Book Description
More than just a how-to book for the 21st Century, Re-imagine! is a call to arms -- a passionate wake-up call for the business world, educators, and society as a whole. Focusing on how the business climate has changed, this inspirational book outlines how the new world of business works, explores radical ways of overcoming outdated, traditional company values, and embraces an aggressive strategy that empowers talent and brand-driven organizations where everyone has a voice.
Customer Reviews:
Re-imagine yourself. .......2007-09-04
Re-imagine! Can you imagine a world where things didn't change? Where you didn't have to re-invent yourself to stay in the game? Tom Peters' book "Re-imagine!" will help you look at yourself and your company in a different light. We all have to come to grips with the fact that the rules of business have changed and will continue to change. "Re-imagine!" helps you develop a mindset that engages change. If you keep doing the same things you have always done you will soon go the way of the dinosaur. Why not re-invent yourself today before someone else does it for you.
I love the attitude of the book that we must "Relish the Mess". It's time to get our hands dirty, to go out and "play" as hard as we can in order to find out just how we can "put a dent in the world". To many individuals and companies are comfortable with incremental improvement from year to year. "Re-imagine!" shows us that nothing truly remarkable comes from playing it safe and making only incremental improvements. "Re-imagine!" is about putting yourself at risk, working incredibly hard, failing fast and finding your unique way to change the world. After all, if you're not out to change the world, why bother?
Read this book! Then "Re-imagine!" yourself and your company.
A Must-Have, High-Spirited Addition to your Management Books .......2007-02-02
I love Tom Peters. I love his enthusiasm, his positive outlook, and his motivating ideas on how to excel in our dynamic, ever changing workplace.
This book is pure Tom, wonderfully insightful and covering most of his current themes. Once you get into (or past) his slightly frantic magazine-like format you'll be well rewarded as he hip-hops from topic to topic covering everything White-Collar Cataclysm (and how to survive it) to bringing Weird and Wow to the workplace.
If you're going to be in the workplace for the next 10+ years, I strongly recommend you pick it up!
Some of my favorite quips from the book:
* Innovation comes from pissed off people.
* Embrace failure! We avoid failures but we must embrace it. We must glory in the murk and muss that yields true innovation.
* It's easier to kill then change. It's easier to make Walmart then change Sears.
* "Good" management was the most powerful reason that leading firms failed to stay atop their industries.
* For 2 decades we have outsourced blue-collar jobs, now comes white-collar jobs.
* Culture isn't just 1 aspect of the game - it is the game! (Lou Gerstner)
* Design is the #1 determinant on whether a product-service-experience stands out, or not.
* Engage your folks. Make things that are cool and that work. Stick your neck out.
* No body gives you power. You just take it. Obeying the rules is obeying their rules. Astonish me. Build something great. Make it immortal.
* Getting Things done is ultimately not about power or rank. It's about passion and imagination and persistence.
* Never accept an assignment as it is given. You are never so powerful as when you're "powerless".
* Every "small" project contains the DNA of the entire enterprise.
* Fail, Forward, Fast. Fail sooner, succeed sooner.
* Find Heroes. Do Demos. Tell Stories.
* Know Your Product - Have true, deep knowledge of your product.
* Success = Sales Success! Everywhere. Period. We're All in Sales. All the Time.
* Blame No One! Expect Nothing! Do Something! (NY Jets Locker Room by then-coach Bill Parcells)
* Meet the New Boss: Women Rule!
* Think Weird: The High Value-Added Bedrock
* Be Performance oriented - to a fault. Collect the Best Dammed Group Of Talent possible and then convince them to go where they never imagined they could
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a magazine book.......2007-01-28
I admire Tom Peters, but it seems like a magazine and doesn't has a clear purpose.
Meet Tom at the Bar for best results.......2006-11-14
Tom Peters blasts into his book Re-Imagine with gusto, touting the power of pissed off people like him to change the world! However, in spewing forth his rhetoric and ideas, the medium of prose does not seem quite sufficient in bandwidth, so the book has side bars, parenthetical remarks, and jumps topics mid-sentence. For best results, bring a glass of wine to your reading chair, and don't try to drink in every word, just listen to the jist of it. You're meeting Tom Peters at the bar, so it's best to be on the same grounds as him.
Muito Bom.......2006-11-10
O Tom Peters escreve de uma forma que torna a inovação um tema acessível a todos. O livro é muito bem formatado e graficamente atraente. Recomendo a quem busca uma leitura agradavel e atual.
