Tom Peters on Innovation for Today

Tom Peters has scribbled down 121 (and counting) rules for innovation, which he has posted over the last week or so, though he keeps adding to them. He has a PDF of them here. A lot of them overlap, and some of them are just plain duplicates -- 33 and 42 both call on companies to be diverse, but to avoid old people (though Peters thinks the over-55 demographic (or what he calls the Boomer-Geezers) "is the market -- the rest is details," he doesn't think companies should expect old people -- and he himself is 66 -- to innovate). He also reminds us more than once to celebrate failures.

There is a nice collection of quotes on innovation in an appendix, as well.

Depending on your vacation time, he's created an innovation thought for the entire work year. I wonder why he didn't create the Tom Peters! 2009 Innovation Calendar.