In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies » (Special Value)

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.

The "Greatest Business Book of All Time" (Bloomsbury UK), In Search of Excellence has long been a must-have for the boardroom, business school, and bedside table.

Based on a study of forty-three of America's best-run companies from a diverse array of business sectors, In Search of Excellence describes eight basic principles of management — action-stimulating, people-oriented, profit-maximizing practices — that made these organizations successful.

Joining the HarperBusiness Essentials series, this phenomenal bestseller features a new Authors' Note, and reintroduces these vital principles in an accessible and practical way for today's management reader.

Wall Street Journal

Exuberant and absorbing . . . one of those rare books on management that are both consistently thought-provoking and fun to read.

Acknowledgments

Special Acknowledgment.- David G. Anderson

Preface

Introduction

PART 1: THE SAVING REMNANT

1 Successful American Companies

PART II: TOWARD NEW THEORY

2 The Rational Model

3 Man Waiting for Motivation

PART III: BACK TO BASICS

4 Managing Ambiguity and Paradox

11 Simple Form, Lean Staff

12 Simultaneous Loose-Tight Properties

Notes

Index