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SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

The BIG Eight Courtesies (updated 28 Nov)
25 November 2009

The Five Courtesies
25 November 2009

Innovation 24
19 June 2009

Quality & Excellence: The Quality 136—136 Random Thoughts on Quality, Emphasizing the Elements That Are Often Missing in Conventional Quality Programs
29 May 2009

The Heart of Business Strategy
18 May 2009

Shanghai: 6-Step Path to Excellence
05 May 2009

Bhidé—The Venturesome Economy | 21 April 2009
21 April 2009

Moving Stuff Around—Mastering the "Art of Nudgery"
15 April 2009

Recession "Secrets" and "Strategies"
26 March 2009

Symbolic Behavior/Smile/Respect
09 December 2008

"Top 27"—Twenty-seven Practical Ideas That Will Transform Every Organization
05 December 2008

The Talent 57
13 November 2008

Tough Times: Excellence Execution
04 November 2008

Getting Things Done MBA
04 November 2008

The Black Swan 44: Tactical Rules for Survival (and Success) in Looney Times
03 October 2008

The Black Swan 44: Tactical Rules for Survival (and Success) in Looney Times. (Plus 'The Basics')
03 October 2008

The Basics
03 October 2008

Hammergren—an addition to the Health"care" Master, slides from the book Skin in the Game by John Hammergren (CEO, McKesson) & Phil Harkins
15 August 2008

New Old Basics, also in a PDF Version
11 June 2008

3H—Howard. Hilton. Herb.
11 June 2008

Resilience—In people and organizations
19 May 2008

The Customer Comes Second
08 May 2008

Boomers-Geezers: Market Opportunity
02 May 2008

Equations—A series of equations stating that "Success is a function of ..."
22 April 2008

The Implementation Master
22 April 2008

3 Cases—Implementation
22 April 2008

Healthcare Master—Ten Years in the Making! A completely annotated slides presentation. (Updated 9 Apr 2008.)
09 April 2008

"Top 50" "Have Yous"
24 March 2008

Guru Gaffes—Contrasts: Guru-world vs. Real World
28 February 2008

The Subprime Times
22 January 2008

Implementation Lists—updated 19 Jan 2008
17 January 2008

Beautiful Systems—I.e., Get the Grunge Out of Your Processes
14 January 2008

PSF35—A section of the Master Presentation devoted to the PSF idea, or rather, 35 ideas
09 January 2008

The Checklist: The Power of a "Blinding Flash of the Obvious"!
19 December 2007

Planetree: A Radical Model for New Healthcare/Healing/Wellness Excellence (updated 30 March 2007)
18 December 2007

The Seduction of Listening
11 December 2007

Cross-functional Excellence—The "XF 50"
11 December 2007

Real Achievement of Competitive Excellence, Mapping Competitive Position—A List of "Top 50" "Have Yous"
11 December 2007

The Case for Internal Focus: "Brand Inside" Rules!
16 September 2007

TRY It!
24 July 2007

The Magic Number 25 / MBWA / Calendars Never Lie / Excellence. Always.
10 July 2007

"The 'Rules'"
26 June 2007

"The 'Rules'" SHORT
26 June 2007

"The 'Rules'" VERY SHORT
26 June 2007

Tom's Iconic Books
22 May 2007

Project Eleanor
08 May 2007

Boomers' Dominance
08 May 2007

Brand Loyalty—STABILITY
08 May 2007

Wiki WikiWorld Wikinomics
09 March 2007

Most Valuable Companies2006: John Laing Homes, Commerce Bank, Jim's Group
03 January 2007

The Action Chronicles, Think vs. Do, PSF, WOW!, Grant, 4/40 (expanded and updated 3 Nov 2006)
03 November 2006

XAlways Women—The Whole Picture (updated 3 Nov 2006)
03 November 2006

Women-Boomers-Geezers, Short Rant
03 November 2006

War on Linearity
26 October 2006

Muhammad Yunus and Microlending—on the occasion of his winning the Nobel Peace Prize
13 October 2006

Leadership: Freddy Delgado vs. Patricia Dunn
06 October 2006

Value of Strategic Plans
06 October 2006

Talent: Lessons from the Arts
06 October 2006

House!—Thoughts on a TV Show!
06 October 2006

26 Passions; 5 Damn Its
28 September 2006

No Last Word
26 September 2006

Dale Carnegie
25 September 2006

Jim's Plus
25 September 2006

The Marti & Margaret Show
22 September 2006

Mary Oliver & Peter Drucker on Their Fellow Humans
22 September 2006

Dell Doldrums+
12 September 2006

Exuberance—quotes from the book by Kay Redfield Jamison
01 September 2006

Wallop Wal*Mart Plus
01 September 2006

Guerilla Advantage
04 August 2006

Grant-Nelson-Boyd-Bossidy
26 July 2006

Origins of Sustainable Entrepreneurship
25 July 2006

Management Versus Leadership?
21 July 2006

Ulysses S. Grant
18 July 2006

Porter-Drucker-Bennis-Peters
18 July 2006

"Sorry, Jack," Fortune, 24 July 2006
18 July 2006

The Question of Scale
13 July 2006

Them v. Us
27 June 2006

Tom Peters' Lessons
27 June 2006

Unilever Diversity
27 June 2006

Innovation Tactics
21 June 2006

Tom Peters on Action
21 June 2006

Innovation Tactics + Action—the two above in combination
21 June 2006

All You Need to Know (updated 21 June 2006)
21 June 2006

Excellence Opener (updated 20 June 2006)
19 June 2006

Excellence Always Stitched—in combination
19 June 2006

Irreducibles209+ / Sales122 / 60 TIBs (a new combination and update 18 June 2006)
19 June 2006

Mini Presentations—a collection of one- or few-slide ideas in one deck
12 June 2006

The Problem Is Rarely the Problem (updated 7 June 2006)
06 June 2006

Paul Arden: THINK THE OPPOSITE
31 May 2006

Innovation: List Only
29 May 2006

Innovation: A Summary Presentation
29 May 2006

Healthcare21 Report Card
29 May 2006

An Enron Juror on Leadership
27 May 2006

The Work Matters: On Self-reliance, Becoming a "Change Insurgent," and the Power of Peculiarities
01 May 2006

Healthcare Report Card
01 May 2006

Containerization—on its 50th Anniversary
26 April 2006

Killer Combo (updated 04.22.06)—includes "Excellence. Always." Plus "First Level Scientific Success," "All the Things You Need to Know," "Leadership23," "People Power," "Leadership2006," "The Irreducible209," and more.
19 April 2006

Irreducibles—209 "for sure" items (updated 31 March 2006)
31 March 2006

B-school M.I.A.
09 March 2006

Marcus Buckingham, The One Thing You Need to Know
16 February 2006

The "3Es"—one slide with an important message
15 February 2006

The Cup Challenge—A collection of truths suitable for the side of a coffee mug
13 February 2006

111 Ridiculously Obvious Thoughts on Selling (PDF—updated from "90 Thoughts" dated 24 Jan 2006)
31 January 2006

Lists: Important Stuff
25 January 2006

89 Ridiculously Obvious Thoughts About Selling Stuff and 90 Thoughts (PDF)
25 January 2006

41 Favorite Quotes and 42 Quotes (PDF)
25 January 2006

Toward Health(care) Excellence
23 January 2006

Re-imagine! Speech—100 Words or Less
06 January 2006

The Excellence Basics, 1982-2005
08 December 2005