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, Peters and Waterman pointed out that there were bright spots in the economy. Feel familiar? Perhaps not.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He is a co-author of The IMAGE/3000 Handbook, the reference work for the HP 3000 IMAGE database management system. 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. ” We can relate, David.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 23, 2019

There were no lists of training professionals you could purchase with up-to-date contact information for the person making leadership and management training decisions. He used one creative instructional technique after another to make sense of all that was “organizational behavior” for the students in his classes.

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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 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.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change. The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. Business Month named MCI one of the five best-managed companies in 1990.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change. The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. Business Month named MCI one of the five best-managed companies in 1990.

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