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. 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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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 23, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Battle of Agincourt Be accessible to answer questions and address concerns Bill Hewlett Bob Waterman David Packard General Dwight Eisenhower Harper & Row Henry V Homer''s Iliad In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America''s Best-Run Companies Increase morale among the workforce Nourish pride and enthusiasm Obtain unfiltered (..)

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change. Business leaders in the United States have shunned talking about values, because they seem to suggest a religious or moral outlook. ” ACCOUNTABILITY. It narrates an engaging story about accountability in an energy-cogenerating firm called AES.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change. Business leaders in the United States have shunned talking about values, because they seem to suggest a religious or moral outlook. It''s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington''s corridors of power, they didn''t even stand Out."

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

Waterman’s In Search of Excellence , that praised the unique management structure and corporate culture of computer then-giant Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). A great deal of ink has been spent over the past thirty years or so on the idea of corporate or organizational culture. Peters and Robert H. In the 19 th Century, E.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

My contention, though, is that in looking at some of the beguilements — moral, even existential — beckoning to consultants over the last two decades, and at what we know about how Gupta responded to them, we might possibly begin to better understand how he could have gotten himself into the current mess.

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