Tom Peters is coauthor of In Search of Excellence—the book that changed the way the world does business and often tagged as the best business book ever. Also the author of The Excellence Dividend . Seventeen books and thirty-five years later, Tom is still at the forefront of the “management guru industry” he single-handedly invented. Also the recipient of the Thinkers50 Lifetime Achievement Award.

PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO ONLINE PLATFORM BANDWIDTH DEFICIENCIES DURING THIS PANDEMIC, THERE ARE SOME AUDIO DROPOUTS DURING THIS EPISODE.

In this episode, Lee, Audrey and Tom discuss: 

·          Opinion on CEOs currently laying off thousands of employees

·          What is business responsibility in this Coronavirus epidemic?

·          How to “Manage By Walking Around without Walking Around”

·          Why leaders need to ramp up intimacy, kindness and thoughtfulness during this time 

"Business is not about profit. It is about creating value if you do it right the profit will mostly follow. So what I will say to the businessperson who did not take out the second mortgage and you’ve got 14 terrific people and they’re short on insurance or short on what have you, I am not very interested in your bank account staying good over the course of the next 4-5 months you owe it to your team. I’m not suggesting you send your house into receivership. I’m looking with a really cynical eye at CEOs of some of these giant companies who are laying people off by the thousands. That is BULLSHIT. If you are a CEO sitting with stock options up the kazoo and you’ve got a bank account which is 170 million dollars and if you lay front line people off you area first class lifelong son of a bitch in my book. ” – Tom Peters 

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