Tom Morris World's Top Public Philosophers and Pioneering Business Thinkers

Some walls are good. Others get in the way. The key to groundbreaking success in any endeavor is breaking down needless barriers and forming great partnerships. This talk explores the power of collaborative excellence and avoiding the forces that often prevent it, drawing on such great classics as Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Beowulf, Frankenstein, and Moby Dick.

The most successful companies and highest performing individuals are eager for challenge and can move from difficulty into delight. They live the old adage, “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade,” and they do so at a very deep level of transformative alchemy. In this popular talk, Tom shows how any of us can become alchemists of challenge and change. Tom's book to go along with this talk is: Plato’s Lemonade Stand: Stirring Change into Something Great.

This keynote is the perfect compliment to Tom's new book Plato's Lemonade Stand, which is all about challenging change and moving from difficulty to delight in uncertain situations. Speaker addresses "stage of life" issues.

Steve Jobs somehow overcame his extremely difficult personality enough to change the world. How did he do it? And what can his deep operating philosophy mean for each of us in our work? For this talk, Tom dug into resources never previously consulted for the surprising success of a controversial legend. In turns entertaining and revelatory, this presentation will bring you ideas you can use right away. Tom’s Follow-up book is his highly praised Socrates in Silicon Valley.

If you've come here after reading one of my books or hearing one of my talks and are looking for a little reinforcement for the framework of ideas I call "The 7 Cs of Success" you're in the right place!

Life is supposed to be a series of adventures—and that means reinventing our work, renewing our relationships, retooling how we do things, refreshing our inner attitudes, and coming to new forms of personal achievement as a result. If you've read or heard about my 7 Cs of Success, I hope they will help with your upcoming adventures, in all the opportunities you face. And I hope to keep serving you as your philosopher! The great thinkers of the past have given us lots of ideas we can use with great effect right now.

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What makes for great teams and partnerships during challenging times? Tom has combed through the world’s great literature, philosophy, psychology, and social science to discover the simple tools for great work together. There are four values that, respected, nurtured, and applied well in our work together, make for great fulfillment and true excellence. This presentation will give you a powerful framework for making the most of your energies and efforts with other people, whether inside your organization, or with the other people you serve. This talk is based on Tom’s classic leadership book, If Aristotle Ran General Motors.

Tom has gathered the greatest global wisdom for success in challenging, uncertain times into seven simple and powerful concepts whose faithful implementation can vastly improve any business or life. This talk has been developed and refined through more than a thousand presentations worldwide to some of the largest global corporations and trade associations, as well as to small groups of enterprising individuals. Often the top hit of any national convention or annual meeting, this presentation inspires immediate implementation and positive change. Great follow-up books by Tom are The Oasis Within, True Success, and The Art of Achievement.