Issue Y2K The Great War for Talent!

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Welcome to Tom Peters
PowerPoint World! Beyond the set of slides
here, you will find at tompeters.com the last
eight years of presentations, a basketful of
Special Presentations, and, above all, Toms
constantly updated Master Presentationfrom which
most of the slides in this presentation are
drawn. There are about 3,500 slides in the 7-part
Master Presentation. The first five chapters
constitute the main argument Part I is context.
Part II is devoted entirely to innovationthe
sine qua non, as perhaps never before, of
survival. In earlier incarnations of the
master, innovation stuff was scattered
throughout the presentationnow it is front and
center and a stand-alone. Part III is a
variation on the innovation themebut it is
organized to examine the imperative (for most
everyone in the developed-emerging world) of an
ultra high value-added strategy. A value-added
ladder (the ladder configuration lifted with
gratitude from Joe Pine and Jim Gilmores
Experience Economy) lays out a specific logic for
necessarily leaving commodity-like goods and
services in the dust. Part IV argues that in
this age of micro-marketing there are two
macro-markets of astounding size that are
dramatically under-attended by all but a few
namely women and boomers-geezers. Part V
underpins the overall argument with the necessary
bedrockTalent, with brief consideration of
Education Healthcare. Part VI examines
Leadership for turbulent times from several
angles. Part VII is a collection of a dozen
Listssuch as Toms Irreducible 209, 209
things Ive learned along the way. Enjoy!
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The Checklist The Power of a Blinding Flash of
the Obvious!Tom Peters/11 December 2007
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90K in ICU on any given day178 steps/day50
serious complicationSource Atul Gawande,
The Checklist (New Yorker, 1210.07)
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Peter Pronovost, Johns Hopkins,
2001Checklist, line infections1/3rd at
least one errorNurses/permission to stop
procedure1 year/10-day line-infection rate
11 to 0 (43 infections, 8 deaths, 2M saved)
Source Atul Gawande, The Checklist (New
Yorker, 1210.07)
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Docs, nurses make own checklists on whatever
process-procedure they chooseWithin weeks,
average stay in ICU down 50Source Atul
Gawande, The Checklist (New Yorker, 1210.07)
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Replicate in Inner City Detroit (resource
strapped, staff cut 1/3rd, poorest patients
in USA)Nurses QBProject managerExec
involvement (help with little thingsits all
little things)Blues, small bonuses for
participating6 months, 66 decrease in
infection rate USA bottom 25 to top
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Yorker, 1210.07)
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Pronovost is focused on work that is not
normally considered a significant contribution in
academic medicine. As a result, few others are
venturing to extend his achievements. Yet his
work has already saved more lives than that of
any laboratory scientist in the last decade.
Atul Gawande, The Checklist (New Yorker,
1210.07)
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Beware of the tyranny of making Small Changes to
Small Things. Rather, make Big Changes to Big
Things. Roger Enrico, former Chairman, PepsiCo
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Beware of the tyranny of making Small Changes
to Small Things. Rather, make Big Changes to Big
Things using Small, Almost Invisible Levers
with Big Systemic Impact. TP
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The Checklist!