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Thursday, September 23, 2004
Keeping the Wow Alive -- Tom Peters – an acquired taste, to be sure, best taken by some in small doses – has recently launched a weblog. One of his posts about nurturing and striving for the “Wow” in what one does didn’t really grab me the first time around, but the comment thread it engendered has some pretty good nuggets in it. Some of the discussion reminds me of something I wrote a few years ago about Joy in the workplace when I had time and energy to think about such things.
It got me thinking that in various places I've worked, we sometimes get so caught up in the hassles of the day-to-day stuff that we forget about the WOW aspect of what we are doing. I know I have sometimes found myself getting a bit cynical in the face of upbeat cheerleading from folks that one typically finds in sales functions and from other visionary evangelists. But as I think about, I do owe those kinds of folks some thanks for reminding us to appreciate the WOW that we are accomplishing.
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