This man’s been in the news recently. Was he pushed or “ousted” (great word)? Was there a row? Has the HSBC Board lost it? After all two new chiefs come in as Mike, CEO, and Chairman Stephen Green both go to be replace by new Chairman, (who reported to Mike), CFO Doug Flint and new CEO, Head of Investment Banking at HSBC, Stephen Gulliver.
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I saw Kevin Spacey talk on the importance of the Arts at the Great Methodist Hall, Westminster to a packed, adoring audience. This was the week before the Chancellor’s announcement on the cuts of 29% with which Arts Secretary Jeremy Hunt seemed, bizarrely, rather pleased.
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Friedman is one of the most respected journalists and authors in the USA and is a three time Pulitzer Prize winner. This book is big in its ambition and its size and one of the best selling non-fiction books ever. It explains what has happened in the past two decades and why it’s happened. Given the scale of the achievement the synopsis will be done in two parts. This is Part One – why and what happened. In our recent lifetime the world has changed – completely.
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This came from a conference held at the glorious Tower Place East Building, HQ of Mercer – the big insurer. We had brilliant “meet and greet” from the hostesses. Mercer and customer service are joined at the hip. 92 women: 7 men and me (I only separate myself from them because I thought they were to the bristles on their chins pretty awful – didn’t want to be there, patronising and luddite. A kind of “there, there little lady” approach to life. I was so rude to some of them I may be uninsurable now.)
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Stan is the visionary and guru, Christopher the corporate guy from Ernst and Young and then Monitor, the consulting group. They argue we are living in a world that is like a night club with strobe lighting. A world where the intangibles of marketing and connectivity are the key as everyone can do the left brain stuff of getting the functionality right (viz. all cars work). The book is a thinly disguised list of ways to run a modern business…none the less it raises interesting issues.
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Leon Kreitzman is one of the current seers on time and our time-stressed society. This book is full of challenging thoughts but best of all is the way he reconciles globalisation with that last great frontier of night…there is no night except where you are. Suddenly you can regain charge by being a 24 hour person. The great thing about the book is it can help us avoid time-stress. And the implications on town planning and marketing are riveting. If getting attention is hard all day maybe it could be easier at night to a smaller but suggestible market in Asda.
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Tom Peters worked at McKinsey. He made his name writing “In Search of Excellence” with Robert Waterman. He is now the world famous speaker and ranter and provoker of thought. His books are rich in opinion, prejudice and anger that business has failed to keep up with a rapidly changing world. He quotes General Shinseko, in his more recent book “Re-Imagine”, who said “if you don’t like change you’ll like irrelevance even less.”
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This extraordinary man – polio crippled child with a spark that was spotted – to the world’s highest paid public speaker, specialising in education – believes we educate creativity out of children and that our educational system is mad. We have no idea what the world in 2040 will be like yet we’ve decided with utter certainty what the CEOs of 2040 need to be taught.
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Supposedly man’s greatest fear is public speaking. That’ll be in our next picture.
Steven Spielberg
The thesis is simple.
Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.
Malcolm Gladwell
This is a great read. Let’s hope I don’t have to compete with someone who reads it.
Lord Tim Bell Chairman of Chime Communications
And Tim is the best presenter I’ve ever seen. (Picture of him: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/tim_bell/profile.html)
STOP PRESS
The 3rd Edition of Brilliant Presentation is out in November 2011.
It’s a complete rewrite to reflect
It’s a better read. I hope everyone reads it so the art of presentation really hits new heights.
Richard Hall