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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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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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Avoid These Traps and LOL for Peak Performance

The Practical Leader

In their classic bestseller, In Search of Excellence , Tom Peters and Bob Waterman popularized their finding that effective leaders spend huge amounts of time managing by wandering around (MBWA) with customers, suppliers, and staff. They must clearly see leadership or change messages led out loud.