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Summary: WOW!!!
Review: "The Circle" was recommended to me by a colleauge just a few short weeks ago and I must say it has changed my life in a way I would not have thought possible. It has changed the way I look at my job, my customers, people in other service industries and life in general. I firmly believe that you would be hard pressed to not find some sort of nugget in this book that would make each and every one of you say "WOW!!! I never thought of this like that!?!?!" It is an awesome guide to business and to life, the only warning I have is to be careful if you decide to pick it up because it holds the power to forever change the way you do business or live life and if you aren't ready for the changes that will come they could be mindboggling. To all who choose to grab this and embrace it - I wish you Good Luck and hope it affects you in the same ways it has me.
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Summary: Information is the enemy of intelligence
Review: "Information is the enemy of intelligence. The answer? How about...systems?" So says Tom Peters in a book full of unsystematic information apparently designed for the short-attention span crowd. This is a "planar" book--great width and no depth.
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Summary: At the intersection of change and uncommon sense: Tom Peters
Review: Thinking of re-inventing yourself this year? Read this book. Why? In 15 chapters, Peters employs his uncommon sense in transforming the must-do trends of the 1990's into fodder for closing out the twenty-first century. Organizational learning is ground into organizational forgetting; the science of systems is grated into arguments for attitude and tapping the potential of the EQ. You get the picture: it's stuff you don't know about stuff you already know. Okay, but how does it read? Like The Pursuit of Wow!, The Circle of Innovation has graphic appeal that makes clear Peters' uncommon sense. Captions under the heading "B-I-G IDEA" pull out core themes; pictures convey the emotional thrust of the book, which is enthusiasm in warp speed; and various sized fonts offer explanation and challenge when read closely. But you've said nothing of the title, CIRCLE of INNOVATION. Each of the 15 chapters are intense planets of thought that orbit around a metaphoric sun of innovation. Like the sun's gravitational pull, innovation also pulls. It pulls through a compulsion to change, change substantially. So, how about it--ready for a change this year? Peters is ready to shake your universe!
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Summary: The bottom line-thought provoking starting points for change
Review: An easy read in presentation type format which makes no bones about what the key points are and how to get your organization to take note. As usual for Peters, many examples of organizations who "get it"! If you haven't read a good business book recently, make this the one you take the time to read!
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Summary: The Thinker's Book
Review: Another excellent work by Tom. This book goes beyond details and throws out wild and spontaneous thoughts for the success-hungry business person to devour!It's not a book for the average individual who wants to read to absorb information, and agree or disagree with the concepts. It's an impetus of thought provoking ideas that is meant to kick start the reader. This is to stimulate excitement and thinking of how to put the ideas to work for yourself. He does not show you in little details how to do it, but gives you the topic and lets you write the essay. He wants you to THINK, be imaginative, and set your own wheels into motion. If you are not an innovative thinker looking to succeed by letting your ambitions take off, then this book will probably scare you.
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Summary: Wow! Innovate the Tom Peters Way
Review: Be warned that if you like unusual formats, you'll find this book refreshing. If you hate anything unusual, you may not like this book. The Circle of Innovation is written in slide book form. This is the form that consultants use for seminars. Each exhibit that the seminar attendees will see is included, along with a page of script that covers the content of the exhibit. The result is highly enjoyable, as you vicariously imagine being in the room with Tom Peters, the world's most sought-after business speaker. The exhibits are wonderfully funny and evocative, and use all kinds of visual tricks to get and keep your attention. I had people all over the plane looking over my shoulder to see them, as I read the book on a recent flight. Tom Peters also walks his talk, and really lives with passion -- which strongly comes through in this book. His interpretations of the world are almost always tied to quotes from important thinkers and business leaders, which gives the book a relevance and immediacy that a more intellectual book would have lacked. I found this book to be very satisfying to read. It affected me at a very fundamental level, so I could tell that I was "getting" the message. The result is a most impressive example of a way to communicate through books. The principles seem to be sound in most cases (although not all markets are dominated by women purchasers -- such as boxing gloves, football tickets, Viagra, etc. -- but many are, such as cars), and they should stimulate your thinking to expand the scope of the innovations you think about. The book could have been improved with a consideration of processes that work better than others for getting the innovation work done. For that assistance, you will have to look elsewhere. In the meantime, do read, think about, enjoy, and apply the lessons of The Circle of Innovation. Another good book on innovation is Peter Drucker's Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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Summary: A Good Book
Review: But as Peter's says ... we can't belive everithing we hear without questioning it ... so, Tom i'm questioning your book right now ... I've enjouyed very much this book as all of Peter's books i'm a Tom Peter's fan and this is book express all the thoughts that i like about Tom Peter's. Thank you Amazon for letting me express my opinion on some titles.
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Summary: Decent reading
Review: Don't be overwhelmed by the size of this book. You can go through it rather quickly since most of the pages have graphical text - big fonts and just like PPT presentations. If you are not used to or don't like graphics and presentations, you may have a hard time with this book (as you can see from other reviews). But it is kind of a breakthough book in terms of the style.
Most of the ideas are very useful, most of the examples are very genuine in how it relates to the theory. For those who may be annoyed with the style of this book, my only request is, look beyond the style for the content or the gist.
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Summary: Tom's stories with tons of pictures. Gotta love it!!
Review: For the last fifteen years, Tom Peters has written a collection of "story books" illustrating the best (and sometimes the worst) management practices. For those of us that eat, drink and sleep this "TP stuff" (the books, workshops, seminars, audio cassettes, videos, etc)this book stands out. Photos, (worth a bunch of words), even circles and arrows and the stories. These are the stories that will be retold around the corporate campfires (watercoolers, chat rooms and board room tables) for years to come. For me Tom's books have always been a call to action, a wake up call to get up and do something, anything to move the business foward. The Circle of Innovation has less information than some of his earlier books, but it is more focused on a few important (and useful, today)ideas. Ideas that are so simple and obvious..."why didn't I think of that" Keep them coming Tom, you make a difference.
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Summary: If everybody thinks as Tom Peters, business would be easier.
Review: Global world...Global business... Tom Peter is very able to modify old mentalities and platforms well established by our black side of mind. That's really interesting how good ideas can call attention and destroy huge and old mentalities.
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