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. Yet, Peters and Waterman pointed out that there were bright spots in the economy. Hands-on, value-driven leadership. It became required reading in business school classes. Feel familiar? Perhaps not.

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Kevin Eikenberry

APRIL 27, 2014

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. Books Creativity Innovation Leadership Learning Solving Problems' Yet the concept […].

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

” When asked about a leadership lesson he learned from her first job, David replies concisely: “Do what is expected of you.” 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. ” stumped David.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Adhocracy is adaptive, creative, flexible and non-permanent organizational style. “In Robert Waterman on Adhocracy.) In the digital age, an adhocracy can be put together in a plug-and-play, Lego-like way, well suited in fast-moving, fluid circumstances where you don’t know what you’ll need next.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 23, 2019

I started working at The Center for Leadership Studies (CLS) in June of 1983, and I was so very honored to do so! We had a packaged program ( The Essentials of Situational Leadership ® ) that I was responsible for selling and, if need be, facilitating. My job at CLS was well-defined. There was no internet. Nobody Googled anything.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Peters and Waterman — “In Search of Excellence”. This work by Rich Gee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Every so often, a person comes along, writes a book, and changes the way people act. Napoleon Hill did it with”Think and Grow Rich”. And Keith Ferrazzi — “Never Eat Alone”. Unported License.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change. Asking tough questions has become a hallmark of AT&T research culture and has helped to establish Bell Laboratories as one of the great creative institutions in America. Focused leadership over time implies productive, useful perseverance.

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