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. When the book project started in 1978, the U.S. Yet, Peters and Waterman pointed out that there were bright spots in the economy. It became required reading in business school classes. Feel familiar? Perhaps not.

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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. Books Creativity Innovation Leadership Learning Solving Problems'

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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. In the fall of 1983, Tom Peters and Bob Waterman published “ In Search of Excellence.” PI was a custom house that lived project to project for the better part of 25 years.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 10, 2010

And this employee/object will remain at rest (no movement – no raises, no promotions, no new projects, no GROWTH) until “a sum of physical forces” are acted upon it. Peters and Waterman — “In Search of Excellence”. This work by Rich Gee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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