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3/25/2012 2:57:23 AM EST
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Boring Is Beautiful! (Or at Least It Can Be.)
tom peters, little big things, in search of excellence, ways to pursue excellence, leadership, strategy
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13. Boring Is Beautiful! (Or at Least It Can Be.)
Jim Penman started out mowing lawns. Now the Aussie-based company he started has over 2,500 franchisees doing "stuff" that busy people don'r have time to do—from walking dogs to installing security doors to cleaning carpets.
Basement Systems, Inc., meanwhile, is a fast-growing, $60-million-plus Connecticut-based business.. Larry Janesky runs it. He'll dry out your basement. (See his, yes, best-selling book Dry Basement Science.) The basement thus becomes a stellar storage area, or a non-damp, non-moldy, non-illness-inducing family room, or a spare bedroom—whatever.
Message: For would-be entrepreneurs, there's more to life than Biotech and Internet start-ups and
"boutique" financial planning businesses.
This is a subsection of document #5 in a series of 48 highlights from Tom Peters' The Little BIG Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence (HarperStudio, 2010). For more information, visit tompeters.com .
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