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“In Search of Excellence” Revisited

Leading Blog

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. Buried within the text, Peters and Waterman offer the bottom line of how to identify excellence in companies. Feel familiar?

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Why only long-term, high-impact books become business “classics”

First Friday Book Synopsis

We seem to live in an age of instant gratification during which the average attention span resembles a strobe light blink and most people are only interested in (often obsessed with) the latest, “the best,” what’s new, the biggest, the fastest, what “they” recommend, etc. It was a 12th century French Neo-Platonist philosopher, Bernard of [.].

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A Moment of Reflection on 50 Years

The Center For Leadership Studies

He used one creative instructional technique after another to make sense of all that was “organizational behavior” for the students in his classes. In the fall of 1983, Tom Peters and Bob Waterman published “ In Search of Excellence.” The very first thing we did was sit down with a collection of long-term CLS customers.

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