The Pursuit of Wow!

by Tom Peters

On This Page

Description

The author offers over two hundred observations and thoughts on how to get ahead and stay ahead in business and in life.

Tags

Recommendations

Member Reviews

Members

Recently Added By

Author Information

Picture of author.
127+ Works 8,216 Members
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 White House drug abuse advisor (1973-74). He worked show more 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

Common Knowledge

Epigraph
What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter. -- Henry David Thoreau
Dedication
for Robert and Sarah
First words
This book is about generating yeasty responses -- personal and corporate -- to these very yeasty, and frequently frightening, times.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)210: "There are more things in heaven and on earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy." William Shakespeare

Classifications

Genres
Business, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
658.406Applied Science & TechnologyManagement & public relationsGeneral managementExecutiveManaging Change
LCC
HD58.8 .P482Social sciencesIndustries. Land use. LaborIndustries. Land use. LaborOrganizational behavior, change and
BISAC

Statistics

Members
511
Popularity
58,465
Reviews
2
Rating
½ (3.45)
Languages
English, Portuguese
Media
Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
ISBNs
8
ASINs
3