Book Description
In his parables Jesus re-imagines the world. The re-imagined world, called the kingdom of God, presents his followers with a new option for living, one that contrasts with the default world of the everyday. The new world is both terrifying and liberating. In this book the author sets his interpretation of the key parables of Jesus in the context of other things Jesus said and did. The result is a startling and provocative picture of the historical figure and the challenge he presents to contemporary life.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Source.......2004-08-30
Re-Imagine the world is an excellent scholarly source on the parables and written in an easy to understand way. Scott keeps the chapters interesting, but not too long, and not confusing. It's a great book for people just beginning to read about the parables and for those who only want a brief overview. It shows many details that the common person would overlook, like Jewish law and ancient traditions.
It is important for anyone to keep in mind that no one scholar is 100% right, but all scholarly points of view are important.
It's an interesting, quick read. I definitely recommend it!
For the record.......2004-08-13
I haven't bought this book yet, but I'm probably going to. I just wanted to clarify at least one erroneous statement from the previous review. The author states that the vine and the branches and the good shepherd are parables. While both elements are present in the gospel of John, but neither are parables. The Good Samaritan is a parable. It is a story told by Jesus to illustrate a point, usually about the nature of the kingdom of God. "I am the vine, you are the branches", while meaningful, is not a story to illustrate a point. It is an image. It may be a beautiful image, it may be an awful image. But an image it is. Both are instances of a trend of John's, a series of "I am" statements which are largely unique to John, and yes, do tend to exist in place of parables. For the author to assert that John isn't much fodder for the student of parables is actually correct. This is not to say that the gospel of John is of no interest or use, simply that it is of little use for those studying parables. In much the same way, the Declaration of Independence is not of much use to those who wish how to make a casserole. To say that the Declaration of Independence is of little use to those studying casserole is not a mark against the document, but merely to place it in its proper context.
Thank you. That is all.
You may say he's a dreamer..........2003-06-17
Right off the top, it's important to know one fact about the author, because his perspective colors everything he writes about, and the colors are red, pink, gray, and black. Yes, Brandon Scott is a charter member of the Jesus Seminar, so that means that "Jesus" here is actually the reconstructed, reduced Jesus as promoted by the likes of J.D. Crossan, and, furthermore, the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas stands on equal footing with the biblical gospels we all know and love: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and, well, John isn't dealt with at all here, because there are supposedly no parables in John (umm, what about the Vine and the Branches, or the Good Shepherd?)
First the positives: the author is an expert on parables, and there are some excellent interpretations here of a few of them. What is often lost to a modern readership when dealing with the parables is the fact that they were often shocking and scandalous to their first-century audience. Therefore, while "Good Samaritan" may be part of our vernacular, the very idea was just unheard of by his Jewish listeners. The best interpretive job, or the one that resonates with me the most, is concerning the Prodigal Son(s), where the conventions of Jewish family life are ripped apart by what transpires. The father is shown as being degraded by the young son, and degrades himself in the eyes of the community when he welcomes him back. That only scratches the surface, but if there is any reason to get this book, the Prodigal Son story would be it. On other parables, there are issues raised which are often ignored by other interpreters. For example, in the story of the hidden treasure, was Jesus commending the man for his dishonesty in finding the treasure, hiding it, and then buying the field without notifying the owner of the hidden treasure? There are potentially some good discussion starters here for small groups.
Of course, the "historical Jesus" had more in mind than just telling stories. It was his way of re-imagining the world as he thought it should be, and here's where things get a little stickier. Just what was Jesus trying to communicate? Here are the main points, according to the book:
1. God is unclean. This rather shocking statement is derived from the parable of the leaven, where a woman "hides" leaven in three measures of flour (a huge amount) and the leaven works its way through the whole batch. Leaven is seen as corruption, as unclean, in other words, so to Jesus, the kingdom (or "empire") of God is full of uncleanness, therefore the rather shaky jump to "God is unclean". My question is, if leaven is considered unclean (and, frankly, it is seen in a negative light throughout Scripture), why was it just prohibited for the seven days of the Passover, and not the whole year round, as was pork and shellfish? That gives this first point a flimsy foundation.
2. God is present in absence. This means, basically, a world void a divine intervention. This is based on the Parable of the Empty Jar found in the gnostic Gospel of Thomas. The parable, like much of the Gospel of Thomas, really makes little sense, but what sense the author does make out of it (and, in my opinion, he really has to stretch to do it), is used to "prove" this point. However, those of us who believe in the healing ministry of Jesus, which implies divine intervention, would see that as totally dismantling that argument.
