Tom Peters | Thrilling Heroics

Choosing the Life Path Less Taken

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Thrilling Heroics was born in 2006 with a different purpose than it serves today, and it has gone through many “evolutions” if you will. I recently re-wrote the About Page to reflect what this community stands for, but I wanted to take this opportunity to share my personal life philosophy and my hopes for this [...]

Filtering Through the Static: My Media Consumption Habits

Friday, May 23, 2008

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I’ve put together a primer on my media and entertainment consumption as part of the Media Diet internet meme. It’s a big post, but I highly recommend each and every one of the useful links contained here, and if you take just five minutes to read through this, I’ve included a few little gems on [...]

ThrillingHeroics.com: The Best Posts of 2007

Sunday, December 30, 2007

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Happy Holidays everybody. I wish you all the best and hope that you get a chance to spend some quality time with family and loved ones. If you haven’t heard yet, I am traveling in Spain for the holidays with some good friends, but I wanted to be sure to share my 2007 year-end wrap-up [...]

Perform Year-End Personal Development Review for Continued Success

Friday, December 28, 2007

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The advent of a new year is a great time to reflect on all that you’ve done over the past 12 months and take what you’ve learned, and build a roadmap for the coming year and beyond. Lea Woodward at Freelance Switch wrote a fantastic article to help freelancers apply what you learned in 2007 [...]

How To Use Your Peers For Fun And Profit!

Saturday, November 3, 2007

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You’re a high achiever! You’re motivated to succeed in your education and your career. But do you know the price of success? Frank Lloyd Wright, America’s most famous architect, captured it well when he said, “I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see [...]

Learn To Build A Brand That Shouts Distinction, Commitment, and Passion

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

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Following up on last week’s interview with personal branding expert Dan Schawbel, I’d like to share a short and sweet review of Tom Peters’ The BrandYou50, a book that changed my life! The value add here is the BrandYou50 cheat sheet that I put together for you, since I know you’re all so very busy [...]

Book Review: Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

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Anyone who’s crazy about business books knows Tom Peters, the management guru who foresees an Inescapable White Collar Revolution that will transform business in the next ten years! (And if you don’t, you should read him!) Well, Tom is getting to be quite the old-timer. (Sorry, Tom.) Penelope Trunk is his engaging, competent, young replacement. ‘Nuff [...]

New Years Resolutions 2007

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

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I don’t remember how I first came across it, but a post by Rajesh Setty from January 2006, his “New Year Resolutions Generator,” inspired me to start thinking about New Years resolutions a few weeks early this year. I know it’s already the 2nd of January (sorry, I meant to have this up earlier), but [...]