Tom has two presentations under the topic of change.

The first, Making the Right Things Happen in a Changing World, delivers powerful tools individuals facing change can use to build momentum and teamwork in an increasingly upside-down world. To quote the great sage Yogi Berra, "even the future ain't what it used to be."

The scope, complexity, and rate of change is increasing in virtually every organization. Yet, individuals at all levels must keep focused on producing results - even in the face of greater instability.

What's more, in these times of flattened organizations, people have to be able to do more with less. That means finding behavioral leverage points where a small shift in behavior produces a large shift in performance.

Just as a laser's effectiveness...Read More

The second presentation on change, The 1% Solution, covers his research into Olympic Gold Medal winners.  While the book won't be out until 2009, Tom is including portions of it in this and other presentations.

What's the difference between winners and everyone else? Winners capitalize on an open secret that puts them light years ahead of the competition.

The open secret?

While consistent winners are almost never 100% better than their competition, they are almost always 1% better at 100's of things.

Tom's research into Olympic medal winners shows the same thing.

In the men's downhill at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, for example...Read More