3. Cooperation, not competition. This is illustrated by the Parable of the Good Samaritan. This point I have no problem with, as far as it goes.
The author, finally, seems to have his own agenda here: a Christianity without Christ, which is an etymological impossibility. The argument that is made for this is so weak as to be no argument at all. So, I'll sum up this book with a parable of my own. "Re-Imagine the World" to me is like a breakfast buffet to a vegetarian, who takes what he or she can eat (fruit) and rejects the rest (bacon, sausage, and eggs).
Book Description
A playful guide for potential princesses.
Princesses live in fairytale castles and spend their days doing important things. There are ships to launch, knights to reward, and marriage proposals from persistent princes to decline. Potential princesses can explore the full panoply of princess practices in
Imagine You're a Princess!
They can claim the coolest bedroom in the palace (no peas under the mattress, please), learn to care for princess pets (unicorns are a perennial favorite), and practice essential life skills (helping others, being fascinating and intelligent). They can also create some princess paintings (bright colors only, of course), meet some famous faces (Rapunzel really lets her hair down, but Sleeping Beauty's always napping), and even sneak a peak at a royal diary.
Complete with step-by-step tips to becoming a princess, regal recipes for royal occasions, and other activities worthy of their highnesses,
Imagine You're a Princess! is a jewel of a book.
Book Description
An enchanting guide for anyone who's ever dreamt of being a fairy!
Did you know that fairies can be short, small, fat, tall, or thin? Whatever they look like, all fairies are very clever and very magical. And have you ever wondered where fairies live?
This offbeat and highly amusing guide describes the essentials for any child who decides to become a fairy: a magic wand, flying shoes, a cloak of invisibility, glitter, and a regal expression.
This book offers masses of practical information. Within these pages, readers will discover everything they need to know about fairy outfits and clothes, equipment and accessories. There's even detailed information on magic and spells. Young fairies might choose the spell for good luck or the one for making general mischief. And be sure to check out the pages on wands and flying practice, both critical to a successful career as a fairy. You will also find out about fairy godmothers and the code of conduct that fairies must obey.
Full of imagination and a quirky sense of humor that will hit kids' funny bone, this is a hugely entertaining book on the upside-down world of fairies. And there could be no better person to illustrate it than Lucy Loveheart, who must have been a fairy once herself.
Customer Reviews:
Delightful!.......2004-04-26
My 6 year old daughter and I were enchanted. After the first reading, she started carrying this book around with her, looking for favorite pages, like the one with the yummy-looking recipe for Fairy Bars. Charming illustrations inspire a feeling of glitter and fairy dust on every page. It begins with a brief statement that fairies are made out of the imagination. The rest of the book describes fairies in a very matter-of-fact way, complete with definitions of all the types of fairies (pixies, elves, banshees, leprechauns, etc.), a map of the enchanted forest, one spell/potion each for good luck and for mischief, directions for practicing wand waving and flying, brief descriptions of famous fairies (Tinkerbell and Titania, Oberon, and Puck from a Midsummer Night's Dream), and suggestions for making fairy dust, a crown, and a wand. I especially like the emphasis on diversity among fairies (in terms of size, shape, color, and personality). What is valued most is the fairies' cleverness and magical abilities. Simply lovely.
Great for believers of all ages..........2003-05-14
My daughters (5 & 8) and I thought this book was more than magical, it was enchanting and informative and we learnt so much more about fairies than we knew before. Give this as a gift to your daughter, your God-daughter, or your niece... oe even your Mother-in-Law so she can know the spell / recipe for Good luck.
A gorgeous book!
Book Description
A merrily alluring guide to the realm of mermaids.
If you've ever heard the call to be such a creature,
Imagine You're a Mermaid! is the guide for you! Awash with information on all things mermaid, this book offers tips on what to wear (seashell tiaras and seaweed hair extensions), where to live (in coral castles with turrets of pearl), and what to do (look beautiful and maybe make some mischief).
Dripping with mermaid tales, sea scenes, and even some treats to try (mer-ingues, anyone?), and saturated with stunning artwork (including watercolors, of course
Imagine You're a Mermaid! is guaranteed to drown your boredom.
Key Features:
Fun to read, look at, and do activities
Eye-catching illustrations complement delightfully silly descriptions
Book Description
A gallant guide to knightly know-how.
The life of a knight is not an easy one. It takes bravery and skill to battle a dragon...and a really fast car doesn't hurt. Charge into
Imagine You're a Knight! and enter a kingdom of imagination, knightly secrets, and fun.
