Tom Peters

It's crunch time – learn to re-write the corporate rule book with management guru Tom Peters. Discover how to re-write the corporate rule book with this new edition from the world's most influential management guru, Tom Peters. See how he predicts the death of bureaucracy and why he thinks business is cool. Develop strategies to get ahead of the competition and become an enterprising, ideas-driven organisation, one that empowers individuals so you become a business known for innovation and excellence. A wake-up call for managers and executives everywhere who want to stay ahead of the game and get on the route to innovation for business excellence.

Dokonalosti – či chcete-li excelentnosti – se dosahuje vykonáváním spousty "drobných" činností, často s blahosklonnou přezíravostí přehlížených, které však mohou změnit nejen nás samé, ale i organizace, v nichž pracujeme, a svět, který nás obklopuje. S patřičnou dávkou nakažlivého zaujetí, naléhavosti, přesvědčivosti, ale i humoru autor - guru světového managementu, lektor, konzultant, spoluautor mezinárodního bestselleru "In Search of Excellence" ("Hledání dokonalosti") - ve své nové knize předkládá 163 doporučení, která podnikatelům a manažerům neustále připomínají, že nejdůležitějším aktivem jsou lidé a že posláním organizací je služba.

This is an updated edition of the classic bestseller - the most famous book by the world's most trusted management guru. In 1999 Americans rated "In Search of Excellence" one of the 'top three business books of the 20th century'. In 2000 Bloomsbury published an opinion poll ranking it 'The Greatest Business Book of All Time'. Now it is comprehensively updated for the 21st century by the authors.

This year's winner of the Thinkers 50 Lifetime Achievement Award and the CEO Reads Lifetime Contribution to the Business Book Industry Award, Tom Peters' one of the world's most revered management gurus and global business thinkers. Tom co-authored the million copy selling IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE 35 years ago and has since been hailed as "the consultant, writer, columnist, seminar lecturer, and stage performer-whose energy, style, influence, and ideas have shaped new management thinking" in Movers and Shakers: The 100 Most Influential Figures in Modern Business. Tom was ranked behind the Pope & Stephen Hawking, but ahead of Elon Musk, Eric Schmidt, George Soros and Michael Porter according to Thought Leaders 2014: The Most Influential Thinkers, by MIT and a Swiss Think Tank raking of influencers and creative minds. Tom is a keen tweeter, voracious reader, and endlessly enthusiastic. Born in Baltimore, Tom earned an MBA and a Ph.D. in business at Stanford and he holds honorary doctorates from institutions that range from the University of San Francisco to the State University of Management in Moscow and has been honored by dozens of associations in content areas such as management, leadership, quality, human resources, customer service, innovation, marketing, and design. Tom served in the U.S. Navy and the White House before going on to work at McKinsey & Co, becoming partner and co-founding McKinsey's now gargantuan Organization Effectiveness practice. He is the most famous consultant McKinsey has ever produced. In 1981, Tom founded Skunkworks Inc. and The Tom Peters Company. Praise for Tom Peter's previous book The Little Big Things: "The single best management book I've ever read."-Warren Bennis "He says that effective management is management that delivers more value to customers and more opportunity for service, creativity, and growth for workers. He is saying that the decent thing to do is also the smart thing. it's a wonderful message."-Paul Weaver, the Wall Street Journal We live in a Tom Peters world."-Fortune