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Summary: PETERS PUTS PUNCH & PANACHE INTO THESE PASSION-FILLED PAGES.
Review: A collection of creative and thought-provoking ideas and action-steps for turning your job, however ordinary, into an extraordinary experience and springboard for future career success. Stimulating, inventive, lively, fast-reading! Peters puts punch and panache into these passion-filled pages! Highly recommended. Reviewed by Gerry Stern, founder, Stern & Associates, author of Stern's Sourcefinder: The Master Directory to HR and Business Management Information & Resources, Stern's CyberSpace SourceFinder, and Stern's Compensation and Benefits SourceFinder.
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Summary: WOW - What a waste of trees!
Review: After opening the book, I thought Mickey Mouse himself wrote it. Terrible structure, schizophrenic font types, incoherent thoughts, and the like crowd this waste of time. There are a couple phrases that will make you laugh or think in the first 50 pages or so, but after that it's a total waste (not that the first 50 pages are worth reading either). Tom begins by explaining how you can use these principles for any "project" large or small. As soon as you enter the second section of the book, that's all out the window and the book is pretty much useless. Save your money and your time. Read something else. Anything else.
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Summary: Reinvigorate your vision for your work
Review: As a multimedia software writer/producer, I thought my projects were pretty hot stuff. That might be true, but reading "The Project 50" sent me on a quest for the fabled "way cool" moniker for every project I do.In this practical and outrageously optimistic book, Peters makes a clarion call for work that matters, that takes your breath away--that, in short, WOWs not only your clients/customers but everyone who sees what you do. With 50 suggestions (each with a number of action items) for creating WOW projects, Peters stirs a divine dissatisfaction for business-as-usual. "Good enough" work no longer is--and will soon be the death knell of its practitioners. With characteristic bullets, colors, UPPER CASE PHRASES, and underlines, Peters confronts us with the challenge of the near-future: Making the most of the new millennium will require nothing else than producing WOW projects--whether they be spread sheets or theme parks. This book reinvigorated me and recast my vision for the future--so much so that I bought copies for my fellow writer/producers. Read it and you'll see why.
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Summary: Reinvigorate your vision for your work
Review: As a multimedia software writer/producer, I thought my projects were pretty hot stuff. That might be true, but reading "The Project 50" sent me on a quest for the fabled "way cool" moniker for every project I do. In this practical and outrageously optimistic book, Peters makes a clarion call for work that matters, that takes your breath away--that, in short, WOWs not only your clients/customers but everyone who sees what you do. With 50 suggestions (each with a number of action items) for creating WOW projects, Peters stirs a divine dissatisfaction for business-as-usual. "Good enough" work no longer is--and will soon be the death knell of its practitioners. With characteristic bullets, colors, UPPER CASE PHRASES, and underlines, Peters confronts us with the challenge of the near-future: Making the most of the new millennium will require nothing else than producing WOW projects--whether they be spread sheets or theme parks. This book reinvigorated me and recast my vision for the future--so much so that I bought copies for my fellow writer/producers. Read it and you'll see why.
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Summary: Vintage Tom!
Review: As usual, Tom Peters takes an irreverant approach to normal,mundane things like business projects. You're nominated to clean upafter the big party? No sweat--turn it into a redecorating process, or team-building exercise. Great thoughts about reframing everyday, normal business projects into something that can be resumed!
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Summary: Fantastic (and not a minute too soon, either)
Review: I have just finished reading this book and its two companions. Don't buy this book -- buy all three instead. As you will see, I gave the other two five stars and must do likewise in this case. Project-50 is the kind of book you keep in your briefcase, backpack, or whatever, to call upon frequently for ideas and energy. The content and presentation of this book make it the most valuable work tool you might ever own. I am dead serious about this. As a consultant, I see a lot of people who get burned-out working on crappy, nowhere projects. If this book doesn't help you turn that key project into a real winner that other people "chomp at the bit" to get involved in, it's most likely that the scutter wasn't goin' anywhere to begin with!
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Summary: WOW! This is a lot of WOW material.
Review: I must say that this book is packed with insightful tips on how to truly create "WOW!" work. Peters is truly adapt at bringing successful theories into every day practices that can be implemented to succeed. However, I did feel that this probably could have stopped at 20 or 25? It seemed that the books was continually stocked full of lists of things to do. If Peters truly wants to have his practices/theories implemented, he is going to have to break it down to maybe the top 10. Make one or two TTD at the conclusion of the book. Overall, I feel that the reader will leave with useful information, and with a slight feeling of being overwhelmed.
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Summary: WOW! This is a lot of WOW material.
Review: I must say that this book is packed with insightful tips on how to truly create "WOW!" work. Peters is truly adapt at bringing successful theories into every day practices that can be implemented to succeed. However, I did feel that this probably could have stopped at 20 or 25? It seemed that the books was continually stocked full of lists of things to do. If Peters truly wants to have his practices/theories implemented, he is going to have to break it down to maybe the top 10. Make one or two TTD at the conclusion of the book. Overall, I feel that the reader will leave with useful information, and with a slight feeling of being overwhelmed.
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Summary: Tom Peters at his Best
Review: I'll start by saying I'm not a huge Tom Peters fan. I've read most of his books and he's helped my career alot, but he's just kinda weird. This book is by far, imo, his best. It's timely and relevant and has tons and tons of useful information. In fact, it should be a blueprint of the way to work with projects.
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Summary: Lots of WOW information--but too drawn out
Review: I've read the first book in the series "Brand You" and am starting "Professional Service Firms" because I like the way Tom Peters thinks and presents his material. However, this book, "The Project" has the same Peters quality--but his 50-List could have been shrunk to 20--it seemed as though he was just trying to meet the 50-List title in the book series. His material focuses on the small project--you take it on--and you are still taking on a thread of of the organizations DNA/culture. I would still buy the book--it will just be a quick read for you.
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