Tom Peters

Organized into more than 200 thought- and action-provoking elements—from the importance of clean trucks and bathrooms to conversations with entrepreneurs creating new markets—Tom Peters, bestselling management guru offers a practical guide to impractical times. In The Pursuit of Wow!, Tom Peters offers readers the words, the tools, to survive in tumultuous business environments. In his groundbreaking book, In Search of Excellence changed the way business does business. Now it’s time to take the next leap into the cyberstage era. Getting to a place called excellence is no longer the idea. You’ve got to take that leap, then leap again—catapult their imaginations, blow their mindsets—in a word, wow! them. Once more the unconventional Peters stimulates corporate thought processes. Along with the best of his columns, Peters includes questions and rebuttals that come from readers and listeners, as well as his own candid responses. A must-read for every business person.

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Michael Goldhaber, writing in Wired, said, "If there is nothing very special about your work, no matter how hard you apply yourself you won't get noticed and that increasingly means you won't get paid much either. In times past you could be obscure yet secure -- now that's much harder." the white collar job as now configured is doomed. Soon. ("Downsizing" in the nineties will look like small change.) So what's the trick? There's only distinction. Or as we call it, turning yourself into a brand . . . Brand You.A brand is nothing more than a sign of distinction. Right? Nike. Starbucks. Martha Stewart. The point (again): that's not the way we've thought about white collar workers--ourselves--over the past century. The "bureaucrat" on the finance staff is de facto faceless, plugging away, passing papers.But now, in our view, she is born again, transformed from bureaucrat to the new star. She works in a professional service firm and works on projects that she'll be able to brag about years from now.I call her/him the New American Professional, CEO of Me Inc. (even if Me Inc. is currently on someone's payroll) and, of course, of Brand You.Step #1 in the model was the organization . . .a department turned into PSF 1.0. Step #2 is the individual . . .reborn as Brand You.In 50 essential points, Tom Peters shows how to be committed to your craft, choose the right projects, how to improve networking, why you need to think fun is cool, and why it's important to piss some people off. He will enable you to turn yourself into an important and distinctive commodity. In short, he will show you how to turn yourself into . . . Brand You.See also the other 50List titles in the Reinventing Work series by Tom Peters -- The Project50 and The Professional Service Firm50 -- for additional information on how to make an impact in the professional world.

In 1982, business guru Tom Peters co-authored In Search of Excellence , one of the most influential business guides of all time. More recently, through 400 seminars in 47 states and 22 countries, Peters reexamined, refined and reinvented his views on innovation--the #1 survival strategy, he asserts, for businesses of the next millennium.The Circle of Innovation brings these seminars--and Peters' contagious passion--to the reader in a landmark book. Through bold graphics, astounding facts and figures, and quotes whose sources range from Émile Zola to Steve Jobs, Peters blows the lid off accepted management styles. Here is a book that will open your eyes to new ways of envisioning the challenges of today's world. Here, too, is a practical guide that will teach you how - reverse the rising tide of product and service "commoditization" and foster uniqueness- capitalize on the skyrocketing purchasing power of women- convert sluggish staff into vital centers of intellectual capital accumulation- build systems of elegance and beauty- liberate your creativity and individual leadership styleWhether you manage a six-person department or a 60,000-body behemoth, The Circle of Innovation empowers you to transform your organization, your career, yourself. Inspiring, timely, this blueprint for success is pure Peters--a handbook as energetic as it is profound.

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"Tom Peters' new book is a bundle of beautiful dynamite. While I've been a CEO for 30 years, I still learned much worth knowing from The Excellence Dividend. You will too." --John C. Bogle, founder, Vanguard For decades Tom Peters has been preaching the gospel of putting people first, and in today's rapidly changing business environment, this message is more important than ever. With his unparalleled expertise and inimitable charisma, Peters offers brilliantly simple, actionable guidelines for success that any business leader can immediately implement. He provides a roadmap for your organization and for you as an individual to thrive amidst the tech tsunami, and he has a lot of fun doing it. The Excellence Dividend is an important new book from one of today's greatest business thinkers.

