Tom Peters
Leadership Expert and Author
Without much doubt, Peter Drucker and Tom Peters have shaped the idea of modern management more than any others over the last six decades. Drucker is said to have "invented" management as a discipline worthy of study—in particular, he gave management of large firms the essential tools to deal with their post-World War II enormity, complexity, and growing global reach. Tom Peters, in turn, led the way in preparing management for the current era of staggering change, starting in the mid-1970s.The likes of Fortune, the Economist, the New Yorker and the Los Angeles Times have said Tom is the "uber-guru" of management and inventor of the enormous "management guru industry," that "in no small part, what American corporations have become is what Peters has encouraged them to be," that Tom is "the father of the post-modern corporation," and that "we live in a Tom Peters world."
In particular, in 1982, with the publication of In Search of Excellence, Tom and Bob Waterman helped American firms deal with a crushing competitive challenge to their primacy by getting them away from strategies based on just the numbers, and re-focused on the basic drivers of all successful businesses throughout time: people, customers, values-"culture" ("the way we do things around here"), action-execution, a perpetual self-renewing entrepreneurial spirit.
As "obvious" as these ideas are, they were, are, and always will be the bedrock and differentiator of excellent enterprise—and subject to constant and remarkably rapid slippage if left untended for even a moment. As a result, Tom in 2008 still unabashedly hammers and hammers and hammers again on these always fresh ideas. If anything, he is more adamant than ever, in a "flat world," that the "eternal basics" must be kept front and center—must be any leader's abiding obsession.
Articles
The Practice of Excellence. Limits Thereto. Or not?
by Tom Peters
Happy Birthday U.S.A. And 3 Throaty Cheers!
by Tom Peters
Five or Less Words to the Wise
by Tom Peters
What Can Happen If You Open a Half-hour Early!
by Tom Peters
Dealing With Recessionary Times
by Tom Peters
Excellence? Always? Yes!
by Tom Peters
Leveraging Knowledge
by Tom Peters
Heart of Strategy
by Tom Peters
To Hurry Up, Slow Down
by Tom Peters
The Pursuit of Luck
by Tom Peters
It's Up To You
by Tom Peters
Presentation Secrets
by Tom Peters
The Curse (and Necessity) of "Professionalism"
by Tom Peters
The New Order: Work Mimics Life
by Tom Peters
Where You Stand Depends on Where You Sit
by Tom Peters
In Praise of the Secular Corporation
by Tom Peters
The Pursuit of Beauty
by Tom Peters
Is "Business" Trustworthy?
by Tom Peters
White Papers and E-Books
Tom Peters: "Top 50" "Have-Yous" (71 KB) (19-Mar-2009)The Top 50 Have You [done these things in the last week, day, hour?] list is Tom's reaction to the phrase "Mapping Your Competitive Position." He contends that you should, instead, put some effort to the tasks on his list. In his estimation, they're important to the short- and long-term health of any enterprise, big or small. If so, the mapping will become a secondary issue.
Tom Peters: 50 Ways to Enhance Cross-Functional Effectiveness and Deliver Speed, “Service Excellenc (82 KB) (19-Mar-2009)Tom introduced this collection as his effort to get you to pay "'strategic' attention to what has always been Issue #1 in organizational effectiveness ... from Napoleon to the man in the moon." Namely, cross-functional effectiveness, which will help you "'Deliver Speed,' 'Service Excellence,' and 'Value-added Customer Solutions.'"
Tom Peters: Excellence for “The Rest Of Us”: A “Book” for “Real People,” Working in “The Real World (553 KB) (19-Mar-2009)Real People" is the shorthand title for what Tom calls "Excellence for the Rest of Us: A Book for Real People, Working in the Real World." In this manifesto, Tom contrasts the thinking of gurus (like him!) to the thinking of the rest of us ... those who toil in more conventional settings. In Search of Excellence introduces this idea when Tom and Bob Waterman write, "Hard is Soft. Soft is Hard." By that phrase, they are referring to the people things, the soft stuff that's more difficult than the
Tom Peters: Innovate or Die: The Innovation121 A Menu of Innovation Tactics (120 KB) (19-Mar-2009)Recession or no recession, deep recession or not, the challenge to add more and more value grows, and the importance of innovation, and a culture of innovation, grows exponentially. A "culture of innovation" covers "everything." There is no half way. There of course are "first principles." Or are there? I started a list of "stuff" that's imperative to creating an innovative enterprise. The list of 10 or so grew to 25, than 45, and at the moment includes no less than 121 "tactics." Of course you
Tom Peters: The Heart of Business Strategy - 48 Things That Matter (58 KB) (19-Mar-2009)We usually think of business strategy as some sort of aspirational market positioning statement. Doubtless that's part of it. But I believe that the number one "strategic strength" is excellence in execution and systemic relationships (i.e., with everyone we come in contact with). Hence I offer 48 pieces of advice for creating a winning strategy that is inherently sustainable.
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