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Tom Peters's Tweet Book tom_peters's Tweet Book By Tom Peters. tom_peters Tom Peters author, speaker, professional agitator Vermont http://www.tompeters.com All content © Tom Peters. All rights reserved. 2010 December Sunday, 5th of December. 11:33:08 @davewheeler44 He is a tough mother, and introduced/re-introduced a tough culture of accountability. 11:33:50 @davewheeler44 And, yes, he was also a good financial engineer. 11:34:17 @sandraschubert Lemme know when you find it :-) 11:41:53 @gregory_kramer Even if others theoretically right, do we want Paulson+ trt survival global econ as dispassionate experiment to test theory? 11:47:02 "The man who can't imagine a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot."--Andre Breton (from "The Art of Looking Sideways") 11:50:41 "Good design is good business."--Thomas Watson (SJobs didn't "invent" design in tech products! IBM, Deere, etc beat Apple by decades.) 11:52:23 "There is no such thing a a pretty goog omlette."--French proverb (EXCELLENCE rules!--tom peters proverb 12:00:03 @HerzogIND Nope, I'll look for it. 12:03:03 @HerzogIND Seminars long ago: CEOs love rattle on macro-economics. (Not threatening.) Clam up if topic is Quality of own customer service. 12:05:16 @Billy_Cox I think so. I just re-discovered it on my book shelf, while cleaning up pre Christmas guests. 12:06:43 @xBora Total unmitigated bullshit. 12:08:55 @HerzogIND Thanks! 12:11:58 @xBora I guess I have a problem with idea of getting up early tomorrow with the hope that I'll do "good enough" work during the coming day. 12:12:36 @xBora Excellence. Period. Though you may not get there. Ever. 12:13:29 @xBora Though they have made numerous subsequent adjustments, Apple has yet to release a "good enough" product. 12:15:14 @xBora I've written 16 books. Each one absolute best I could do at the time. (Even, though, of course, I often later "wish I'd said ...") 12:16:32 @xBora Toyota changed course to the "good enough" path--and have lived to rue the day. 12:19:23 @IdeaGov Seems "mashing" is the newby word for ye olde creativity. Creativity = Hookin' together stuff that doesn't obviouly hook together. 12:22:04 @xBora Dare you to walk up to Steve Jobs and tell him the 1st release iPhone was not an excellent product. (Pray that he's not armed.) page 3 / 136 tom_peters's Tweetbook 5-December-2010 12:25:10 @xBora I repeat: To me, "good enough" sucks as life philosophy, though I never imagine for second that I'll actually "achieve" excelleence. 12:26:36 @xBora "Good enough" is a shitty Tweeting standard. (Even though I admit to more than a couple "good enough" tweets among my 8K.) 12:29:10 @xBora Yes! 12:30:31 RT @ChuckBlakeman: Your Competition, Isn’t. http://ff.im/uIgX3 12:32:03 @ChuckBlakeman Loved this with one addenda. I have one ferocious dirty-playing competitor: Me. And my personal standard of excellence. 12:33:49 @xBora Less depressing than releasing a "good enough" product :-) 12:35:52 @xBora What follows is arrogant, for which I apolgize. Fact: I don't give a damn what anybody else thinks about the "utility" of excellence. 12:37:52 @kevindaug_herty Who gets what wrong???? 12:38:26 @xBora And I as well ... 16:39:00 I rarely recommend movies (not my remit), but "Seducing Dr. Lewis," a Canadian film set in Nova Scotia, is as goods as it gets by my lights. 16:40:29 @kissdaskii Not at all!! Everything can be improved! Excellence is a moving target. 16:41:47 @kevindaug_herty I'd agree, but a large number of folks act as if great design started with Apple. 16:42:57 @kissdaskii But they worked closely, starting in the '50s I believe, with world's best industrial designers. 16:56:50 @DavePetroziello Sorry, my wife told me Nova Scotia! 16:57:43 @business901 But I said "baloney" in a long series of tweets! 16:58:46 @AmityFoundation Whoops, was just informed it's end-of-the-earth Quebec, not Nova Scotia. Monday, 6th of December. 08:44:02 @craignewmark I always found damp 38 in SF colder than 10 or 20 in Vermont! (Plus permanent cough my doc called "San Francisco bronchitis.") 08:44:35 @gerald_d He? Who? Me? (Thx) 08:45:04 @marketingisus We are indeed! 08:47:01 @marketingisus "The Power of Design: A Force for Transforming Everything," by Richard Farson. Great book! 08:48:40 "All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness."--Tennessee Williams. Wow--and I'd be hard pressed to dismiss this. 08:51:52 @SBSurvival Me too! Whoops, I mean me too re me on the list. 08:55:16 @davewheeler44 Gerstner effectively decided there was big business in integrating all one-off tools IBM had sold customer over the years. 