The Passion Imperative: The Leadership50 Tom Peters/Bangkok/01August2006

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The Passion Imperative The Leadership50Tom
Peters/Bangkok/01August2006
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The Basic Premise.
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1. Leadership Is a Mutual Discovery Process.
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Ninety percent of what we call management
consists of making it difficult for people to get
things done. Peter Drucker
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I dont know.
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Organizing Genius / Warren Bennis and Patricia
Ward BiedermanGroups become great only when
everyone in them, leaders and members alike, is
free to do his or her absolute best.The best
thing a leader can do for a Great Group is to
allow its members to discover their greatness.
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Leaderships Mt Everestfree to do his or her
absolute best allow its members to discover
their greatness.
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Quests!
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The Leadership Types.
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2. Great Leaders on Snorting Steeds Are Important
but Great Talent Developers (Type I Leadership)
are the Bedrock of Organizations that Perform
Over the Long Haul.
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Whoops Jack didnt have a vision!
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3. But Then Again, There Are Times When This
Visionary (Type II Leadership) Stuff Actually
Works!
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A leader is a dealer in hope.Napoleon
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4. Find the Businesspeople! (Type III
Leadership)
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I.P.M. (Inspired Profit Mechanic)
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5. All Organizations Need the Golden Leadership
Triangle.
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The Golden Leadership Triangle (1) Talent
Fanatic (2) Creator-Visionary (3) Inspired
Profit Mechanic.
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6. Leadership Mantra 1 IT ALL DEPENDS!
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Renaissance Men are a snare, a myth, a
delusion!
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7. The Leader Is Rarely/Never the Best Performer.
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The Leadership Dance.
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8. Leaders SHOW UP!
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A body can pretend to care, but they cant
pretend to be there. Texas Bix Bender
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9. Leaders LOVE the MESS!
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If things seem under control, youre just not
going fast enough. Mario Andretti
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10. Leaders DO!
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We have a strategic plan. Its called doing
things. Herb Kelleher
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11. Leaders Re-do.
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If Microsoft is good at anything, its avoiding
the trap of worrying about criticism. Microsoft
fails constantly. Theyre eviscerated in public
for lousy products. Yet they persist, through
version after version, until they get something
good enough. Then they leverage the power theyve
gained in other markets to enforce their
standard.Seth Godin, Zooming
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12. BUT Leaders Know When to Wait.
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Tex Schramm The too hard box!
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13. Leaders Are Optimists.
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Hackneyed but none the less true LEADERS SEE
CUPS AS HALF FULL.
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Half-full Cups Ronald Reagan radiated an
almost transcendent happiness.Lou Cannon
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14. Leaders DELIVER!
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It is no use saying We are doing our best. You
have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
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15. BUT Leaders Are Realists/ Leaders Win
Through LOGISTICS!
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16. Leaders FOCUS!
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To Dont List
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17. Leaders Set CLEAR DESIGN SPECS.
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Danger S.I.O. (Strategic Initiative Overload)
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JackWorld/1_at_T (1) Neutron Jack. (Banish
bureaucracy.) (2) 1, 2 or out Jack. (Lead or
leave.) (3) Workout Jack. (Empowerment, GE
style.) (4) 6-Sigma Jack. (5) Internet Jack.
(Throughout) TALENT JACK!
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18. Leaders Send V-E-R-Y Clear Signals About
Design Specs!
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Ridin with Roger What have you done to
DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE quality in the last 90
days?
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If It Aint Broke Break It.
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19. Leaders FORGET!/Leaders DESTROY!
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ForgetgtLearnThe problem is never how to get
new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how
to get the old ones out.Dee Hock
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20. BUT Leaders Have to Deliver, So They Worry
About Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater.

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Damned If You Do, Damned If You Dont, Just
Plain Damned.Subtitle in the chapter, Own Up
to the Great Paradox Success Is the Product of
Deep Grooves/ Deep Grooves Destroy Adaptivity,
Liberation Management (1992)
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21. Leaders HONOR THE USURPERS.
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Saviors-in-WaitingDisgruntled
CustomersUpstart CompetitorsRogue
EmployeesFringe SuppliersWayne Burkan, Wide
Angle Vision
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22. Leaders Make Lotsa Mistakes and MAKE NO
BONES ABOUT IT!
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Fail faster. Succeed sooner.David Kelley/IDEO
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23. Leaders Make BIG MISTAKES!
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Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre
successes.Phil Daniels, Sydney exec
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Create.
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24. Leaders Know that THERES MORE TO LIFE THAN
LINE EXTENSIONS. Leaders Love to CREATE NEW
MARKETS.
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Acquisitions are about buying market share. Our
challenge is to create markets. There is a big
difference. Peter Job, CEO, Reuters

