Description

Tom Peters, best-selling business author, speaker, and “Red Bull of management thinking,” reaches back to his start in Silicon Valley in the 1970s, reflecting on how the Valley has evolved and what work still needs to be done to bring the focus back to the people. Tom predicts that continued change is coming our way—especially for women—and that any company or industry’s success comes back to what he calls the “soft stuff.”

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last by Tom Peters

• Liberation Management by Tom Peters
• In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters
• Tom’s latest paper, what he calls a “Sorta Manifesto” named Extreme Humanization/ Extreme Employee Engagement”
• Brotopia: Breaking up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang
• George Valliant Study via The Harvard Gazette: “Harvard study, almost 80 years old, has proved that embracing community helps us live longer, and be happier”
• Washington Post: "The surprising thing Google learned about its employees — and what it means for today’s students"

MUSICAL INSPIRATION FOR THIS EPISODE ON SPOTIFY:

"Don’t Stop Me Now" by Queen

ABOUT THIS PODCAST

Stayin' Alive in Tech is an oral history of Silicon Valley and technology. Melinda Byerley, the host, is a 20-year veteran of Silicon Valley and the founder of Timeshare CMO, a digital marketing intelligence firm, based in San Francisco.

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