Aspiring squires will learn the importance of a well-equipped quest: armor (as many as twenty pieces), polish for making it shine, sword and shield, and carrots for their trusty steed. They'll also discover the difference between quests, tasks, and adventures, the downsides of dragon-battling, and the need for tournaments when dragons are in short supply.
Charmingly linked with tales of bravery (meet the Knights of the Round Table), laudable activities (design a coat of arms, feast on Eggscalibread), and details of knightly life,
Imagine You're a Knight! also dazzles with daring illustrations.
Book Description
Shiver me timbers!... A wickedly sinful peek at life on the rolling seas.
Did you know that some pirates are big and strong while others are tall and thin and cunning? Pirates can come in many different shapes and sizes, but all are very, very wicked!!! If you want to be a pirate, you'll need an eye patch, a polka-dot handkerchief, a wooden leg or hook, earrings...and this book!
Did you know that the pirate code stipulates that pirates can never be kind to children? Do you know where pirates work? Actually, pirates sail the Seven Seas looking for ships to rob, so they usually don't make it home for dinner. And sometimes, when the captain gets really angry, a pirate will be thrown overboard, so it's a good idea to take lessons in walking the plank.
Pirates also spend a lot of time looking for treasure. It can be buried deep in the ocean or stashed away on a treasure island. Pirates often meet up with sea monsters or typhoons or marauding buccaneers -- but they don't get danger pay!
Another thing about pirates: they don't even buy their own ships! They usually just steal other people's. That's why their ships have nice names like Saucy Sue.
There's so much more to say about pirates (not the least of which is that they like to drink lots of grog and then sing pirate songs). Children will devour the information in this book. It is funny and entertaining, amusingly twisted, and will appeal to that insatiable interest in the wicked world of pirates. With such a warped take on the topic, only an irreverent illustrator like Lucy Blackheart could do it justice.
Customer Reviews:
I may have to walk the plank, though..........2005-04-23
I absolutely agree with Mr. Stapleton's review. The book is a visual delight of fun, textured and imaginative illustrations.
The text draws you back to a time when you remember jumping from bed to bed, pretending to swing from your pirate ship onto a merchant galleon.
Here's where you'll make me walk the plank. I work with an after-school program. I chose this book to read in a general setting, to a group of children not related to me. I decided against it because of the mermaids and the graphic (though cartoony) violence. But...
Twist me wiskers an' polish me hook! The book is sooo much fun! Lucky for me, I have nephews to share it with!
Cute and Light Hearted.......2003-11-17
Factual content is nearly non-existent, but so what; this is a very fun book. The artwork is bright and glittery, styled in the manner of something drawn by a grade school child. The text makes light of the pirate life, while not making it seem like fun and games (rule number one of the Pirate Code is Never be kind to children). The content is laced with the various myths of pirate life, everything from walking the plank to buried treasure.
All in all this is a fun book for young children, and I emphasize young, with an interest in pirates. For reading of a slightly more factual nature I recommend Eyewitness: Pirate.
P-)
Book Description
A graceful guide for make-believe ballerinas.
The life of a ballerina is not just about looking lovely and dancing divinely. There are feet to care for, tutus to fluff... And just what is the secret to preventing dizziness from all that spinning? Leap into
Imagine You're a Ballerina! and take center stage in an elegant ballet of the imagination.
Budding ballerinas will learn important vocabulary (know your prima from your pirouette), costume tips (Swan Lake outfits should, in fact, never get wet) and hairstyle suggestions (beware long locks that tangle other dancers). They'll also find advice on accessories, more "do's" and "don'ts" of ballet, and some fascinating facts from the history of dance.
Complete with story snippets of famous ballets, ballet-themed crafts for aspiring artists, and tongue-in-cheek details of all things ballerina,
Imagine You're a Ballerina! is sure to lift young readers' imaginations.
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Re-Imagine Your Business for Breakthrough Results: Discover Unexpected New Opportunities by Understanding Who You Are, How You Got Where You Are, Where You Can Go
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Business successes and failures can almost always be traced to the quality of their fundamental ideas and how they are used in the company. Ideas are always fresh when a business starts, but when they become stale, when they fail to reflect the changes in the world, then the business withers and eventually dies.
This is a practical book about business, ideas, and "complexity." Complexity is a new science that shows how interactions among individuals, environments, chance events, and evolution produce the variety and unpredictable outcomes of the world. In a sense, it is the science of real-world, "messy" systems. Human organizations, and businesses, are the messiest systems. Traditionally, to manage them we've been able to make them less messy and more predictable. But today the world no longer cooperates. Now cultures, markets, and technologies change so fast that businesses must be more adaptive than they had to be in more predictable times.