08:55:59 @kissdaskii That's absolutely true. 08:56:59 @kissdaskii Speaking as an ex Fortran programmer ... 08:58:45 @business901 Yeah, the tweet you attributed to me was in fact the tweet that set me off on a series of intemperate rants :-) 08:59:52 @business901 Bottom lie: Excellence or die. Period. Death far preferable to failure to aspire to page 4 / 136 tom_peters's Tweetbook 6-December-2010 excellence :-) 09:00:56 @DavePetroziello Should have been a huge hit everywhere. It is a great movie, period. 09:01:43 @DavePetroziello Reminded me of some of the old fishing villages in Maine and Cornwall area in England. 09:03:27 @DavePetroziello I guess it hit close to home since I live in an area where dairy farms have gone frrom about 15,000 to 1,500. 09:05:51 @DavePetroziello I'm still appaled. Montreal imy closest big city. In north VT, signs turn to English & French about 20 miles from border. 09:07:08 @alf2021 Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 09:34:44 @RichardPosey As long as they see it that way, and their bosses see it that way, and they behave accordingly! 09:35:17 @jvonneumann Crap. 09:35:47 @RichardPosey Will check them out. Thanks! 10:16:23 @business901 I guess it's "bottom line," as opposed to bottom lie" :-) 10:16:55 @business901 Yeah, I'd think it would! Thanks for tracking me! 12:43:27 Good managers matter. In 4 years Stanford football coach Jim Harbaugh took Stanford from 1-11 to 11-1, ranked #4 with a BCS bowl spot. 12:47:33 @mohammedqadadeh You must therefore do 100 fingertip pushups in front of your staff :-) 14:06:24 RT @veryuseful: @Tom_Peters and ADM Stavridis must be doing some kind of mind-meld on cross-functional/cross-cultural collaboration http ... 14:06:37 @veryuseful Fantastic! 14:09:14 @MurthaMike Frankly, makes it more impressive. When he went recruiting, all he had to sell initially was a 1-11 record & his faith. 14:09:53 @jamiemiller74 Apparently he's staying with the Cardinal. 14:10:49 @mitchblue_RD You can hope, brother, not me. I vote: Fly with the Cardinal who brung ya. 14:12:05 @Anglisy Enthusiasm and organizing skills and appreiation of under-valued talent. 14:12:59 @ChuckBlakeman But you are smart, smart enough to know relentless beats smart. 14:14:00 Dandy Don is Done. Alas. 14:48:14 @consultingmania Samuel Beckett: "Fail. Fail again. Fail better." High-tech exec/PA: "Fail. Forward. Fast." 14:49:02 @consultingmania David Kelley, IDEO: "Fail faster. Succeed sooner." 14:49:52 @consultingmania Phil Daniels, Aussie exec: "Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes." 14:52:17 @consultingmania Mike Bloomberg: "If people tell me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to try a different mountain.” 17:19:18 @martijnsjoorda To me, by definition, it's never attainable, as in "I got to excellence;" "phew." 17:20:06 @martijnsjoorda Moreover, where you think you're heading is rarely where you end up. Tuesday, 7th of December. 08:38:39 Utter disgust = My reaction to Vanity Fair's "Deadly Medicine," on unregulated, outsourced 3rd world clinical drug trials. page 5 / 136 tom_peters's Tweetbook 7-December-2010 08:40:20 Utter disgust = My reaction to the pharma industry's plugging uses for drugs unrelated to what the drug was designed to do. 08:44:43 Hospitals kill HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS/lousy safety practices. Drugs un-necessarily kill HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS . A pox on whole damn industry. 08:46:09 Vanity Fair expose on deadly clinical trials practices. by Donald Barlett, James Steele--peerless investigative reporters. 08:47:00 If you can read "Deadly Medicine" and not barf, you are a strong person. 08:48:35 Utter disgust = My reaction to 200,000 deaths annually in the USA caused by prescription drugs. 08:49:18 @JoelHeffner And it may be a close race! 08:51:05 Mr Obama should read the VF article "Deadly Medicine," and fire all occupants of the first 5 levels of management at the FDA. 08:53:14 @SocialSea If the airline industry was 0.01% as incompetent as healthcare practitioners, I'd have died in a crash 40 years or so ago. 08:55:08 Airlines annoy the hell out of me. But airline safety practices are astoundingly good! (Knock on wood, flying tomorrow.) 08:56:38 @T_Penney Poor clinical trials. Poor manufacturing. Poor prescribing. Only thing not poor are pharma execs. 08:58:50 I am not so flakey as to be swayed by one article. Been studying this stuff 10+ years. This VF article simply most graphic. 09:00:18 Vanity Fair drug trial article makes LeCarre's "Constant Gardner" look tame tame tame.
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