Tom Peters blogs…

If you’re a fan of the management guru’s management guru Tom Peters, you’ll be interested to see that he’s started blogging at his site.

Tom being Tom, he’s not doing things by half-measures, either. He’s prolific, wide-ranging and controversial - everything from his thoughts on the dominance of US universities to the contents of his suitcase (you have to hope it has wheels, if only for the sake of his back!) And it’s not just a token effort ‘vanity blog’ - it comes with comments and permalinks too (no sign of trackbacks, however.)

And if you follow some of the ‘blogging gurus’ (actual and so-called) you may have seen a lot written about ‘finding your blogging voice’ and so on. Personally I tend towards the opinion that it’s better just to get posting than agonise too much about such things - part of the appeal of weblogs in a corporate setting is that they get away from the bland over-produced voices that you tend to find in too many press releases and corporate information material. But interestingly, Tom Peters blogs in exactly the same way as he writes - LOTS OF CAPITALS and many exclamation marks!!!! You almost get the feeling that what he really wants are sidebars and graphics and typographic gizmos of the kind that pepper his books.

The upshot of his blog is that he’s now front-of-my-mind on a daily basis, whereas previously the closest I’d come to remaining aware of him was seeing the spines of his books when I happened to glance at my bookshelf…

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