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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

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. Then things changed — in a hurry! It was really the first book on management, leadership and organizational culture that was universally embraced.

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