!!! RANT Reading Re-Imagine - PART THREE

Last month, I expressed the frustration (in this entry and in this one) I’ve been having trying to read Tom Peters’ Re-Imagine. Tom’s book is more like Tom’s tome. Seriously, there is so much information to digest but without an index, Re-imagine is extremely challenging to read.

I asked if someone out there in the business blog world would be up to the task of indexing Re-imagine. Rich! answered the call. As it turns out, Rich! uses much of the content from Re-imagine in talks he gives.

So … click below to read Rich’s “Re-imagine Ah-Ha Moments”

Pg. 22
"Fighting the last war..." the best analogy for the battle the big corporations are facing today, using this analogy, the message always sinks in.

Pg. 25
"The five week plan" I'm currently struggling with a five-minute plan... THE FIVE YEAR PLAN IS OBSOLETE. It's also a cop-out as the fifth year is a carrot on a stick, it's always five years away.

Pg. 36
"Bees do it..." very relevant to a job I'm working on at the moment.

Pg. 68
"I want that damn book..." I always say that the customer isn't always right, that's BS. However, the customer always has the right. This talks to that.

Pg. 82
"Think..." I just love this.

Pg. 107
"Ribbon power" so true, yet so untapped.

Pg. 116
"What we sell..." It never ceases to amaze me how few of my customers understand what they're actually selling, specifically the banks.

Pg. 123
"Experience magnification" A great way of looking at things, and a great yard stick for your product. Missing Link works this way, and it's been effective for us.

Pg. 152
"Beauty contest" I'm implementing this at the moment with our quotes, I'm certain the results will be good.

Pg. 153
"Gaming the system" this is a challenge I give in talks I do, I think the sculptor analogy is brilliant.

Pgs. 198 - 200
Read these pages, if they don't increase your heart rate and getting you going then nothing will. I hate
mediocre success - it's for cowards.

Pg. 214
"outside-the-company thinking" Too many of the companies I deal with have taken their culture thing too far, it actually promotes a hive mind i.e. nothing new. I believe poorly run induction session are (partly) to blame here.

Pg. 231
"The point of a presentation..." I own a presentation company, this point is so true. I took a permanent marker, and before I knew what I was doing it, I wrote it on my office wall (I think I started something).

Pg. 259
'"Train train train" this figure scares me, but I believe it - if this is your company, be ashamed.

Pg. 264
"Where do good new ideas come from..." So true, yet lazy HR departments apply a cookie cutter approach.

Pg. 271
"Courtesy check" he's not wrong here, we men need to catch a wake up.

Chapter 22
A topic close to my heart, I'm busy with a book "Deaducation -- the downfall of higher education" lots of good stuff here.

Pg. 298
"the best swordsman" what a great, and true analogy.

Pg. 327
"There's a war on" I intend on winning.

Pg. 330
"Leaders forget" this is outstanding, it soon found a place on my wall.

Thanks for answering the call Rich!

Comments

[shannon]

Yeah, thanks Rich! & John. I really thought I was the only one in the whole wide world who was suffering from my determined struggle to soak up all Tom had to offer in Re-imagine!

[Rich...!]

haahaha, thanks for mending the spelling jonmoore, but it's actually "deaducation" (as in dead forms of education) "the downfall of hire education" (a play on words, where HR depts hire people purely based on certification, rather than attitude and aptitude)
It probably needs work though ;)