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Summary: Didn't Age Well
Review: In 1997, it appears, Tom Peters took a bunch of his PowerPoint slides and made them into a book. More power to him for coming up with another revenue stream.From the vantage point of late 2001, Peters does not in the volume appear genuinely innovative but rather highly sensitive to trends that were forming at the time. Useful, but a different skill. For true vision, more content, and more explanation on the process of thinking creatively I recommend Faith Popcorn and Eric Maisel.
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Summary: One of the best EVER.
Review: In short, this is one of the best 5 books I have EVER read. Absolutely stunning. Makes your heart race and imagination swirl.
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Summary: Kick out the Jams Mothers & Fathers
Review: Is it any wonder that the Baffler's Thomas Frank gives this super-guru such a hard time? Peters hijacks the 60s era rhetoric of revolution and creative mayhem and spins it into an ego stroker for the Palm Pilot and BMW set. So what if you manufacture overpriced paper cups for a living. You're in business and business is COOL! You're hip! You're CREATIVE! You're a REVOLUTIONARY. Destruction is cool too... but don't go smashing up the WTO or IMF. NO! Blow up your own organization! Be ineficient! Forget the rules! R-E-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N! Of course we all know this isn't a book for people burning to change the world, or for those already overflowing with creative energy. It's a self help book for execs who want to sell more paper cups, move to a better suburb and buy a new imported car. If that's you then buy it. It's fun. Go a little crazy and feel good about yourself. If it's not here's a B-I-G Idea: Forget it.
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Summary: Wonderful book, totally different reading experience.
Review: iT iS A wHOLE nEW aPPROACH tO cONTENT dESIGN. tOM uSES A lOT oF dIFFERENT kIND oF tYPEFACE aND pOINT sIZE tO eNPHASIZE oN tHE iMPORTANT pOINTS oF cERTAIN iDEAS. i cERTAINLY lOVE tHE sELECTIONS oF pHOTOS aND gRAPHICS wHICH gIVES tHE bOOK mORE dRAMA tO iLLUSTRATE tOM'S iDEA oF bEING dIFFERENT aND lOOK aT hIS sUCCESS, iT'S a bESTSELLER. wHAT mORE cAN i sAY. gREAT iDEA = yOU + iNNOVATION...sEE tHE dIFFERENCE! (: Regards Janet
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Summary: An Enjoyable and Informative Book
Review: Last week, my wife and I headed to the beach and as a looked in our library of hundreds of business books, this one screamed at me again. Yes, the books gets better the second time around. The book is very easy reading and contains alot of experience, you might even say "that's common sense, Tom". I'm sure he would agree but that's the point. This is not a step by step guide to the 21st century but rather a thought provoking book for anyone in business. Please add it to your collection. I only wished I had bought the tapes, then I could listen to it going to work every day.
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Summary: A Must read for all software marketeers and developers
Review: Peters excells in this thought provoking book on innovation. This book will cause you to re-think age old principals and ideas that are cemented into your thinking. Written, truely, like a Power Point presentation with exceptional visuals- a reader can review tid bits of the information at a time- with gaps of time imbetween. Great for busy execs that travel. This book WILL change the way you think. Great Job Tom Peters!
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Summary: Plenty of P. T. Barum pizazz, breaking all book 'rules'.
Review: Peters zeros in on innovation as the touchstone for success, along with a passionate presentation of fifteen other related ideas such as: distance is dead; destruction is cool; we are all Michelangelos; welcome to the white - collar revolution; the intermediary is doomed; and the system is the solution. The book's visual layout model's its theme which is - It is the end of the world as we know it, so whatever made you successful in the past won't in the future. What, then, can you do? The answer is...innovation! This is another WOW book, exuding the excitement and novelty that makes Tom Peters, himself, a living example of what he passionately and entertainingly writes about. Peters delivers content in a form that breaks all book 'rules,' using a plethora of P. T. Barnum pizazz. Among business books, that's innovative! I don't think Peters expects or wants you to read this book, but to experience it. It is a bit more like a roller-coaster than a book, with zigs and zag! s and lots of zip. Still, for all its flare, this is not a ground-breaking work, falling short of Peters' Liberation Management.
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Summary: better as a seminar
Review: Peters' book is full of ideas which are barely supported, but by his constant reminder that he once worked for one of the premier management consulting firms in the world. His delivery matches that description perfectly. The sleeve of the book touts revelations on HOW to accomplish his ideas. However he never gets around to implementation tactics, just idea creation. That's a good start, but a bit misleading As I listened to this book, rather than reading it, I must say that having a visual to follow along with would have been more helpful. The ideas are great, but would be better used as a 'rah rah' seminar for managers rather than a working text. Once you understand that the book will only provided concepts at a high level, the book is an enjoyable light read (or listen).
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Summary: There are better business books available
Review: Save your money because there are far better business books available. I purchased Tom Peters' Circle of Innovation based on the recommendation from a business associate. As soon as the book arrived I realized that I had wasted nearly $25.00. Tom Peters saw an opportunity and has packaged his business notes in order to earn another million. There are few new thoughts in the book. The writing style is breathless like the evening news, and the graphical presentation is similar to a comic book. Other business books are far better. Tom Peters, with his top-tier business school and consulting credentials, may claim to understand enterprise but Tom Peters needs to get his hands dirty with honest experience. Other authors such as Ricardo Semler in Maverick actually accomplished what Tom Peters discusses. Instead of reading Tom Peters talk about change and the future, read Ricardo Semler describing implementing actual change in a company. And then look out if a compa! ny following Semler's ideas decides to compete in your industry. Tom Peters has great promise, but I believe that he needs actual business experience to complete his resume. He appears to lack the commitment, passion, and the deeper understanding that can only come from actually implementing ideas and living with the results and the criticism. After reading Circle of Innovation, my one overriding desire was to ask Mr. Peters for a full price refund.
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Summary: READ THE HOTTEST SEMINAR IN THE WORLD TO INNOVATE
Review: 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 cerebral 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 -- 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.
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