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Embracing Chaos: How to Shake Things Up and Make Things Happen

The following is a list of the subjects you will find on each tape.

Side One: Liberating Yourself
Why being confused is good in today's business world. Crazy times call for crazy organizations.

Side Two: Life Without Job Descriptions
What we can learn from McKinsey and Company. Pursuing paperlessness. Becoming smaller, quicker, and more energetic.

Side Three: Thinking Resume; Reconsidering Careers
Five things you can learn from management consultants. What top performers know about taking initiative. Six steps you need to take in this new age of homework. A career path that zigs and zags.

Side Four: Project Management: The Premier Skill
Why cyberspace will make it easier than ever to capitalize on new opportunities. The 13 differences between a project team and a committee.

Side Five: Every Person a Business Person
Eleven points to consider to turn anyone into a business person. Ten ways home life teaches us about business. Seven traits of successful business start-ups.

Side Six: Trust, Respect and the Mindful Organization
Would the average person rather have a good day or a lousy day? Exploring the control paradox.

Side Seven: The importance of Failure and Mistakes
Sam Walton's approach to failure. Why moving forward requires you to fail.

Side Eight: The Age of Talent
Creating an ecology to attract smart people. How you can tell if a person will have an entrepreneurial flair. The darker side of leadership.

Side Nine: Unleashing Imagination and Passion
Working and managing in the curious organization. Fifty ways to get lucky.

Side Ten: Knowledge Management
The strategic advantage of Buckman Labs. The value of conversation. Simultaneous problem-solving.

Side Eleven: Subcontracting as a Way of Life
The largest private sector employer in America. The Dallas Organization: it had a life span of several hours. Thinking partner.

Side Twelve: Glow and Tingle
Why any product can be transformed. A cab driver with a mission. Why Tom and his wife almost went into the restaurant business during a trip to New Zealand.

Tom Peters, arguably the world's all time best selling business author, lays down the ways managers can make 'chaos' work for them. First, remove the words 'career' out of your vocubulary. Instead of climbing the corporate ladder, he suggests that everyone strive to 'do neat stuff': start project teams and think horizontally rather than vertically.

He suggest that the structure at professional service firms like McKinsey & Co. and Arthur Andersen, will be how great companies will look like tomorrow.Watch out for the section in which he reveals how McKinsey & Co. deliver great value to their clients and earn obscene profits.

A good and entertaining read.