Leading Blog
DECEMBER 5, 2022
I IN 1982, Tom Peters and Bob Waterman released In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies. The book was a huge business bestseller and served as a guide for managers for many years to come. Yet, 40 years later, few now speak of the book. When the book project started in 1978, the U.S. Perhaps not.
Kevin Eikenberry
APRIL 27, 2014
By Ryan Tate This book’s title is a tip of the hat to Google’s famous 20% of time given to work on personal projects of interest. This isn’t really a new idea – Peters and Waterman made the idea of “skunkworks” famous in their book In Search of Excellence back in 1983. Yet the concept […].
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Lead Change Blog
FEBRUARY 2, 2017
Responding to a question about books he has found most helpful for his professional life, David praised In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman, Jr. Only one of our questions, “What is the most creative solution you’ve ever seen to a problem in life or work?” ” stumped David.
Leading Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2012
Many of the lessons learned from the disruptions discussed in the book boil down to adhocracy, say the authors. Adhocracy is adaptive, creative, flexible and non-permanent organizational style. “In Robert Waterman on Adhocracy.) If it were a musical genre, adhocracy would be jazz.”
Rich Gee Group
DECEMBER 10, 2010
home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 10 Gifts For You To Succeed In 2011. RUN OUT and Get This Book Today. Okay, I’ve never met the guy, but I do love his book. I use this book everyday.
The Center For Leadership Studies
APRIL 23, 2019
He used one creative instructional technique after another to make sense of all that was “organizational behavior” for the students in his classes. That course became a best-selling text book (“Management of Organizational Behavior”). In the fall of 1983, Tom Peters and Bob Waterman published “ In Search of Excellence.”
Tim Milburn
OCTOBER 2, 2013
In an article titled “Where Lying Was Business as Usual,” Business Week reviewed a book on the Wedtech Scandal, a Washington scandal of the late eighties in which a few government officials fed fat contracts to a dubious supplier. Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change.
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