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August 27, 2004
Tom Peters on Calendars
Tom Peters, who just turned 60 this year and wants you to know it, has a " 60 TIBs (Things I Believe) " document (PDF) up at the new and growing ChangeThis site, and while many of the 60 points are useful or sensible (in a Swimming With Sharks or Selling the Dream business wisdom kind of way), one in particular jumped out at me: his take on calendars. Here's the 49th Thing he Believes:
Your calendar knows all. (You = Your calendar.) Physiologically, we are indeed what we eat. Professionally, we are our calendar. Fact is, there is only one surefire way for the boss to underscore her/his commitment to quality or empowerment or innovation or the Web or whatever: Spend (gobs of) Time on “It.” Gandhi famously said, “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” Tom, less famously, says, “You are your calendar.” Your calendar reveals all. (All = All.) Translation, if needed: Your calendar reveals like no other tool (such as soaring rhetoric) what you actually care about. The premier (only true!) indicator of caring is...Visibly Spending the Time:
You = Your Calendar.
Your True Priorities = Time Visibly Spent.
I care = It's on the Calendar. Big Time.
I don't care/it's not a priority = It ain't repeatedly/relentlessly on the Calendar.
Axiom No. 1: Calendars Never Lie!
All non-bosses are would-be Kremlinologists, as we used to call them; or intense Examiners of Tea Leaves. There's no more important survival question for an underling than “What's the Boss really thinking about?” And the answer is revealed...with crystal clarity...in that boss's...Calendar. If she or he is spending (lotsa) time on quality...THEN QUALITY MATTERS. If not...the converse is the case.
There's a crucial variation on this theme. I once watched a highly energetic chief ripped asunder by a senior member of his board. “Richard,” the "
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