In Search of Excellence

Name: In Search of Excellence
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Thomas J. Peters
ISBN: 9780886840426

Author: Thomas J. Peters

Narrator: Thomas J. Peters

Unabridged: 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listen USA

Published: 01/01/1973

Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics, Self-help

Synopsis

Thomas Peters, PhD, the Author of best-selling In Search of Excellence, with an MBA and PhD from Stanford University and an Honorary Doctorate from the State University of Management in Moscow was a Navy Seabee in Vietnam, worked in the Pentagon & the White House and was a partner and business practice leader with McKinsey & Company.

About Thomas J. Peters

Thomas J. Peters, ""uber-guru of business"" (Fortune and The Economist), is the author of many international bestsellers, including A Passion for Excellence and Thriving on Chaos. Peters, ""the father of the post-modern corporation"" (Los Angeles Times), is the chairman of Tom Peters Company and lives in Vermont.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Scott on July 09, 2009

Why I Read this Book: I was interested to know what it is that makes companies excellent. If I plan to do any type of work at all, be it start a business or work for one, it is fundamental to understand how the great companies of the world have done it. Review: Most of you have probably heard of McKin......more

Goodreads review by Rohan on September 08, 2017

Read this during my MBA days. I'm going to quote from another book (Standard Deviations by Gary Smith) which I highly recommend and which might provide some perspective here "McKinsey, one of the world’s top consulting firms, asked two obscure consultants, Tom Peters and Robert Waterman, to take a loo......more

Goodreads review by Jen on July 02, 2009

After leaving my position as CEO of a small IT company after its new owner, an arrogant Wharton MBA, made my life hell, I decided to spend some time revisiting the old time business classics. While "In Search of Excellence, Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies" is truly an oldie, with several o......more

Goodreads review by Ramy on September 27, 2012

A must read for every business executive......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on May 22, 2014

I've read this book before. It was called every business book ever written ever. I realize this was one of the first and was ground breaking in its day but now its been reduced to a cliche. The books that followed are more detailed and more relevant for today's world. If you're interested in history......more