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25. Leaders Make Their Mark / Leaders Do
Stuff That Matters
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I never, ever thought of myself as a
businessman. I was interested in creating things
I would be proud of. Richard Branson
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Management has a lot to do with answers.
Leadership is a function of questions. And the
first question for a leader always is Who do we
intend to be? Not What are we going to do? but
Who do we intend to be? Max De Pree, Herman
Miller
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26. Leaders Push Their Organizations W-a-y Up the
Value-added/ Intellectual Capital Chain
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27. Leaders LOVE the New Technology!
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28. Needed? Type IV Leadership Technology
Dreamer-True Believer
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The Golden Leadership QUADRANGLE (1) Talent
Fanatic (2) Creator-Visionary (3) Inspired
Profit Mechanic (4) Technology Dreamer-True
Believer
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Talent.
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29. When It Comes to TALENT Leaders Always Go
Berserk!
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30. Leaders Dont Create Followers THEY CREATE
LEADERS!
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I start with the premise that the function of
leadership is to produce more leaders, not more
followers. Ralph Nader
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31. Leaders Win Followers Over
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PJ Coaching is winning players over.
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Passion.
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32. Leaders Sell PASSION!
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G.H. Create a cause, not a business.
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33. Leaders Know ENTHUSIASM BEGETS ENTHUSIASM!
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Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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BZ I am a Dispenser of Enthusiasm!
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34. Leaders Are in a Hurry
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We dont sell insurance anymore. We sell
speed. Peter Lewis, Progressive
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35. Leaders Focus on the SOFT STUFF!
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Soft Is Hard- ISOE
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Message Leadership is all about love! Passion,
Enthusiasms, Appetite for Life, Engagement,
Commitment, Great Causes Determination to Make
a Damn Difference, Shared Adventures, Bizarre
Failures, Growth, Insatiable Appetite for
Change.
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The Job of Leading.
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36. Leaders Know Its ALL SALES ALL THE TIME.
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TP If you dont LOVE SALES find another life.
(Dont pretend youre a leader.)
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37. Leaders LOVE POLITICS.
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TP If you dont LOVE POLITICS find another
life. (Dont pretend youre a leader.)
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38. But Leaders Also Break a Lot of China
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39. Leaders Give RESPECT!
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• It was much later that I realized Dads secret.
  He gained respect by giving it. He talked and
  listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring
  Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked
  and listened to a bishop or a college president.
  He was seriously interested in who you were and
  what you had to say. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot,
  Respect

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40. Leaders Say Thank You.
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The two most powerful things in existence a
kind word and a thoughtful gesture. Ken
Langone, CEO, Invemed Associates from Ronna
Lichtenberg, Its Not Business, Its Personal
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41. Leaders Are Curious.
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The Three Most Important Letters WHY?
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42. Leadership Is a Performance.
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It is necessary for the President to be the
nations No. 1 actor.FDR
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43. Leaders Are The Brand
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You must be the change you wish to see in the
world.Gandhi
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44. Leaders Have a GREAT STORY!
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A key perhaps the key to leadership is
the effective communication of a story.Howard
Gardner, Leading Minds An Anatomy of Leadership
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Leader Job 1Paint Portraits of Excellence!
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Introspection.
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45. Leaders Enjoy Leading.
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46. Leaders KNOW THEMSELVES.
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Individuals (would-be leaders) cannot engage in a
liberating mutual discovery process unless they
are comfortable with their own skin. (Leaders
who are not comfortable with themselves become
petty control freaks.)
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47. But Leaders have MENTORS.
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The Word According to TP Upon having the
Leadership Mantle placed upon ones head, he/she
shall never hear the unvarnished truth again!
(Therefore, she/he needs one faithful compatriot
to lay it on with no jelly.)
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48. Leaders Take Breaks.
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The End Game.
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49. Leaders ???
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Leadership is the PROCESS of ENGAGING PEOPLE in
CREATING a LEGACY of EXCELLENCE.
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LEADERS NEED TO BE THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR ON
ROLLER BLADES
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50. Leaders Go for Broke
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The greatest dangerfor most of usis not that
our aim istoo highand we miss it,but that it
istoo lowand we reach it.Michelangelo
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You cant behave in a calm, rational manner.
Youve got to be out there on the lunatic
fringe. Jack Welch