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Leading Thoughts for June 29, 2023

Leading Blog

Robert Waterman on bureaucracies: “Bureaucracy gets us through the day; it deals efficiently with everyday problems. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. The lie that you are separate is the problem.

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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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Leading Views: Good Poker Players Know When to Fold

Leading Blog

In Adhocracy , Robert Waterman notes that “Bureaucracy gets us through the day; it deals efficiently with everyday problems. Waterman explains: Stud poker is a good metaphor for this process. In stud poker, as in product development or any other ad hoc work, you don’t know whether you have a winner until the last card has been played.

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Closing Your Company’s “Leadership Gap”

Michael Lee Stallard

Tom Peters and Robert Waterman called it “management by wandering around” or “MBWA” in their classic book In Search of Excellence. Because they didn’t address these leadership gaps, cynicism and disengagement developed among the people they were responsible for leading and it eventually sabotaged performance.

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Resilience: How We Can Learn to Bounce Forward

Leading Blog

Robert Waterman on Adhocracy.) They caution: “When systems are structurally overconnected … or when interventions are bureaucratically imposed on communities rather than developed with them, there is no space for adhocracy to germinate.” If it were a musical genre, adhocracy would be jazz.”

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10 Gifts For You To Succeed In 2011.

Rich Gee Group

He not only develops and publishes the bible on “Book Yourself Solid”, in it, he links to a workbook which is a very powerful way for one to really LEARN his techniques. Peters and Waterman — “In Search of Excellence”. Next post: Developing The CEO Within You. Okay, I’ve never met the guy, but I do love his book. Smile or Die!

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A Moment of Reflection on 50 Years

The Center For Leadership Studies

By 1983, there was certainly awareness and interest in developing leaders, but comparatively few organizations were ready to dive in, make it a priority and commit serious resources to the cause. In the fall of 1983, Tom Peters and Bob Waterman published “ In Search of Excellence.” Then things changed — in a hurry!

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