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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.

For more than three decades, Tom Peters has been obsessed with Excellence (with a capital E). In this beautifully designed eBook, he’s sharing his thoughts, ideas, inspirations, formulas, stories, tips, lessons, experience, examples, and, perhaps most important, attitude. The bottom line: Don’t ask what Excellence is. Ask when. Tom’s answer: Excellence Now.

Bestselling author and legendary management thinker Tom Peters believes that any serious examination of business management and excellence must, especially in these perilous times, begin with an assessment of the moral basis for enterprise. His take in this provocative, highly designed new book? Organizations exist to SERVE. Leaders exist to SERVE.

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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.

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.

From a leading business management guru—50 insights on how to get the most out of your department. Transform white collar departments into "professional service firms" whose sole, powerful asset is knowledge. 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.

Tom Peters--brilliant, original, and perhaps the most inspiring and listened-to business thinker of our time--has a lot on his mind these days. And he wants to share it in The Circle of Innovation. The world of business is in a permanent state of flux, he argues, a state of chaos in which constant innovation is the only survival strategy--for the individual and for the organization. And he presents here a lifesaving handbook--both provocative and practical--designed to turn any organization into a perpetual innovation machine. In 400 seminars in 47 states and 22 countries in the last five years, Peters has reexamined, refined, and reinvented his views on innovation. Now he brings those seminars--and his passion--to the reader in a landmark book. It is meant, he writes, to both "terrify" and "enlighten." These are "times of matchless peril for those who fail to grasp the nettle...and times of matchless opportunity for those who do." To keep us alert, limber, and ready for action, he provokes and cajoles in chapter after chapter. Among his institutions and revelations: We Are All Michelangelos. He shows how to transform every "jobholder" into a full-fledged businessperson. All Value Comes from the Professional Services. How to convert sluggish staff units into Vital Centers of Intellectual Capital Accumulation. The System is the Solution. How to build great systems--which go far beyond nuts and bolts. Create Waves of Lust. Quality is not the automatic advantage it recently was. There is a pressing need to reverse the rising tide of product and service "commoditization." Tommy Hilfiger Knows. In a crowded marketplace, branding is far more important than ever before. It''s a Woman''s World. How to capitalize on the fact that women purchase/are purchasing agents for well over half of U.S. commercial and consumer goods. Little Things Are the Only Things. As the Blight of Sameness encroaches on market after market, design is often the best tool in services or manufacturing for sustainable differentiation. We''re Here to Live Life Out Loud. Why transformational leaders of the future must have laser-like focus, tell the truth, and live on the lunatic fringe. The hallmarks of Tom Peters legend are an insatiable curiosity, an agile intellect, a pragmatic perspective, and an uncanny ability to gauge the global zeitgeist. These qualities are all brought to bear as Peters sets out to engage, enrage, and ultimately empower his readers, amid forces that are reshaping not only business but every aspect of human experience.

Brilliantly simple, actionable guidelines for success that any business leader can immediately implement. “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 provides a roadmap for you and your organization 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.

In 1982, Tom Peters and Bob Waterman put "A Bias for Action" at the top of their list of eight traits of successful companies in their groundbreaking book In Search of Excellence. Given the subsequent acceleration of change, "A Bias for Action" would doubtless top a similar list in 2012. Here''s Peters'' excellent (and beautifully designed) take for today.

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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." Again: 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 one: 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.

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." Again: 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 one: 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.

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. 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. 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 book is recommended for children ages 6 - 12. The book is intended to help children develop a bond with pets, and take responsibility for their chores ate home. Children have to learn to respect their parents and parental expectations. It is the intention of this book to assist parents in using logical consequences while integrating the changing needs of the child into the family system.

Living on land that had once been the territory of the Kalapuya Indians, Tom researched the tribe, discovering that there was little in the way of historical writings about the people. The book is a fictional tale about a small mountain community surrounded by huge tracts of corporate timberland. Sam McKenzie, the last full-blooded Kalapuya, and Laura Morgan, an attractive widow, become drawn together amid a group of colorful characters and unexpected events. The small hamlet of Falon, although insulated from most of the nation''s big-city dilemmas, becomes entwined in a sinister plot to disrupt the American way of life. Through the chapters, the reader is taken on an amazingly entertaining adventure into the lives of small-town people going through big time experiences. September Winds is the type of story that many readers will want to experience more than once.

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Tom Peters é o Gandalf dos negócios. O potencial humano é infinitamente mágico, mas a maior parte das empresas quer [...] contribuir de modo inconsciente, mecânico. Equipes mudam o mundo, líderes servem suas equipes, e não existe excesso de serviço! Se você quer saber qual é o segredo da jornada, Humanismo extremo é leitura obrigatória [...] Fdlinda Holliday, ceo e fundadora da citia Existe a gestão de empresas antes e depois de Tom Peters. PhD em gestão pela Stanford Business School, Peters foi sócio da McKinsey & Company, trabalhou na Casa Branca e presta consultoria empresarial ao Deutsch Bank, Credit Suisse e ao Exército dos Estados Unidos, dentre outros. Coautor de In Search of Excellence, obra considerada o melhor livro de negócios já publicado até hoje, Tom é a maior autoridade do mundo quando se fala em excelência nos negócios, inovação e liderança. Depois de 43 anos de trabalho e muita mão na massa – e em um mundo cada vez mais complexo – Humanismo extremo: o novo padrão de excelência nos negócios é o compêndio definitivo que poderá ser a diferença entre o sucesso e o fracasso do seu negócio. Com princípios e ferramentas indispensáveis para quem deseja sair da média e se adaptar às mudanças causadas pelas novas tecnologia, Humanismo extremo ajudará você a navegar rumo ao crescimento e à lucratividade, fundamentais para a sobrevivência de qualquer empresa, mas o pulo do gato está em saber o que é ainda mais importante na hora de tomar decisões e agir, e Tom Peters, mais do que ninguém, poderá ajudá-lo nessa tarefa.

Bienvenidos a un mundo en donde la imaginación es el mejor recurso de la economía. Vivimos en tiempos locos, y en un mundo loco, las organizaciones tradicionales no tienen ningún sentido. La noción de cambio ya no es actual, y Tom Peters nos exige sustituir esa palabra por revolución, tanto para describir la transformación de nuestro tiempo como para afrontarla. Peters, coautor de En busca de la Excelencia examina, comenta y aconseja más allá de los grandes conceptos que actualmente nos guían: la calidad total, la descentralización, la reducción de plantilla, etc. Cada capítulo constituye un modelo de organización, y el conjunto, un modelo global de gestión. Mediante observaciones, consejos, a veces atrevidos, preguntas y respuestas, Peters revela nuevas y radicales perspectivas sobre un futuro que ya es hoy.

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