In Search of Excellence : Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman

In Search of Excellence : Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies
Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman

Format: Paperback, 400pp.
ISBN: 9780060548780
Publisher: Collins
Pub. Date: Reprint edition March 2004 (1982)

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From The Publisher:

The "Greatest Business Book of All Time" (Bloomsbury UK), In Search of Excellence has long been a must-have for the boardroom, business school, and bedside table.

Based on a study of forty-three of America's best-run companies from a diverse array of business sectors, In Search of Excellence describes eight basic principles of management -- action-stimulating, people-oriented, profit-maximizing practices -- that made these organizations successful.

Joining the HarperBusiness Essentials series, this phenomenal bestseller features a new Authors' Note, and reintroduces these vital principles in an accessible and practical way for today's management reader.

About the Authors

Thomas J. Peters, "uber-guru of business" (Fortune and The Economist), is the author of many international bestsellers, including A Passion for Excellence and Thriving on Chaos. Peters, "the father of the post-modern corporation" (Los Angeles Times), is the chairman of Tom Peters Company and lives in Vermont. Robert H. Waterman, Jr. is the bestselling author of The Renewal Factor, Adhocracy, and What America Does Right, and the director of The Waterman Group, Inc.

Table of Contents


	Acknowledgments
	Special Acknowledgment.- David G. Anderson
	Preface
	Introduction

	PART 1: THE SAVING REMNANT
1	Successful American Companies

	PART II: TOWARD NEW THEORY
2	The Rational Model
3	Man Waiting for Motivation

	PART III: BACK TO BASICS
4	Managing Ambiguity and Paradox
5	A Bias For Action
6	Close to the Customer
7	Autonomy and Entrepreneurship
8	Productivity Through People
9	Hands-On, Value-Driven
10	Stick to the Knitting
11	Simple Form, Lean Staff
12	Simultaneous Loose-Tight Properties
	Notes
	Index

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