Tom Peters
Author of In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies
About the Author
Tom Peters, public speaker and author, graduated from Cornell University and received a M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has also received honorary doctorates from the University of San Francisco and Rhodes College. He was in the U. S. Navy during Vietnam and later served as a senior show more White House drug abuse advisor (1973-74). He worked for McKinsey & Company from 1974 to 1981. He holds about 75 seminars a year and has created and starred in a series of corporate training films. He is the co-author of In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies, which was a New York Times bestseller for three years. This book and subsequent titles have become bestsellers in Europe, Latin America and Asia. Peters contributes to several newspapers and journals, including writing a bimonthly column for Forbes ASAP. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Tom Peters
The Brand You 50 : Or : Fifty Ways to Transform Yourself from an 'Employee' into a Brand That Shouts Distinction,… (1999) 357 copies
The Project 50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters! (1999) 201 copies
The Professional Service Firm50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Your "Department" into a Professional… (1999) 165 copies
The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last (2018) 43 copies
Our Socially Awkward Marriage: Stories from an Adult Relationship on the Asperger's End of the Autism Spectrum (2016) 14 copies
SERVICE WITH SOUL TOM PETERS 6 copies
The Excellence Dividend: Principles for Prospering in Turbulent Times from a Lifetime in Pursuit of Excellence (2018) 6 copies
De dynamiek van het ondernemen kenmerken en praktijkvoorbeelden van innovatief leiderschap (1986) 3 copies
Gestionar con imaginación 2 copies
Prosperando no caos 2 copies
Reinventar o Mundo! 2 copies
Auf der Suche nach Spitzenleistungen. Sonderausgabe. Was man von den bestgeführten US-Unternehmen lernen kann (2004) 2 copies
The Work Matters! 1 copy
The Excellence Challenge: Winners Win Big, Paying Attention, Effective Wandering, Success by Small Wins, Heart & Soul… (1984) 1 copy
Hledání dokonalosti 1 copy
Prosperita se rodí z chaosu 1 copy
Excellente ondernemingen 1 copy
Auf der Suche nach Spitzenleistungen - Was man von den bestgeführten US-Unternehmen lernen kann 1 copy
¡Excelencia ahora!/ Excellence Now: Humanismo Extremo/ Extreme Humanism (Spanish Edition) (2022) 1 copy
An oral history with Hoyt Corbit: From Citrus Trees to Tract Homes; The Growth of Yorba Linda 1 copy
Credibility 1 copy
Tom Peters Lectures 1 copy
Innovation Revolution 1 copy
The Management Advantage 1 copy
Thriving on Chaos 1 copy
GESTIONAR CON IMAGINACIÓN 1 copy
Isinizi Yeniden Yaratin 1 copy
El proyecto 50 1 copy
Associated Works
The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm (2001) — Foreword — 833 copies
Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior (2004) — Foreword — 707 copies
NUTS! : Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success (1996) — Foreword — 489 copies
Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior, Second Edition (1672) — Foreword — 362 copies
Marketing Aesthetics: The Strategic Management of Brands, Identity and Image (1997) — Foreword — 61 copies
Hot Groups : Seeding Them, Feeding Them, and Using Them to Ignite Your Organization (1999) — Foreword — 41 copies
Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less: The Report of the National Performance Review (1993) — Foreword — 34 copies
Innovation : Breakthrough Thinking at 3M, DuPont, GE, Pfizer, and Rubbermaid (Businessmasters Series) (1997) — Foreword — 23 copies
Boss Talk: Top CEOs Share the Ideas That Drive the World's Most Successful Companies (2002) — Foreword — 8 copies
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- Legal name
- Peters, Thomas J.
- Birthdate
- 1942-11-07
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Places of residence
- Ithaca, New York, USA
Washington, D.C., USA - Education
- Cornell University (B.A. civil engineering ∙ 1965)
Cornell University (1966)
Stanford University (M.B.A.)
Stanford University (Ph.D) - Occupations
- naval officer
senior drug-abuse advisor
management consultant
independent consultant - Organizations
- United States Navy (1966-1970)
The White House (1973-1974)
McKinsey & Company (1974-1981) - Awards and honors
- honorary doctorate, State University of Management, Moscow, 2004
British Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) as one of the world's Quality Gurus., 1990 - Short biography
- Peters was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He went to Severn School for High School and attended Cornell University, receiving a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1965, and a master's degree in 1966. He then studied business at Stanford Business School, receiving an M.B.A. and Ph.D.. In 2004, he also received an honorary doctorate from the State University of Management in Moscow.
From 1966 to 1970, he served in the United States Navy, making two deployments to Vietnam as a Navy Seabee, then later working in the Pentagon. From 1973 to 1974, he worked in the White House as a senior drug-abuse advisor, during the Nixon administration. Peters has acknowledged the influence of military strategist Colonel John Boyd on his later writing.
From 1974 to 1981, Peters worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, becoming a partner and Organization Effectiveness practice leader in 1979, and then in 1981, he went solo and became an independent consultant.
In 1990, Tom Peters was honoured by the British Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) as one of the world's Quality Gurus.
Without much doubt, Peter Drucker and Tom Peters have shaped the idea of modern management more than any others over the last six decades. Drucker is said to have "invented" management as a discipline worthy of study—in particular, he gave management of large firms the essential tools to deal with their post-World War II enormity, complexity, and growing global reach. Tom Peters, in turn, led the way in preparing management for the current era of staggering change, starting in the mid-1970s.
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