The common denominator/bottom line for both the professional service firm/PSF and the individual/Brand You is: the project. And for the cool individual in the cool professional service firm there is only one answer: the cool project.A seminar participant said: "Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes." So, how many of you are at work -- right now -- on "mediocre successes"? At work on projects that won't be recalled, let alone recalled with fondness and glee, a year from now?We don't study professional service firms. (Mistake.) And we don't study WOW Projects. (Worse mistake.) There is, of course, a project management literature. But it's awful. Or, at least, misleading. It focuses almost exclusively on the details of planning and tracking progress and totally ignores the important stuff like: Is it cool? Is it beautiful? Will it make a difference? My No.1 epithet: "On time . . . on budget . . . who cares?" I.e., does it matter? Will you be bragging about it two--or ten--years from now? Is it a WOW project?So, then: Step #1 . . .the organization . . .the professional service firm/PSF 1.0. Step 2 . . .the individual . . .the pursuit of distinction/Brand You. And: Step #3 . . . the work itself . . . the memorable project/WOW Projects.The Project50 is a simple and handy guide that provides 50 easy steps to help the modern businessperson choose the right project, find the right team, develop strategies for success, and ultimately know when it's time to move on.See also the other 50List titles in the Reinventing Work series by Tom Peters -- The Brand You50 and The Professional Service Firm50 -- for additional information on how to make an impact in the professional world.

This volume brings together the best of the Tom Peters seminars—complete with visual materials.The Tom Peters Seminar demonstrates Peters' unconventional analysis that challenges outdated corporate structures and demonstrates that "imagination is the source of value in the economy." Peters' bold ideas vault business thinking beyond change—toward invention and revolution.

An inspirational and informative series of compact handbooks by the influential management guru and author of the best-selling In Search of Excellence sheds new light on key concepts in the business world and provides helpful guidance on how to achieve success in the high-pressure, fast-moving arena of modern business.

Transform white collar departments into "professional service firms" whose sole, powerful asset is knowledge. You are boss of a 23-person finance department in a division of a big company. Or, rather, you were boss of the finance department. Now, per our suggestion-model, you are Managing Partner, Finance Inc., a full-fledged professional service firm which is a wholly owned subsidiary of your division. Learn from the best professional service firms! Transform your unit! Today, even after re-engineering done well, the "department" doesn't look much like McKinsey, Andersen or Chiat Day. (And that's an understatement!)Aim, in Cool people (call them "talent") working on cool projects with cool clients. The aim A cool Finance/Purchasing, IS, HR, Sales department. Why not?The cool professional service firm is just cool people/talent, a portfolio of cool projects, cool clients. Period. It's only asset -- literally -- is brains. It's only product is projects. It's only aim is truly memorable client service.So step #1, then, is the organization (PSF) . . . transforming "departments" in which white collar folks work into way cool professional sercie firms adding way cool value by doing way cool "stuff".Peters discusses making the most of presentations, working with outsiders on market analysis, how to imporve brainstorming meetings, how to develop relationships with clients and get the most out of them.50 of Tom Peters's trademark insights on how to get the most our of your department.See also the other 50List titles in the Reinventing Work series by Tom Peters -- The Brand You50 and The Project50 -- for additional information on how to make an impact in the professional world.

An inspirational and informative series of compact handbooks by the influential management guru and author of the best-selling In Search of Excellence sheds new light on key concepts in the business world and provides helpful guidance on how to achieve success in the high-pressure, fast-moving arena of modern business.

An inspirational and informative series of compact handbooks by the influential management guru and author of the best-selling In Search of Excellence sheds new light on key concepts in the business world and provides helpful guidance on how to achieve success in the high-pressure, fast-moving arena of modern business.

The business management guru and author of In Search of Excellence presents a thought-provoking, inspirational look at the changing world of twenty-first-century business that introduces innovative strategies for overcoming outdated company values and procesures to create an aggressive environment that empowers talented individuals. Reprint.

"It is [Tom] Peters—as consultant, writer, columnist, seminar lecturer, and stage performer—whose energy, style, influence, and ideas have [most] shaped new management thinking.” — Movers and The 100 Most Influential Figures in Modern Business “We live in a Tom Peters world.” — Fortune Magazine Business uber-guru Tom Peters is back with his first book in a decade, The Little Big Things . In this age of economic recession and financial uncertainty, the patented Peters approach to business and management—no-nonsense, witty, down-to-earth, insightful—is more pertinent now than ever. As essential for small-business owners as it is for the heads of major corporations, The Little Big Things is a rousing call-to-arms to American business to get “back to the basics” of running a successful enterprise.

Tom Peter's is back and in his own words-he's "Mad as Hell." Breaking down the message from his bestselling Re-Imagine!, these four pocket-sized books deliver crucial business truths to those who are looking for inspiration on leadership, innovation, design, or women in business.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 White House drug abuse advisor (1973-74). He worked for McKinsey & Company from 1974 to 1981. He holds about seventy-five seminars a year and has created and starred in a series of corporate training films.

