1. Tom Peters Seminar2004 NEW SLIDES 25.June.2004

2. When I was growing up, my parents used to say to me: Finish your dinnerpeople in China are starving. I, by contrast, find myself wanting to say to my daughters: Finish your homeworkpeople in China and India are starving for your job. Thomas Friedman/06.24.2004

3. I often noticed that while the admirals around the table vigorously shook their heads in disagreement, the younger officers lining the back walls nodded their heads in assent. This was a huge lesson for me: If one was going to change things, one needed to focus on the mid-level officers. Because in just a few short years, they would be running the Navy, and they realized, intuitively, that the future threat environment [had changed radically]. Thomas Barnett, The Pentagons New Map