Human organizations are different from all other adaptive systems because they have, at their cores, ideas, not DNA. They are driven by explicit goals and intentions, not just survival and reproduction, and the organization is the way they pursue the goals. Unique ideas give each human complex system a unique identity, and those ideas are the "glue" that holds it together.
The book includes a set of "diagnostics for emergent strategies" that enable any organization to assess and improve the quality and use of its ideas. These diagnostics, along with over 100 examples, show how to rethink business purposes, to identify sources of confusion or poor performance, to consider options that older mindsets have closed off, to make decisions, and, most importantly, to alter the perspective of your company for markedly better results.
Customer Reviews:
Strategic implications of complexity.......2003-02-18
The author is a founder of the strategy and consulting firm associated with the well-known research center The Santa Fe Institute (for a description of its work on complexity see Waldrop: Complexity). The book is therefore framed within an explanation of the implications of complexity theory for non-human and human systems. The book starts with a brief overview of the development of scientific thought, emergence of the theory of 'complex adaptive systems' and its application to business. The overview includes a useful explanation of the important distinction between non human and human (purposive) systems and the implications for a view of business based on complexity. Businesses, at least those that offer a physical product, necessarily contain both kinds of system, as well as containing both linear and complex systems, and strategy has to recognize this explicitly.
The author then discusses the implications of this fact for the structure and strategy processes of a business, including the distinction between what he calls 'doing' or 'instrumental' processes and 'knowing' or 'strategic' processes, which must be harmonized continuously and adaptively to produce strategies. He argues that strategic processes are concerned with principles and models, while instrumental processes are concerned with rules and behaviors, all of which interact.
From this starting point, the balance of the book is concerned with explaining, developing and applying (through examples) a structure of diagnostics - essentially strategic questions - that a business needs to work through in order to develop strategies and strategic processes that not only meet current competitive needs, but adapt to unpredictably changing circumstances and take advantages of opportunities arising from continually reconceptualising the business within a clear understanding of business purpose.
If you are familiar with any of the business literature that rests on systems thinking, complexity or the primacy of knowledge management in contemporary strategy, do not expect to find dramatically new ideas in this book. It is a well structured presentation of reasonably familiar precepts, laced with relevant examples and good common sense advice on some of the balances required and the pitfalls to be avoided. The questions proposed as diagnostics appear to be thorough and comprehensive, although I would have preferred to see a more user-friendly form of presentation than the largely narrative style that is used.
As ever, the step from knowing what ought to be done and why it is being done to successful implementation is a large one, and the author does not go in any depth into the human issues of bringing plans to fruition. He does however stress the importance of clear purpose, shared understanding and a culture that encourages learning and draws forth the creativity of all participants within the business and across the stakeholder chain.
Book Description
A playfully spellbinding guide to the world of wizardry!
Did you know that some wizards are young and good-looking while others are old with long beards? Or that all wizards are clever and bossy and love showing off? That's why they wear such peculiar clothes.
For any budding young magic-maker,
Imagine You're a Wizard! offers all you need to learn the tricks of the trade. From where to live (try a twisty, turning turret in a chilly, creepy castle) to what to wear (pointed hats are a must, as are rubber boots for muddy forests), author Meglin offers up wizarding tips aplenty.
Bursting with wizard lore, wands to make, and even some spells to try, and glowing with enchanting illustrations by Lucy Lightning,
Imagine You're a Wizard! is a guaranteed charmer.
Key Features:
Wizards are a wildly popular topic
Fun to read, look at, and do activities
Eye-catching illustrations complement delightfully silly descriptions
Customer Reviews:
A comprehensive guide to wizardry........2004-09-03
This book gives a good overall guide to children telling them how to become wizards. It even includes one spell (to make you famous one day).
A light hearted book ideal for a reading age of around 8 years. The book contains some really good elements. A lesson on how to write in codes, and some word puzzles. Party games and hobbies that children love, such as how to make wands, wizard sticks, magician hats and animal masks.
There is not a single mention of Harry Potter, which is refreshing, although Merlin and Gandalf, my own favorite wizards, do get a mention.
The illustrations are excellent, highly detailed with lots of elements for children to hunt for on the page. This makes the book accessible to younger children, who can find spiders, bats, mice, cats, owls etc in the drawings.
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- Skills for New Managers
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- SPIN Selling
- Stock Investing For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))
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