White Collar Revolution: tompeterscompany! Unveils Three Solutions for Reinventing Work to Survive
18 September 2000
White Collar Revolution: tompeterscompany! Unveils Three Solutions for Reinventing Work to Survive
LOVELAND, Ohio--Sept. 18, 2000--"The White Collar Revolution is as significant as anything we have witnessed in the economy for hundreds, maybe thousands, of years. Work as we know it will be totally reinvented with more than 90 percent of white collar jobs in jeopardy," claims Tom Peters, best-selling author, business guru, international educator, and founder and chairman of tompeterscompany!, a world-class training and consulting company.tompeterscompany! announces the availability of three important training solutions (a mixture of training programs, workshops, and custom consulting) based on Peters' latest best-selling books and speeches on reinventing work.
The solutions are specifically designed to address the complex, unparalleled challenges organizations face in the revolution and emerging new economy. They serve as a guidance system and survival kit for organizations, white-collar workers, and work itself. They are:
| -- | BrandYou(TM): Inspired Performance for helping professionals build a distinct identity, deliver inspired performance, and enhance an organization's brand. (Based on The Brand You50) |
| -- | The PSF Solution(TM) for converting teams, departments, or entire organizations to a value-added mindset like the best professional service firms, where work worth paying for is the norm and where work is centered on knowledge workers, clients, and projects. (Based on The Professional Service Firm50) |
| -- | WOW!Projects(TM) for converting critical or mundane projects into memorable projects that matter, make a difference, and yield extraordinary results. (Based on The Project50). |
"Hot ... provocative ... powerful ... three knock-your-socks-off offerings from tompeterscompany!. For those organizations battling the talent wars ... for those organizations searching for that competitive advantage ... for those organizations wrestling with the upheavals caused by the White Collar Revolution, I say, ACT NOW and get goin' with these solutions. Reinvent your workplace," says Peters.
All three training solutions feature custom consulting, top-notch facilitation, multi-media-based education, revealing assessments, compelling case studies, and more. The approach, diagnostics, framework, and deliverables of all three are unique. Companies that successfully piloted these revolutionary tompeterscompany! solutions include Brooks Brothers, Rolls Royce, Merrill Lynch, Mellon Financial Corp., Espire, and others.
A relevant tompeterscompany! model shows five essential transformations as keys to success in the new world of work:
1) Employees must become Brand You professionals;
2) Managers must become Leaders ... at all levels;
3) Departments must operate like the best Professional Service
Firms;
4) Work assignments must become WOW! projects; and
5) Customer service must become a Customer Experience.
Organizations may use the three new solutions as catalysts to accomplish the transformations.
"In today's organizations, a heated search is on big-time for new ideas and new ways to work in the new economy," says tompeterscompany! CEO Boyd L. Clarke. "It's about survival of the fittest. It's about maintaining a competitive edge amidst chaos. It's about achieving success when the stakes are ever higher and ever changing. We believe organizations must do nothing less than reinvent work to survive and thrive in the 21st century. Our three new solutions serve as a foundation for reinvention at many levels."
Peters has taken his groundbreaking philosophy on the revolution, the forces that drive it, and its consequences to audiences all over the world. Most recently, Peters has been featured in Time Magazine (cover story 5/22/00), Business Week, The New York Times, Red Herring, Delta Sky, NPR, and other print and broadcast media.
tompeterscompany! is a world-class training and consulting company headquartered in Loveland, Ohio, with affiliate offices in Palo Alto, Boston, London, and Argentina. Its founder and chairman is Tom Peters. The company has developed and conducted training programs and consulting assignments in the areas of executive development and coaching, leadership development and communication, and other topics. tompeterscompany! has a global clientele of primarily mid-sized and larger organizations such as Sun Microsystems, Rolls Royce, Fed Ex, Charles Schwab, BellSouth, Bank of America, Applied Biosystems, Sandia National Laboratories, MCI, Continental Airlines, VISA, and many others.