia for years and wholly subscribes to the "give lots away for free" aspect of their marketing philosophy.

Sally Helgesen has a new book out called The Female Vision: Women's Real Power at Work.

If there's a single person we'd recommend you listen to about social media, it's Chris Brogan. Thankfully, he published a handbook this year called Social Media 101: Tactics and Tips to Develop Your Business Online.

And someone who never ceases to surprise us with revelations about human behavior, Dan Ariely, has a new book called The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home.

This doesn't fit precisely within the theme of this post, but we want to point you to an excellent resource. Our good friends and colleagues Robert Thompson and Mike Neiss have started a series of podcasts that they cleverly call Thought Grenades. Have a listen.

The Little BIG Things
Synopsis Series, Introduction

Tom is simply determined to get the content of The Little BIG Things:163 Ways to Pursue Excellence in front of as many people in as many ways as is humanly possible. Most recently, he has written a new, abbreviated version of the book. It includes new material, but has been compressed in a way that features the main idea of each of the 163 sections, while mostly omitting the "How tos" and supporting case examples. While we think the lengthier version of the material—with its pragmatic calls to action—is the ideal way to absorb the content, we are also delighted to offer up the nuggets from each of the 163 bits. Moreover, since In Search of Excellence in 1982, and especially at tompeters.com in the last six years, the goal is to give away as much material as we can in order to engage you with the ideas that have animated Tom in his writing and thousands of speeches. Of course, we hope this "edition" will spur you to buy a zillion copies of the hardcover edition of the book—but we'll gladly accept your interest in these ideas in any way, shape or form.

Download the introduction to the synopsis format of The Little BIG Things, wherein Tom describes exactly why he wanted to produce this version of the content. We'll be posting around two sections each week, starting next week. Find out more about The Little BIG Things here. We also have related videos, an audio version read by Tom, and apps.

FT Kindness Column

Tom wrote a column for the Financial Times called "Kindness can be the hardest word." You can find it here (free registration required).

HSM/Sao Paulo

Tom is in Sao Paulo with his old pals (especially Jose Salibi Neto) at HSM. This is about year 25! At "Forum HSM De Estrategia" he has a morning general session. Then a private company session in the afternoon. His fellow provocateurs include Michael Porter and Renee Mauborgne—Tom, the "execution dude" and two great strategists. Fun for all, presumably.

Download the slides:
General Session
Private Session

Ahoy There:
What's Ahead?

[Our guest blogger is Madeleine McGrath, Managing Director of the Tom Peters Company.]

Maybe it's just us, but we've been getting the feeling that business owners and managers in our network are at last beginning to lift their heads up to look ahead for their organizations. It's not surprising that many have been preoccupied with survival for quite some time now, but the slowness of the recovery has been remarkable. We've been wondering how this punishing recession will have affected the way people are viewing their roles as leaders and where they will choose to focus their efforts as they look beyond the immediate horizon.

Tom is, and as a result we are, passionate about Excellence, and we are always keen to connect with the mood of the moment. That's why we have decided to focus our Summer Research Project on discovering if there are any trends emerging in the way leaders are viewing their future development priorities.

We are particularly interested in the point of view of the kind of folks who follow this blog—a population that we have always found to be forward looking and optimistic. Are you running a team or organization? Or are you a consultant that offers services to organization leaders? Do you have around 30 minutes to spare to take our online survey in the next couple of weeks? In return for your participation, we'll be delighted to share our findings with you. We've already heard from early survey participants that completing the audit has given them some great food for thought about where they might concentrate their efforts.

For more information about the research study and how to register to participate, click here. Thanks!

The Little BIG Vooks

As Tom says, "He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!" We're all about experimentation, especially with new technology. So when we heard about vooks—applications that combine books and videos—we were excited by the possibility of mashing up Tom's writing and his videos. The result is a very cool way to experience The Little BIG Things. So if you have an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, check them out.

The Little BIG Things: Excellence
The Little BIG Things: Leadership
The Little BIG Things: You
The Little BIG Things: Enterprise
The Little BIG Things: Strategy

Banners

If you're a frequent visitor to tompeters.com, doubtless you've noticed the lovely banners that change seasonally (click here for the archive). As today is the summer solstice, we'd normally have a new banner. However, we've decided to keep the banner that's currently at the top of the site up there for a few more seasons. We think it so thoroughly reflects the spirit of Tom's new book that we'd like it to stick around. Hope you agree.

Goodbye Cathy

After over a decade of dedication to Excellence, Cathy Mosca will be departing at the end of June. Her time with Tom has been devoted (and I don't use that word lightly) to ensuring that tompeters.com as well as all the books, slides, and documents that Tom has written are of the highest quality, and she has rarely missed the mark. As the primary contact behind the tom@tompeters.com email address, Cathy has gone over and above for anyone needing help, especially if it's finding an obscure quote (some say she knows Tom's books better than he does). To say that she will be missed is a gross understatement. We invite you to take a moment and wish her well in the comments.

Closing Comments

Tom has always enjoyed the interchange of ideas in the comments area of his blog. He's actually included some of what's been written here in The Little BIG Things. All of us here at tompeters.com feel that our community has been enhanced and enriched by so many who have shared their thoughts with us. But for several reasons, not least of which is the amount of time it takes to battle the recent increase in contextual spam, we have decided to close comments on future posts as of this Friday, June 18. (Along with that, the comments RSS feed will end, as will the RSS feed for the Free Stuff page) All of the comments on past posts will remain.

Rest assured that Tom will continue to blog and you'll still be able to contact him. He's on Twitter daily (@tom_peters) and that's the most direct way of connecting with him. If you're new to Twitter, or would rather read only, try something like Seesmic Look (software that helps you get started by reading only rather than engaging) or Tweetree (a site that allows you to read the ongoing conversations). And don't forget the old standby, email (tom at tompeters.com).

