"They say plan it. I say do it." Tom Peters

President of Environmental Defense Fund, and coauthor of Earth: The Sequel—The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming, Fred Krupp is our new Cool Friend. The book is a field guide to innovation in the alternative energy industry, primarily through a cap and trade law. Not familiar with cap and trade? Read the Cool Friends interview here.

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800-CEO-Read
Ageless Marketing
andHow To Reach Women
Katya Andresen
Tom Asacker
Asia Business Intel
Jordan Ayan
Martha Barletta
Dave Barry
Ed Batista
Becker-Posner
BeeLog
Bigger Isn't Always Better
The Bing Blog
Bird's Eye View
Blog Business Summit
Blog Critics
John Bogle
BoingBoing
Boomer411
Brand Autopsy
BusinessPundit
BW Brand New Day
BW Deal Flow
BW Management IQ
BW The Tech Beat
Cali and Jody
Change This
Church of the Customer
Clear Path International
Cooking for Engineers
Core77
Coudal Partners
Creating Passionate Users
Mark Cuban
design*sponge
Jory Des Jardins
Betsy Devine
Don the Idea Guy
Dooce
Down the Avenue
Daniel W. Drezner
Esther Dyson
eHub
English Cut
Enterprise Media
Escapable Logic
Evhead
Steve Farber
Fast Company
Fast Lane
Brad Feld
The Fischbowl
Richard Florida
Ze Frank
Freakonomics
Free Business Tips
Gil Friend
gapingvoid
Felix Gerena
Dan Gillmor
Seth Godin
Good Experience
Gothamist
Daniel Harrison
Tom Hayes
Health Beat
Hilgenstock | Sachlichkeit
Sally Hogshead
Hyperthinker
IDEO Eyes Open
iinnovate
Influx Insights
Innovate on Purpose
Instapundit
The Intuitive Life
Isenblog
Eric Jackson
Joi Ito
Rich Karlgaard/Forbes
Josh Kaufman
Guy Kawasaki
Learned on Women
Lawrence Lessig
Martin Lindstrom
Chris Locke
The Long Tail
Made to Stick
John Maeda/SIMPLICITY
David Maister
Management by Baseball
MarketingProfs:DailyFix
Marketing to Boomer Women
Mavericks at Work
The Messaging Times
Metacool
Name Wire
Netwoman
NEXT> by Ramla
Nuts about Southwest
John O'Leary
Personal Branding
Dan Pink
Pink Slip
Play the Game of Life
Pollster
John Porcaro
Virginia Postrel
Power Line
PressThink
PSFK
Pyromarketing
Mitch Ratcliffe
Rattle-the-Cage
Fred Reichheld
re:invention
ResearchBuzz
Rethink Pink
Penelope Trunk
Re-Versioning Your Life
Jennifer Rice
Dan Roam
Kevin Roberts
Evelyn Rodriguez
Scott Rosenberg
Samizdata
Ian Sanders
Tim Sanders
Mary Schmidt
Robert Scoble
Scripting News
Doc Searls
Rajesh Setty
Stephen Shapiro
Signal vs. Noise
Slashdot
Simplicity
Smart Mobs
Sorted Books
Springwise
Startup Garden
Startupping
Biz Stone
Halley Suitt
Andrew Sullivan
Sustainable Work
Bob Sutton
TechCrunch
The Technium
TeeBeeDee
Third Age
Trend Hunter
Trend Watching
Trump University
Trusted Advisor
Twist Image
Fara Warner
Web Worker Daily
David Weinberger
What I've Learned So Far
Wild Women Entrepreneurs
Susan Willett Bird
The Wisdom of Improv
WonderBranding
Wooster Collective
Steve Yastrow

Special Slides

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SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

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.—New Master (updated 18 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

Leadership50 (revised 6 Dec 2005)
06 December 2005

Transformational Change (updated 6 Dec 2005)
06 December 2005

Dramatic Difference, One hour (updated 29 Nov 2005)
21 November 2005

Dramatic Difference (updated 14 Nov 2005)
14 November 2005

Ultimate Success Secrets
10 November 2005

Innovate or Die, the Basecase
05 November 2005

Innovate or Die, Long Version
05 November 2005

Buyback, a short rant
04 November 2005

Brand Taiwan
27 October 2005

Lists & Lust
27 October 2005

Small and Medium Enterprises
23 October 2005

Healthcare Special Presentation Overview
23 October 2005

A Bias for Action
17 October 2005

Bossidy—wisdom from the book Execution by Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan
17 October 2005

The Talent50 (updated 13 Oct 2005)
13 October 2005

Tom's Base Case: Re-imagine!
05 October 2005

The Nub of Leadership: Helping/Inviting Others to "Discover Their Greatness"
04 October 2005

