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See more jobs from the same poster ) Industry Accounting Function Litigation Location City not disclosed, TX Position Level Experienced Position Type Full Time Salary No Information Given Benefits/Compensation Package Benefits We representtjpet@aol.com February 21st, 2007
About three days from now, if history is a teacher, coach Skip Kenney will chalk up his 26th (TWENTY-SIX!) consecutive Pac 10 swimming championship. When he won #14, legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden made the presentation—Kenney had broken coach Wooden's Pac 10 consecutive championship record. At 25 in a row, Kenney's feat stands alone in the annals of NCAA records—and the Pac 10 is as competitive-tough a playground (pool) as exists.
The current issue of Stanford's alumni magazine, which tells us that Ronald Reagan was in his first term when the streak started, features Kenney in an article titled "Master Stroke." It more or less begins this way: "The first thing you need to know about Skip Kenney, the 63-year-old coach of the Stanford men's swim team, is that he never swam competitively. Since he arrived at Stanford in 1979, Kenney has won seven NCAA titles, coached 100 different All-Americans, served on three Olympic staffs and won an astonishing 25 Pac-10 titles in a row. A generation-spanning community of swimmers and former swimmers would all 'lie down in traffic for him,' according to one, Adam Messner, class of 2001. But he has never swum a 3000 for time, never churned out 100 kicks on 90-second intervals, never spent so much as an hour with his face in the water, staring at the black line. 'I can't even imagine,' he says."
Kenney's secret, if you must call it that, is turning an individualistic sport into a team sport—no mean feat. Every team member is evaluated first and foremost, the article says, on his special contribution to the team.
Hats off to a performance and a process that defines Excellence—and as a Stanford alum, good luck this weekend!
Posted by Tom Peters | Comments?tjpet@aol.com February 21st, 2007
Susan and I spent 3 days in New Zealand on the fabled Routeburn Track, arguably one of the world's great treks. (She was antelope, I was ... whatever.) I'd say "I couldn't have made it without my trusty Leki pole," but as you'll see below (photo credit to Susan Sargent), it let me down mid-trek. We've reported it to the manufacturer.
tjpet@aol.com February 21st, 2007
VNU Expositions presents the National Jeweler Network's CEO Summit in Atlanta, GA, today, and Tom is there to talk about Excellence. If you were in attendence, let us know about the event in our comments. We'd love to hear from you. If you'd like to download the PPT from the event, you can use this link:
National Jeweler Network's CEO Summit
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Some people don't like this type of software. Here are some ways to help employees get with the program.SmartBiz RSS FEED February 20th, 2007
There are many ways to fight spam, perhaps because none do the job completely. Here are the leading approaches-and the strengths and weakness of each.SmartBiz RSS FEED February 20th, 2007
Whether or not your business is unique enough to make it onto Larry King or Oprah, the first step is to attract attention closer to home. Whether or not Hollywood (or Atlanta and Chicago) calls, local and regional coverage is a great thing.SmartBiz RSS FEED February 20th, 2007
Whether or not your business is unique enough to make it onto Larry King or Oprah, the first step is to attract attention closer to home. Whether or not Hollywood (or Atlanta and Chicago) calls, local and regional coverage is a great thing.SmartBiz RSS FEED February 20th, 2007
ERP can seem overwhelming to a small business person. For those willing to work through the issues, however, the approach can reduce costs significantly. Here are five key steps.tjpet@aol.com February 20th, 2007
"Mr Thank You Note" (me) is indeed remiss in thanking all of my colleagues who Posted while I was away. From the number of comments and quality of comments, let alone the content, it seems to have been a smashing success!
Hooray!
Thank you!
(Rick Semler, management guru and Semco [Brazil] founder, once offered a revision of MBWA/Managing By Walking Around. His MBWA was Managing By Walking Away. He almost religiously took a 6-week vacation in a place where he couldn't be reached (ever more difficult). His logic: Only by being truly out of touch could he truly delegate. I like that. And that's what seems to have occurred here. My colleagues, in the absence of Old Motormouth, outdid themselves!!! Well, New Zealand is on the planning boards already for January 2008.)
(A little more New Zealand below.)
tjpet@aol.com February 20th, 2007
A few days ago I mentioned a new-to-me book, One: The Art and Practice of Conscious Leadership, by Manpower Inc. founder Lance Secretan. Recall: Consider: "What would happen if we looked at a customer and saw the face of God in them? To most people it sounds like a lofty idea. But if you see the face of God in a flower, why wouldn't you see it in the face of a customer?" (My interpretation, by the way, was that "God" per se need not be/is not the point—but, more generally, the idea that each person we come in contact with is an extraordinary & precious human being in his or her own right.) (More Secretan: "What is important is not whether I'm remembered, but that I do my best every day. I want to be the person my dog thinks I am.")
Then I came across "just another manuscript" ... but wait. I was hooked (hook, line, and sinker) by the title alone. Adecco exec Steve Harrison offers The Manager's Book of Decencies: How Small Gestures Build Great Companies.
Yes!
Yes!
Yes!
As I said in the fawning blurb I provided, the book is worth twice the cover price for the title alone! The innards live up to the outwards. Stories galore, suggestions galore. Among many other things, Mr Harrison insists, correctly in my view, that you can "smell" a "culture of decency" (or the absence thereof) in but a moment.* He adds that it's one helluva competitive advantage—and if you don't pull it off, at the very least you'll feel better about yourself.
[*This holds for a job interview—both ways. And for a 3-person team or solo contributor as much as for an enormous corporation. And for ... And for ...]
Decency as the heart of managing.
Yes!
Yes!
Yes!
Add to the pile my very recent rediscovery of Robert Greenleaf's Servant Leadership ... and you have a trend!
The face of God in a customer.
Decency.
Chief as Servant-in-Chief.
tjpet@aol.com February 20th, 2007
"Costco figured out the big, simple things—and executed with total fanaticism."—Charles Munger, Berkshire Hathaway (Barron's, 12 Feb)
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