For those of you who have taken the time over the years to let us know what you think, thank you. For those loyal readers who have never felt drawn to comment, we invite you to say hello this week. Whether you comment or you don't, thank you for reading!

Changes Afoot!

Good Friday brought a bit of a health scare. In the subsequent two months things, though perhaps more troublesome, have come more or less fully under control as best anyone can tell. Hence there are only a few wee absolute constraints on my daily routine. Nonetheless, the "event" was a wake-up call to pay more attention to the cumulative impact of a schedule and level of continuous intensity, since 1974, that buggers the imagination. (George Clooney's character in "Up in the Air" is a piker by comparison.)

It was a wake-up call that, with much and often rude urging from friends and associates and family and docs, I've decided to tend to. Which in turn alters "the business case" and priorities list at tompeters.com and elsewhere in my personal and professional life. Hence you can expect forthcoming announcements of changes to be made with some dispatch.

I underscore that it's in no way professional "sayonara." I am "open for business"—but not as much business. I had an absolutely lovely time giving the Olin lecture at Cornell this past weekend. It was my first speech in two months—my longest hiatus in about 35 years. I realized how much I still love what I do, and just how much more I can appreciate it when the stress of continuous travel and frantic preparation has been dramatically reduced.

Cupcakes Revisited

Last night Tom had a terrific time speaking to a crowd of 60 packed into a cupcake salon as part of Debbie Weil's Sweets & Tweets events in Washington, DC. To see what people had to say about the event, you can follow their live tweets using the hashtag #sweetevent, or watch a video interview with Tom and Debbie.

Tom & Cupcakes in DC

Cool Friend Debbie Weil is hosting a Sweets and Tweets event featuring Tom on Wednesday, May 26 at 8pm. If you're in the Washington, D.C. area next week, stop by and chat with Tom while getting a sugar rush.

Comments Repaired

Our commenting system is now back up and running. Again, apologies to anyone who attempted to comment but was unable to. Looking forward to hearing what you think of Tom's blog posts from earlier this week.

Comments Trouble

We're experiencing some technical difficulties with our commenting system. Huge apologies to anyone who has tried to comment but has been unable to. We'll let you know when it's back up and functioning. If you have something that you just can't wait to say to Tom, feel free to use Twitter, or email him at Tom at tompeters.com. Thanks, and sorry.

Tom's in the Top Ten

We got an email from Jurgen Appelo, who recently assessed notable management blogs using statistics from Google PageRank, Bing, Alexa, Technorati, Twitter Grader, PostRank, and FeedBurner. We're happy to find Tom at #9 on his list of Top 150 Management & Leadership Blogs. Click on the link to get the full story of how he compiled the list. Thanks to Jurgen for the recognition.

Listen Up! (Audio update)

The Little BIG Things is available as an audio download. At iTunes ($26.95), from Audible.com ($30.61/$7.49 [promo]), and other places we haven't tracked down yet.

Oh, and we're going to put audio files up at tompeters.com. One section a week or so. (There are roughly 40 sections in the book.) The four 'Ways' in the first section are up now.

Happy Publication Day!

We have a book! The Little BIG Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence. It's for sale in stores! It's for sale online! We're excited! We're happy! We're relieved. Many many thanks to Cathy Mosca, Shelley Dolley, Joy Stauber, Richard Weaver, Mike Slind, Sarah Rainone, all the folks at HarperStudio, Abbey Bishop, Shannon Waite, Charlie Macomber, Su (at House of Pretty), the community at tompeters.com, and countless others (check out the Acknowledgments on p. 511). And, of course, thanks to Tom for writing the book.

Frequent commenter MarkJF is hankering for an autographed book, and we're sure he's not alone. Since we no longer sell books at this site, Tom has signed a number of book plates. Send an email to tom@tompeters.com with your mailing address and we'll send you one to put in your own copy of The Little BIG Things.

Tom did record an audio version as well. It won't be available on CDs but will be a download. Not abridged. He read the whole book. We'll keep you posted on that.

Seth Godin added The Little BIG Things to his latest off-the-wall book list.

Our Cool Friend Chris Brogan reviews! it! here!

More info on our own The Little BIG Things page.

The Financial Times Weighs In

We thought you might enjoy reading an early review of The Little BIG Things by Stefan Stern, management writer for the Financial Times (sorry, registration required). Turns out, he liked it. And he penned one of my favorite descriptions of Tom: "[T]his 'wizard of wow!', this 'emperor of excellence' wins you over with his irrepressible energy and verve."

Re-Set: The Business Models of Tomorrow

Tom's publisher HarperStudio and Vanity Fair are putting on a breakfast on April 20th in New York that we think might interest you. It's called Re-Set: The Business Models of Tomorrow. Seth Godin will moderate and the panelists are Tom, Anna Bernasek, Michael Eisner, and Gary Vaynerchuk. (Sounds like something you don't want to miss, doesn't it?)

Find out more at www.resetbusiness.com or download the invitation.

The Little BIG Things book page

We're getting very excited about the launch of Tom's new book, The Little BIG Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence. We've created a landing page for the book. You can find out where to pre-order the book, check out what people are saying about it, watch a video, and (yes!) get a sneak preview of the book. We'll be adding audio excerpts soon as well, so stay tuned!

What Matters Now, on Paper

We gave you a heads up when What Matters Now, the ebook that Seth Godin put together with the help of over 70 friends, became available. (You're welcome. How could we keep something that fantastic a secret?) Now you can order a paperback with all proceeds going to one of our favorite non-profits, Room to Read.