Thomas Peters


The Importance Of Being Excellent

Jun 1, 1983

Just when you were getting used to Theory Z and the Japanese style of management, along come Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman to say that some Americans ...  Read story

The Sidelines Of Excellence

Aug 1, 1984

The "Excellence" business is booming. Thomas J. Peters, who, along with Robert H. Waterman Jr., wrote In Search of Excellence, still spends much of ...  Read story

When Everyone Was Excellent

By Joshua Hyatt |  May 15, 1999

With "In Search of Excellence," co-authors Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr. turned management advice into a fashion industry. Here are some overlo...  Read story

Every Employee An Entrepreneur

Apr 1, 1984

It seems an unusual soruce for the most provocative information about small and medium-size companies to emerge in the 1980s: McKinsey & Co., one of t...  Read story

Double Teaming

May 1, 1984

Millions have read the much-publicized book In Search of Excellence, by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr. One businessman, however, has actually...  Read story

Excellence In Medium-size Companies

Dec 1, 1983

While In Search of Excellence, by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr., continues to tear up the best-seller lists, two other consultants from McKi...  Read story

Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom

By Eugene Linden |  Apr 1, 1984

Some of America's biggest corporations are discovering that their future may depend on thinking small.  Read story

Three Companies In Search Of An Author

By Susan Benner |  Aug 1, 1984

Tom Peters' book on excellence has managers and employees alike changing the way they do business.  Read story

Peters' Principles: Secrets Of Growth

By Susan Benner |  Jul 1, 1983

In Search of Excellence confirms that the key to prosperity for companies large and small lies in a commitment to such irrational, difficult-to-measure thing...  Read story

How To Read A Business Best-seller

By Nelson W. Aldrich Jr. |  Feb 1, 1986

What the hottest management writers can't tell you about the companies they profile.  Read story

The Sequel Syndrome

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Jul 1, 1999

Reviews of seven business books. Includes follow-ups to three wildly successful best-sellers; two books about appealing to customers' dreams; and two classic...  Read story

For Service, Please Hold

By PAUL B. BROWN |  May 1, 1989

Inc. writer reviews seven new books on customer service.  Read story

Why Products Fail

May 1, 1984

It is a report with implications that should reverberate throughout the American economy. It looks at a new industry and asks an old question: What are the m...  Read story

Management By Walking Away

By Ellen Wojahn |  Oct 1, 1983

At Quad/Graphics, the employees run the show.  Read story

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