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In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies
In Search of Excellence Lessons from America's BestRun Companies
Author: Thomas Peters
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,...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780446382816
ISBN-10: 0446382817
Publication Date: 3/1985
Pages: 360
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Publisher: Warner Books C/o Little Br
Book Type: Paperback
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An excellent account on what makes a great business; loaded with anecdotes and practical applications. Much of what is discussed is still applicable to today's businesses.
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Few people can lay claim to having created an industry. TomPeters can.

Tom Peters is widely credited with having created themanagement guru industry. Before him it is said that "management thinkers wrote articles in academic journals, gave the occasional seminar, and worked as consultants for a few large corporations". The biggest blockbusters sold under five hundred thousand books.

`In Search of Excellence', co-authored with Bob Waterman, is Tom Peters first book and sold over 6 million copies. Its success surprised their colleagues at McKinsey, who had laughed at the idea that Peters and Waterman would keep the royalties, "should the book sell 50 000 copies".


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