In the new economy, hierarchical business structures are being consigned to the shredder and replaced with flexible, fast-responding, ad hoc groups of brainworkers. Tom Peters, author of the bestselling IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE is once again ahead of the curve, and now demonstrates that the key to success in business future is total engagement, dynamism, speed, and independence."Rewarding. Provides a wealth of thought-provoking information and incisive insights."PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER"A gold mine of information."USA TODAY

Tom's new book, The Little BIG Things, is a compendium of 163 ways to pursue excellence—with tips ranging from the blatantly obvious, "Show Up! (It's a Start.)" and "It's All About ... the Quality of the Workforce," to the wildly counterintuitive, "Boring Is Beautiful" and "Reward DNK (Do Not Know)," to the often repeated, "The Customer Is 'She.'" Begun as a repackaging of the Success Tips from our blog, this book became so much more as Tom worked and reworked its contents. Now, its main message is that EXCELLENCE is the result of many small tasks, all of which can be practiced and mastered. The Little BIG Things are meant to be sampled, a bit at a time. As Tom says in the Introduction, "My colleagues and I mostly expect you to read the book while sitting on the toilet. (Literally or figuratively.) That is, we hardly imagine that you'll breathlessly read the whole thing from start to finish. Instead, I imagine you'll look at this idea or that—and I obviously hope that a few will be compelling enough to induce you to take action."

Excellence Extreme Humanism This beautifully-designed book by award-winning design firm, Donovan/Green, captures Tom’s timeless and new lessons in leadership for NOW. Called the "Greatest Business Book of All Time" (Bloomsbury UK), Tom and Robert Waterman’s In Search of Excellence launched a maverick approach to management thinking in 1982. Tom’s seventeen books since have been cornerstones of management lessons from business schools to boardrooms. With Excellence Extreme Humanism, Tom sets an even higher bar given the state of our world today. Why “Extreme Humanism”? Tom will show how excellence in leadership is achieved by an obsessive focus on the growth of those you are leading. Reflecting on how to lead in current conditions, Tom says, “What you are doing right now will be the hallmark of your entire career.” Fans who await Tom’s next bold insights based on decades of research and on-the-ground, (e.g. Twitter - @tom_peters) steely observations, will once again find themselves immersed in a rich world of people-first wisdom. Excellence Extreme Humanism will long serve as a business bible for both individuals and organizations—large and small. Excellence Now powerfully delivers the management and leadership direction for how to move forward in a world turned upside down.

Tom Peters’ Compact Guide to Excellence (IdeaPress Publishing) is full of inspiration for anyone aged 20 to 80, from cashiers to CEOs. Legendary best-selling business author Tom Peters partnered with the iconic designer Nancye Green of Donovan/Green to create this guidebook for leaders in the workplace. Peters and Green have packed this strikingly designed little book with exhilarating quotes that will urge you to recognize what truly matters at work. Over the decades, Peters has gathered these gems of wisdom from those who have been down in the trenches creating extraordinary places to work. Green has wrought the most accessible and captivating way to absorb that wisdom.Tom Peters’ Compact Guide to Excellence argues that business leaders must start putting people really first and start helping them prepare for a rocky future. As we come to terms with the debilitating pandemic, confront extreme wealth inequality, and wrestle with destabilizing technological revolutions still in their infancy, it is clear that “Extreme Humanism”—treating one another humanely—is the best path forward.The insights you’ll find in Tom Peters’ Compact Guide to Excellence will move you to action, to vigorously and passionately support our communities, provide products and services that stun our clientele with their excellence and verve, and serve our ailing planet. It’s not just the best path forward, it’s the path that can engender purpose and pride in all of us who perform the work. Take this guidebook to work, on your travels, wherever you need to be reminded of excellence. Better yet, share this book—an exquisite gift—with anyone who needs a jolt of genius.

The coauthor of In Search of Excellence offers practical insights on business, management, leadership, and success. This audio program covers listening to customers, noting symbols, circulating, motivating others, and striving for top-notch quality and service.

Tom Peters’ new vook, The Little BIG Leadership, is a compendium of ways to pursue excellence. Its main message is that LEADERSHIP is the result of many small tasks, all of which can be practiced and mastered. The Little BIG Things are meant to be sampled, a bit at a time. Throughout this vook, you are given easy-to-follow advice from Tom on the small and easy things you can do to improve your life, but that are often overlooked. In this competitive business market, every little thing counts, and this vook reminds you of all the small things you can do on a daily basis that can make a big difference in the long run. This vook combines 25 “Little BIG Things” and 15 instructional videos, to give you a clear idea of how to achieve excellence in both you business and personal life..

