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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. September 11th, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Great Recession, the COVID pandemic, and polarized politics have created our own existential worries. It became required reading in business school classes. Perhaps not.

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Why “Company Culture” Is a Misleading Term

Harvard Business Review

Waterman’s In Search of Excellence , that praised the unique management structure and corporate culture of computer then-giant Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). As such, it is constantly changing as people contest and innovate upon the rules and ideas that constrain their actions and ideas. Peters and Robert H.