LTYM - Creative Swiping

Letters to a Young Manager

Creative Swiping, #204
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Please note that this letter is in-process; the following are my notes

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Think of a story that illustrates "creative swiping" as good engineering!
Tom Peters, Practice "Creative Swiping" Thriving on Chaos Pan Books (1998).

When did I read Thriving on Chaos? 1987?

see http://homepage.mac.com/bobembry/studio/biz/conceptual_resources/toc_reviews/conceptual_resources_files/conceptual_resources_10745.html
From Thriving on Chaos:

Pursuing Fast-Paced Innovation
- The Guiding Premise — I-1: Invest in Applications-Oriented Small Starts
- The Four Key Strategies
  - I-2: Pursue Team Product/Service Development
  - I-3: Encourage Pilots of Everything
  - I-4: Practice “Creative Swiping”
  - I-5: Make Word-of-Mouth Marketing Systematic
- Management Tactics to Encourage Innovation
  - I-6: Support Committed Champions
  - I-7: “Model” Innovation/Practice Purposeful Impatience
  - I-8: Support Fast Failures
  - I-9: Set Quantitative Innovation Goals

"Tom Peters (1987) suggests that leaders should be "shameless thieves" in seeking out new ideas and successful strategies and asks leaders, "What ten ideas have you swiped-and implemented with appropriate enhancement-from competitors and noncompetitors in the last 60 days? If you've adopted-adapted fewer than ten, beef up your `creative swiping' program immediately" (p. 228)." http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4002/is_200210/ai_n9133245/pg_3

"Creative swiping (a term coined by the management guru Tom Peters) is taking an idea from somewhere else and applying it creatively." http://dev.i10.org.uk/learningelements/01_01_04/finaloutput.htm#

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