New York Times bestselling author and business legend Tom Peters believes that we are all part of one industry – professional services - whether we label it manufacturing or retailing or banking. In this beautifully designed book, he argues that thinking and acting like a professional-services firm is the best (only!) way to add value to our products, companies, and careers. Here are his 55 key ideas, culled from this 30-plus-year career as a preeminent business thinker.

The world's foremost producer of personal development and motivational audio programs now brings you the means to achieve excellence in any organization. From Tom Peters and Robert Townsend, two of America's most highly respected and widely known management watchers, thinkers, and doers, comes an innovative, informative discussion of their favorite subjects-- American management, getting ahead, making good products, treating people right and striving for excellence.Peters and Townsend excel at clearing out mental cobwebs and cliche thinking. With "Excellence in the Organization", you'll notice new things about your organization and how it works-- and, most importantly, how it can be modified for optimum efficiency and satisfaction. Listen as the authors tell you how to:Become highly successful at delegatingDe-clutter your lifeRecognize a great leaderNurture innovation in your organization

Tom Peters is universally recognized as the foremost management guru of our time. He is the co-author of the landmark In Search of Excellence, which changed the way that an entire generation thought about business. Now, in a revolutionary new audio, Peters once again challenges us - this time to undertake nothing less than a complete reinvention of work: how we think about it, how we bring ourselves to it, how we do it.Reinventing Work presents a different approach to work, based on three lists of 50 ideas designed to enable you to protect yourself and your work with maximum effectiveness to thrive in the dynamically competitive environment of the 21st century.The Brand You50 explains how to transform yourself into a dynamic and daring employee, a brand name (Brand You) that stands for distinction, commitment, and passionThe Project50 explains how to transform every task into a memorable, high-impact project that demonstrates your work makes a difference.The Professional Service Firm50 explains how to transform your department into a "professional service firm" whose trademarks are passion and innovation and whose sole, powerful asset is knowledge.With this audio, listeners will be equipped to reinvent themselves to keep pace with the reinvention of work itself - which will be one of the principal hallmarks of life in the new century.

For more than three decades, New York Times bestselling author and business legend Tom Peters has been obsessed with Excellence (with a capital E). In this beautifully designed book – the first in a series summing up all that Tom has learned - he’s sharing his thoughts, ideas, inspirations, formulas, stories, tips, lessons, experiences, examples, and, perhaps most important, attitude. The bottom Don’t ask what Excellence is. Ask when. Tom’s Excellence Now.

In this latest installment of Tom Peters' continued distillation of what he's learned over the course of his career, he turns to what's perhaps the essence of (captial E intended) getting things done. Given Peters' intellectual discipline, it takes the form of a list of 44 items. And given Peters' appreciation of the unexpected, there are a few asides.

KF8 Fixed FormatLeading management thinker and bestselling author Tom Peters has spent more than three decades working to understand how excellent businesses and managers work. In this short, highly designed book, he's distilled his discoveries into four key principles - the first things, as he puts it - that every businessperson needs to know first.

There is a new, highly personalized, more entrepreneurial environment being created inside today's most successful organizations. There is an intense focus on the customer, the quality of the product, and the contribution of each individual.In this program, hear Tom Peters (co-author of In Search of Excellence and A Passion for Excellence) as he presents in his unique, exciting, and dynamic style his newest ideas. Find out what you'll have to do to compete and win in the new business climate.Peters discusses the changes new competitors are making in their companies, and shows you how to implement "pockets of excellence" in your workplace.

Tom's new book, The Little BIG Things, is a compendium of 163 ways to pursue excellence—with tips ranging from the blatantly obvious, "Show Up! (It's a Start.)" and "It's All About ... the Quality of the Workforce," to the wildly counterintuitive, "Boring Is Beautiful" and "Reward DNK (Do Not Know)," to the often repeated, "The Customer Is 'She.'" Begun as a repackaging of the Success Tips from our blog, this book became so much more as Tom worked and reworked its contents. Now, its main message is that EXCELLENCE is the result of many small tasks, all of which can be practiced and mastered. The Little BIG Things are meant to be sampled, a bit at a time. As Tom says in the Introduction, "My colleagues and I mostly expect you to read the book while sitting on the toilet. (Literally or figuratively.) That is, we hardly imagine that you'll breathlessly read the whole thing from start to finish. Instead, I imagine you'll look at this idea or that—and I obviously hope that a few will be compelling enough to induce you to take action."