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?
Michael Lee Stallard
NOVEMBER 23, 2014
Tom Peters and Robert Waterman called it “management by wandering around” or “MBWA” in their classic book In Search of Excellence. Identifies Systemic Problems. Employee engagement surveys also help identify more systemic problems that require systemic interventions. Identifies Role Models and Mentors.
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Leading Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2012
We can design—and redesign—organizations, institutions, and systems to better absorb disruption, operate under a wider variety of conditions, and shift more fluidly from one circumstance to the next.” Robert Waterman on Adhocracy.) Resilience-thinking is not the same thing as being in a defensive mode.
Lead Change Blog
FEBRUARY 2, 2017
He is a co-author of The IMAGE/3000 Handbook, the reference work for the HP 3000 IMAGE database management system. Responding to a question about books he has found most helpful for his professional life, David praised In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman, Jr.
The Practical Leader
MAY 16, 2012
Excellence author and management consultant, Bob Waterman explains, “Carrying out a decision doesn’t start after the decision; it starts with the decision. But improvements made by those who are using the process or system everyday are far more likely to be practical and relevant.
Tim Milburn
OCTOBER 2, 2013
Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change. In a particularly clever step, the workers created a system of organization called the honeycomb structure and organized themselves into families: the turbine family, the coal-pile family, and the scrubber family. A System For Rapid Realignment.'
Eric Jacobson
SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change. In a particularly clever step, the workers created a system of organization called the honeycomb structure and organized themselves into families: the turbine family, the coal-pile family, and the scrubber family. It was no longer an acceptable excuse.
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