Most assessment instruments are based on measuring against what has worked in the past. The Navigation Aid has a future orientation. It measures organisations against our take on future business excellence, which is drawn from Tom Peters’ life long obsession with that subject, and Tom Peters Company’s (TPC’s) perspective after more than 20 years of work with futuristic clients.

The NavAid is a TPC proprietary product. It describes 50 characteristics of future business excellence against which users can map their current position and identify where they believe they need to be in the future. It can be used by individuals, management teams, departments, or across whole businesses. It is a springboard for effective business change initiatives in contemporary times.

In our practice, TPC uses this instrument to stimulate debate and fresh thinking at our management team events, encouraging them to re-imagine what they do and how they do it, and giving them insights into what future excellence looks like at an operational level. And then to the most important step in the process; we help teams to get serious about change by building this fresh thinking into their existing plans and strategies – to bend their management agendas!

The NavAid is directly accessed online by clients and is offered in a number of different packages and different fee structures..

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Womens Culture Study
Tom Peters has said and written much about the respective attributes of men and women in the context of future business success. In Tom Peters Company (TPC), we are convinced that the future winners will be drawn from organizations, much like the best Professional Service Firms, that manage to attract, engage and retain the top contemporary talent available in their sector. So, apart from all the rhetoric, how do men and women leaders currently compare in this respect?

Research has shown that proven women leaders will use adjectives like “innovative, team oriented, collegial and results driven” when describing successful work cultures more often than their male counterparts. Also, women leaders are much more likely to admit to “feeling personally invested in their work communities”. On the face of it then, women leaders would seem to hold a natural advantage over their male counterparts arising from their propensity to build and engage in work communities? But is there any tangible evidence to support this proposition?

Tom Peters Company has commissioned a major research project into the cultural attributes of women owned and women managed businesses using our bespoke assessment tool, Re-imagine! Corporate Productivity (R!CP). The early findings suggested that women leaders do typically exhibit a leadership style that is more inclusive, open, consensus-building, and collaborative. As the survey population approaches our targeted hundred companies milestone, a pattern of evidence is emerging. To date, all the participating women led organizations have selected “collaboration” and “being team oriented” in their top twelve cultural characteristics, and 75% have selected one in their top four. Women do tend to build cultures with measurably higher levels of employee engagement, team working, and collaboration.

The women’s culture study continues to grow! For comparison purposes, these women leaders are being compared to a representative sample of their male counterparts, drawn from similar positions, business sizes, and industries.