PresentationExcellence, 56 Ideas/Suggestions (updated 30 Sept 2005)
30 September 2005

Super TIB25 (TIB = This I Believe)—one slide, lots of ideas
29 September 2005

Leadership50—All Bases (updated 29 Sept 2005)
26 September 2005

The Planning, Planning Systems, Intelligence & Measures50
28 June 2005

Gleanings
Slides to accompany Tom's blog of 20 June 2005.
20 June 2005

Steve Jobs—Stanford
Selected excerpts from Steve Jobs' commencement address at Stanford University, June 2005.
20 June 2005

Interviewing Excellence 31
30 May 2005

MicroPP, A Dozen New Slides
12 May 2005

Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat, summary
09 May 2005

Design49
Prepared for the Better by Design Conference in Auckland, New Zealand, March 2005.
30 March 2005

SHORT.TourD'Horizon
14 February 2005

New Economy. New Biz Degrees.
02 February 2005

CEOs Are Idiots19
26 January 2005

The "PSF" Is Everything
13 January 2005

New C-Levels
Suggestions for the sorts of "Chief" Officers we should have.
27 December 2004

We Live In A "Brand You" World
A short riff on dealing with the Brand You Reality.
27 December 2004

PSF33: Thirty-three Professional Service Firm Marks of Surpassing Distinction
20 December 2004

X04: Excellence Found
08 December 2004

Beyond the "Knowledge Economy"
03 December 2004

Pink-Florida-Littky-Enriquez
02 December 2004

Preview2005
09 November 2004

Peerless "Brand Inside"
08 November 2004

Itinerant Potential Machines
01 November 2004

Step Out ... or Get Stepped On
01 November 2004

Health"care": The Rant
01 November 2004

Leadership3—3 takes on Leadership in one
28 October 2004

HR Master
26 October 2004

Health Care Horrors and Hope
26 October 2004

Short Takes 27
25 October 2004

The Power Is the Story
15 October 2004

SE17: Origins of Sustainable Entrepreneurship
10 October 2004

Virginia Postrel
10 October 2004

Power & Implementation34
16 September 2004

Healthcare
16 September 2004

Healthcare21
16 September 2004

Education for the 3rd Millennium
16 September 2004

Creativity Short Takes
04 September 2004

Goals-Strategy (updated 12 Aug 2004)
12 August 2004

Passion & Purpose (updated 13 July 2004)
13 July 2004

A Passion for Passion
12 June 2004

New Markets, a very short special presentation
26 March 2004

Re-imagine! An Introduction to Crazy Times
12 March 2004

Women & Boomers
11 February 2004

Must Marketing Reads
08 February 2004

Robert Cooper
11 January 2004

China Roars!
01 January 2004

T. Peters vs. J. Collins (updated 16 Mar 2004)
15 December 2003

The Leadership11: Rate yourself! (updated 18 June 2004)
04 December 2003

Legacy
15 October 2003

Biz12: Successful Businesses' 12 Truths
26 February 2003

Connect!
30 January 2003

Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
18 January 2003

Women Rule!
09 October 2002

Tom's 60TIBs (This I Believe) (updated 30 Aug 2002)
28 August 2002

Brand Inside (updated 23 Feb 2002)
19 February 2002

The Solutions Imperative (updated 01 Mar 2002)
29 January 2002

The Sales25
18 December 2001

Revolutionary Government
15 November 2001

Self-Determination
17 August 2001

The HR/Training Manifesto
18 June 2001

MASTER SLIDES

It's in seven parts—roughly 3,500 slides:

Excellence, Version 2007!
A Seven-part Harmony!

Part One: Context. Excellence. "Must dos."
Part Two: Innovation. The case. Tactics (e.g., SAV—Screw Around Vigorously).
Part Three: Climbing-clawing Up-up-up-up the Value-added Ladder. Solutions-The Essential Professional Service Firm model- Experiences- Dreams-Lovemarks.
Part Four: Staggering "New" Market Trillion-dollar opportunities—still neglected. Women. Boomers & Geezers. Women. "Best fit" as Tomorrow's Leaders.
Part Five: "People." Brand You imperative. "Talent," best Roster wins.
Part Six: Leadership in Changing Times including The Leadership50
Part Seven: Key Lists (E.g., "The Irreducible 209." "Us" vs "Them.")

Also:
The Alternate Master—the 1158-slide set that Tom would choose from if he was presenting a day-long seminar | 11 Apr

And, New!
Ten Years in the Making!—The Healthcare Master—completely annotated | 7 Apr

Or choose one of Tom's Event Slides

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