Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution

by Tom Peters

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Forty-five prescriptions specify what managers at every level must do if the organizations they lead are to survive in today's chaotic economic environment.

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This is my one of my favorite business books. I love the Nordstroms stories.
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-leadership through innovation and flexibility in management style and organizational structure
Co-Author Of in Search of Excellence And A Passion For Excellence.

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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

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Original publication date
1987
Epigraph
Three outstanding attitudes -- obliviousness to the growing disaffection of constituents, primacy of self-aggrandizement, [and the] illusion of invulnerable status -- are persistent aspects of folly. -- Barbara Tuchman, Th... (show all)e March of Folly
Dedication
To Roger Milliken and William Donald Schaefer, two whose flexibility of mind and raging impatience with inaction have inspired the most dramatic and fruitful organizational revolutions I've witnessed.
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Few would take exception to the conclusion that our sales forces are not sufficiently cherished.
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(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)So perhaps "purposeful chaos" is the best description of the new-look firm.
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Townsend, Robert; Weaver, Paul H.; Stephenson, Stan

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HD70 .U5 .P426Social sciencesIndustries. Land use. LaborIndustries. Land use. LaborManagement. Industrial management
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