Slides at … tompeters

1. Tom Peters’ Re-Imagine!Excellence in a Disruptive AgeKan-ed/Re-Imagine2005 Wichita/15June2005

2. It is the foremost task—and responsibility—of our generation to re-imagine our enterprises, private and public.—from the Back Cover,Re-imagine: Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age

3. Slides at …tompeters.com

4. Re-imagine! Not Your Father’s World I.

5. 26m

6. 43h

7. 2003: 98% U.S.2005: U.S. 150; Shanghai 500

8. 2007 C>E

9. 1 Houston/Month

10. 168/18,500/51,000

11. Savings, internal investment, external investment> 50% GDP

12. THREE BILLION NEW CAPITALISTS—Clyde Prestowitz

13. Re-imagine! Not Your Father’s World II.

14. “There is no job that is America’s God-given right anymore.”—Carly Fiorina/HP/01.08.2004

15. “In a global economy, the government cannot give anybody a guaranteed success story, but you can give people the tools to make the most of their own lives.”—WJC, from Philip Bobbitt, The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History

16. +People skills & emotional intelligence (financial service sales, 78%/248K; RNs, 28%/512K; lawyers, 24%/182K)Imagination & creativity (architects, 44%/60K; designers, 43%/230K; photographers, 38%/50K)Analytic reasoning (legal assts, 66%/159K; electronic engs, 28%/147K)Source: “Where the Jobs Are”/NYT/05.13.2004/data 1994-2004

17. -Formulaic intelligence (health record clerks, 63%/36K; secretaries & typists, 30%/1.3M; bookkeepers, 13%/247K)Manual dexterity (sewing machine ops, 50%/347K; lathe ops, 49%/30K; butchers, 23%/67K)Muscle power (timber cutters, 32%/25K; farm workers, 20%/182K) Source: “Where the Jobs Are”/NYT/05.13.2004/data 1994-2004

18. “Over the last decade the biggest employment gains came in occupations that rely on people skills and emotional intelligence and among jobs that require imagination and creativity. … Trying to preserve existing jobs will prove futile—trade and technology will transform the economy whether we like it or not. Americans will be better off if they strive to move up the hierarchy of human talents. That’s where our future lies.”—Michael Cox, Richard Alm and Nigel Holmes/“Where the Jobs Are”/NYT/05.13.2004

19. Agriculture Age (farmers)Industrial Age (factory workers)Information Age (knowledge workers)Conceptual Age (creators and empathizers)Source: Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind

21. The Memphis Manifesto*: Building a Community of Ideas1. Cultivate & reward creativity.2. Invest in the creative ecosystem.3. Embrace diversity.4. Nurture the creatives.5. Value risk-taking.6. Be authentic (emphasize uniqueness)7. Invest in and build on quality of place.8. Remove barriers to creativity.9. Take responsibility for change. Development as D.I.Y.10. Ensure that every person, especially children, has the right to creativity. Become a “Steward of creativity.”*2003/The Creative 100/MemphisSource: Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class

22. “The Creative Age is a wide-open game.”—Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class

23. “When I was growing up, my parents used to say to me: ‘Finish your dinner—people in China are starving.’ I, by contrast, find myself wanting to say to my daughters:‘Finish your homework—people in China and India are starving for your job.’”—Thomas Friedman/06.24.2004

24. Re-imagine! Not Your Father’s World III.

25. “A focus on cost-cutting and efficiency has helped many organizations weather the downturn, but this approach will ultimately render them obsolete.Only the constant pursuit of innovation can ensure long-term success.”—Daniel Muzyka, Dean, Sauder School of Business, Univ of British Columbia (FT/09.17.04)

26. The General’s Story. (And the Admiral’s.)

27. “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” —General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff. U. S. Army

28. Nelson’s secret:“[Other] admirals more frightened of losing than anxious to win”

29. My Story.

30. “In Tom’s world, it’s always better to try a swan dive and deliver a colossal belly flop than to step timidly off the board while holding your nose.”—Fast Company /October2003

31. Everybody’s Story.

32. “One Singaporean workercosts as much as …3 … in Malaysia 8 … in Thailand 13 … in China 18 … in India.”Source: The Straits Times/08.18.03

33. 1. Re-imagine: Innovate or Die!

34. “Under his former boss, Jack Welch, the skills GE prized above all others were cost-cutting, efficiency and deal-making. What mattered was the continual improvement of operations, and that mindset helped the $152 billion industrial and finance behemoth a marvel of earnings consistency.Immelt hasn’t turned his back on the old ways, but in his GE, the new imperatives are risk-taking, sophisticated marketing and, above all, innovation.”—BW/032805

35. 2. Re-imagine Organizing I: IS/IT as Disruptive Tool!

36. “UPS used to be a trucking company with technology.Now it’s a technology company with trucks.”—Forbes

37. “Ebusiness is about rebuilding the organization from the ground up. Most companies today are not built to exploit the Internet. Their business processes, their approvals, their hierarchies, the number of people they employ … all of that is wrong for running an ebusiness.”Ray Lane, Kleiner Perkins

38. “Our entire facility is digital. No paper, no film, no medical records. Nothing. And it’s all integrated—from the lab to X-ray to records to physician order entry. Patients don’t have to wait for anything. The information from the physician’s office is in registration and vice versa. The referring physician is immediately sent an email telling him his patient has shown up. … It’s wireless in-house. We have 800 notebook computers that are wireless. Physicians can walk around with a computer that’s pre-programmed. If the physician wants, we’ll go out and wire their house so they can sit on the couch and connect to the network. They can review a chart from 100 miles away.” —David Veillette, CEO, Indiana Heart Hospital (HealthLeaders/12.2002)

39. 3. Re-imagine Organizing II: What Organization?

40. “Organizations will still be critically important in the world, but as ‘organizers,’ not ‘employers’!”— Charles Handy

41. 07.04/TP In Nagano …Revenue: $10BFTE: 1**Maybe

42. Not “out sourcing”Not “off shoring”Not “near shoring”Not “in sourcing”but …“Best Sourcing”

43. “Managers are the dinosaurs of our modern organizational ecology. The Age of Management is finally coming to a close.The need for overseers, surrogate parents, scolds, monitors, functionaries, disciplinarians, and bureaucrats is over, while the need for visionaries, leaders, coordinators, coaches, mentors, facilitators, and conflict resolvers is steadily increasing. ... A far-reaching organizational transformation has already begun. This revolution is attempting to turn inflexible, autocratic, static, coercive bureaucracies into agile, evolving, democratic, collaborative, self-managing webs of association.”—The End of Management, Kenneth Cloke & Joan Goldsmith

44. 4. Re-imagine Organizing III: The Power of “We”

45. “THE POWER OF US: Mass Collaboration on THE INTERNET Is Shaking Up Business”—Cover/BusinessWeek/06.20.05

46. “The nearly 1 billion people online worldwide—along with their shared knowledge, social contacts, online reputations, computing power, and more—are rapidly becoming a collective force of unprecedented power. For the first time in human history, mass cooperation across time and space is suddenly economical.” —BW/06.20.05

47. “The architecture of participation”—Tim O’Reilly/Tech-book publisher

48. “Give a little, take a lot.”—open source motto (BW cover/0131/on Linux)

49. Wikipedia.org

50. “Blogging made my year!” —TPPortal!Conversations!Collaboration!New value!