Tom Morris

This is Tom's most widely requested talk. It's high energy fun, profound, and extremely practical, all at the same time. One major company has asked for this talk more than 60 times, for its various business units. It presents the most universal tools for individual and organizational success, as understood by the great thinkers of the centuries. Many businesses and lives have been changed for the better because of this talk.

We all need guiding concepts we can trust—ideas that have stood the test of time and can help us achieve success in even the most demanding situations. Tom has an unprecedented ability to bring together the wisdom of the ages in a form that people can use right now. This talk presents a simple, powerful and complete framework of seven universal conditions for deeply satisfying, sustainable excellence in all that we do. His now-famous “7 Cs of Success” have fueled extraordinary results in pockets of excellence around the world, and have never been more important than they are today. In a high-energy and entertaining session, Tom will reveal the most fundamental tools for personal and institutional greatness and provide a practical guide for their use every day. This talk leaves people with a new, well-grounded enthusiasm and a determination to use the wisdom they’ve been given. Once they’ve heard it, they'll never be the same.

The 7 Cs of Success: For True Success In Any Endeavor, We Need

• C1: A clear CONCEPTION of what we want, a vivid vision, a goal clearly imagined.
• C2: A strong CONFIDENCE that we can attain the goal.
• C3: A focused CONCENTRATION on what it will take to reach that goal.
• C4: A stubborn CONSISTENCY in pursuing our vision.
• C5: An emotional COMMITMENT to the importance of what we're doing.
• C6: A good CHARACTER to guide us and keep us on a proper course.
• C7: A CAPACITY TO ENJOY the process along the way.

When you take good care of your people, your people take good care of your customers, and your customers take good care of you. The key to it all is a winning culture. So: What creates a great organizational culture? What guides and motivates us to bring our best to every challenge and work powerfully with others every day? Tom shows that the answers to these questions are simple, profound, and transformational. At a time when pressures are high and companies are focusing on the discipline of execution, the main challenge is getting everyone to believe deeply in what they’re doing and to do it with excellence and care every day. As Tom laid out in his classic book If Aristotle Ran General Motors: The New Soul of Business, Aristotle and a few other profound thinkers have revealed four foundations for reaching and maintaining the highest levels of commitment and greatness in our work with other people. It's all about Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and Unity - four things we rarely talk about, and four things that can transform a culture.

In this session, Tom presents those four foundations for a winning culture and offers practical guidelines for putting into practice the greatest wisdom for sustainable greatness. This talk will give you a profound diagnostic tool whose use empowers individuals and organizations in a new way, while strengthening all your most vital relationships beyond what you could have imagined. This is a must-have framework of ideas for leaders at any level, as well as for front line people who need to form strong and resilient client relations.

One day Tom got a call. "Our president wants your Lemons to Lemonade talk, but wonders of you could do it without mentioning lemons." Tom thought to himself, "Ah, the sugar water talk," but only said, "Well, that's interesting. Why do you ask?" The caller explained that life and the market was handing their company truck loads of lemons, and they needed tools to deal with the problem, but the president of the company was a bit shy about admitting in public that they faced a very sour situation. He wanted a talk title that was wholly upbeat, but the tools from Tom's Lemonade presentation. What to do?

The answer ended up being fairly simple. Tom drew on an ancient enterprise that allowed a new metaphor to govern his presentation of the tools needed to deal with difficult change. Over many centuries of the human adventure, the quest of the alchemist was to take something ordinary and create out of it something truly extraordinary, or even to take something undesirable, and create something exceptional. There is nothing in our time more ordinary now than the rapid pace of tumultuous change that we increasingly face in so many ways. And it's often, as it first hits us, perceived as strongly undesirable.

Tom created this version of his change talk to deal with the situation, and it was a huge hit.

There are two kinds of change: The change that happens to us, and the change that happens only because of us. How do you respond creatively and powerfully to change that comes your way? How do you best initiate change that needs to be made? As a rare philosopher who is as full of humor and great stories as he is of insights that can change your business and your life, Tom will explain in this talk the changeless wisdom of the ages on dealing well with change. And there are no lemons in sight.