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Summary: Popping with ideas
Review: Tom Peters has more ideas in his little pinky that most business writers have in their book + sequel. That's because he draws on a wide range of sources, he's genuinely open-minded, and he cares so much about what he writes about. The result is a book that spills over with ideas, quotes, advice, rants, and questions. You'd rather read some pathetic business book with a single idea flogged across 250 pages? Nah, this book re-imagines business books. And if all of this is "old hat" to you, then why are your management ranks still dominated by men, why does your web site suck so bad, and why is your product's design so safe and boring?
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Summary: Dreadful
Review: I was surprised to see one of the reviewers claim that people who don't like this book must be old. I'm a twenty-four year old MBA student, and I thought this book was old material. If the reviewer thinks this is trendy textbook material, he's mistaken.I'm not sure why the author chose not to make a serious effort to do current research and present new material, but this book wasn't worth the price. I want my money back.
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Summary: Listen up or be out-sourced to unemployment
Review: Tom makes his points by moving to an aggressive publisher that freely prints his exclamation points and aggressive red ink. The content repeated a lot of what he has said before, but most of it was somewhat more focused and deserved being repeating anyway. This would be good book to supply with an accompanying DVD to get the full impact of Mr. Peter's enthusiasm. The references to white-collar jobs being replaced by a cheap microprocessors or cheap labor was right on the mark. Thoughts were freely borrowed from others such as Pink's "Free Agent Nation," but that's ok. The lists of sources referenced throughout the book were worth the price of the book. It reminded me a bit of reading about the sources of tools in the Whole Earth Catalog in the old days. Overall re-imagine is a timely, relevant, thought provoking, and well-reasoned call to action (consider the points or suffer the consequences).
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Summary: Once More, With Feeling!
Review: As someone who entered the working world around the same time that Fast Company did, I'm reading Tom Peters's new book as a textbook on how to grow old forcefully. Business writing generally doesn't interest me-too many common sense, narrow-focused ideas-but Peters's trend-driven, thematic approach to innovation is invigorating. I don't agree with everything he has to say, but I agree with his central objective: to think about work, life, and ideas differently, by applying a fresh perspective that incorporates what we know about the way the world is changing. Also, reviewers who are bothered by the design of the book are showing their age. Peters's book looks a lot like the sidebar-saturated textbooks that make up current college curricula, but with a visual variety that promises to capture the scatter-shot attention of a video-literate media-junkie. Sure, he overdoes it on the blown-up quotes and the ellipses, but he's trying to act on his own advice, to change the way he presents his ideas in the context of new technology and a changing culture.
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Summary: Re-call!
Review: It seems people either love or hate this book. I fall into the former category. This material is very old and hasn't incorporated latest studies. It is the same material as in Tom Peter's other books, and what little is new, isn't insightful. "The internet changes everything." Not worth the read. The layout may be original, but it is a bad idea. Tom, it's time for a Re-think!
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Summary: Wake Up Call or Requiem YOU CHOOSE!
Review: Insightful, Provocative, Alarming, Entertaining, and Empowering are just a few of the choice adjectives I'd use to describe this book. In Re-Imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age, Tom Peters delivers with eloquence and BRUTE FORCE multiple, timely RANTS for anyone trying to get their arms (or mind) around this CHAOTIC period in our history. This dynamic volume will POKE, prod, CAJOLE, and SHOVE its readers to do something (ANYTHING) to save their languishing institutions! Peters sights countless sources supporting his observations. Re-Imagine! doesn't deliver, cookie cutter, off the shelf solutions to sanitary, mundane scenarios ... rather, it cuts to the core of the inexplicable angst, leaders feel in business today. It is the most innovative business book I've EVER...SEEN...or READ, both in content and design. Dorling Kindersley's handling of Peters' material makes it even more dramatic and riveting. Using its very "visual" representation to reinforce the power behind the words. This new Peters' MANIFESTO is indispensable intelligence for ANYONE who has a stake in the SURVIVAL of their enterprise! Will it serve as a wake up call or a requiem for yet another beleaguered organization? THE CHOICE IS YOURS! Buy this book, read it, send an anonymous copy to your boss's boss, and decide for yourself. I LOVED THIS BOOK.
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Summary: All I can say is Wow!
Review: The colors, the design, the ideas behind it, WOW! This book is in true Tom Peters' form. For those that believe this book is a regurgitated version of his other books, must not be reading the book. True Tom has stuck with some original ideas, but in no way is this anything like we have seen before. I loved it. Can't wait for the next one.
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Summary: Like it's author: loud, obnoxious, & impossible to ignore!
Review: I don't care what the other reviews on this page say -- I enjoyed the book and find the content stimulating. You may not always agree with him (Peters) but, dammit the man has an opinion and isn't afraid to shout it to the world, with exclamation points to boot!! Sure, some of the contents revisit information shared in earlier books, but the opinions are updated (Pursuit of WOW was published in 1994 and Circle of Innovation in 1999 -- you don't think he has a few things to add since then?) The design IS ecletic and frenetic (kind of the way I picture Peters' brain firing synapses and sharing rapid-fire opinion and theory mixed with facts and best-practice examples), but I think it matches the message -- these times are chaotic and if you can't keep up, you're going to get trampled.
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Summary: I looked at it at the bookstore and had to re-shelve it - 2x
Review: I browsed this book twice... and both times the loud graphics and layout gave me a headache. The formatting is just out of this world... or totally off the page. The content is hard to fathom. I don't see any point or consistency. The exclamation marks were everywhere!!!!! which is classical Tom Peters style. I guess you could say this book was over the top. However, the quality of printing and the paper were very nice. John Dunbar
Sugar Land, TX
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Summary: Recycle!
Review: The layout of this book is irritating. Colors, pictures, full pages with one sentence hopeful sound bites - the only thing missing was the crayon. I wouldn't have minded the layout so much if the material were fresh or even well presented. If you read the following you can skip the book: "Smell the dream." "The internet will change everything." "Honor roll students will be working for the kids who didn't make the honor roll." "Companies have to re-imagine or reinvent themselves." "Women are wired differently than men because they would design washing machines on the second floor of homes near the kids room (perhaps because they do the laundry - Mr. Peters - an insight they'd trade for less drudgery and better pay any day)." "Women buy everything (unsupported by hard statistics for luxury automobiles, SUVs, other autos, VCR's, flat screen televisions, computers, and more)." "Incrementalism is bad; make big changes - followed by 'twenty women as head of Fortune 500 companies by 2020' (there are now eight)." "Harley Davidson doesn't sell motorcycles; it sells a lifestyle." There you have it, old material with all of its consistencies. There is good work being done at major graduate business schools on this topic, but this isn't it.
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