Ten years ago, give or take a few days, I got one of the first copies of In Search of Excellence. A few weeks later, it slipped onto bookstore shelves with little or no notice. A few months after that ...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates said,”Hey, size works against excellence” in an April 1992 interview in Upside magazine. For his sake and the economy”s, I hope he”s wrong. But I fear he”s right. The ...

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SOUTH DARTMOUTH — For decades, Tom Peters has been a leading figure in the business world, not only for his successful 1982 book "In Search of Excellence," but for ahead-of-his-time insights and ideas ...

Theodore Kinni argues in Strategy + Business that leaders must practice management by walking around (MBWA), a concept popularized by Tom Peters and Bob Waterman in their seminal book, In Search of ...

Tom Peters is a leading business mind and the bestselling author of sixteen books, including In Search of Excellence (with Robert H. Waterman, Jr.), which is often cited among the best business books ...