Pursuing Excellence in a Disruptive Age

Contrasts of Leadership Then and Now

From “Changing” people - To Charging (up) people
From Command and Control - To Creation of “content”
From Think big thoughts - To Do bold deeds
From Plan, Plan, Plan - To Play, Play, Play
From Serenely aloof - To Stubbornly angry
From “I don’t care” (“…what you think”) - To “I don’t know” (“…all the answers”)
From “Transforming” People - To Transferring opportunity
From Doing it all (leadership as mystique)- To Delegating (leadership as mastery)
From The “plan clan” - To The “action faction”
From Worrying about one’s image - To Working one’s imagination
From Pure logic - To Pure logistics
From “Correcting” people - To “Connecting” people
From Leader as “wise man” - To Leader as “whys man”
From Presiding - To Pushing
From Leading for the long haul - To Leading with a long shot
From Making a “killing” - To Making a mark

Tom Peters "The Essentials Series adapted from Re-Imagine!"