TILT !
Irreverent Lessons for
Leading Innovacion in the New Economy
The most successful companies
and workers in the emerging economic order are those who understand that most of the old
rules of running a business no longer apply. You can't solve today's problems with
yesterday's tools. New times call for new thinking.
Louis Patler, co-author of
the New York Times bestseller If it ain't broke... BREAK IT! and originator of Break-I
Thinking, now creates a whole new attitude and perspective for business. Revisiting the
old principles of quality and even speed, Patler replace them with values, beliefs and a
new "Thoughtware" for tomorrow's busipess leaders. Tilt! offers a wealth of
inspiring stories, anecdotes, lessons and tools drawn from today's most successful
companies (including toeing, British Airways, Xerox, Daimter-Benz, Intel, Motorola and
Toyotahand individuals, all told in Patler's inimitable, accessible, quick-firest;|le,
"If there wifean
established ratio^n the publishmg'world of 'ideas-per-pages,' Patler's new book would seta
record. Using a writing style that is delightfully conversational, Patter recounts
story-after-story about people in the business world. To each story, however, there are
critical lessons which he extracts, highlights, and emphasizes. The result is a one-man,
one-book creativity seminar of the first order. Your attitude, perspective, and leadership
goals will be shaken awake by Patler, and you'll find the pace of his book so
invigorating, you cannot go back to sleep!"
TOM BROWN, Resident,
Management General
"Patler's new book
is a complete bust! It will smash any lingering thoughts you may have about
business-as-usual or leadership as we once conceived it. A persuasive job of jarring us
into thinking in radically new ways to invent the future." PERRY PASCARELLA,
Leadership author and speaker
Award-winning author, speaker
and consultant, Louis Patler is President of The B.l.T. Group, an international
consulting, strategic research, and corporate training company based in California. Louis
brings pioneering technologies for strategy formation, practical problem solving, and
unparalleled quality service initiatives to Fortune 500 companies, multi-national
corporations, and foreign governments. Recently, J. Walter Thompson Agency named him one
of "The 20 Most Creative Minds in America". He is co-author of the New York
Times best seller, If it ain't broke... BREAK IT!: Unconventional Wisdom fora Changing
Business World.
270 pages