Tom Peters (1942) is best-known for In Search of Excellence. He has probably done more than anyone else to shift the debate on management from the confines of boardrooms, academia, and consultancies to a broader, worldwide audience.
Tom Peters
My Inconvenient Truth – part 1
The naivity of a beginner and the feedback of people around you are the best conditions for innovation to occur. As it turns out, innovation is more about allowing the innate creativity to come out than it is about being a genius. A few months ago I was a co-guest-speaker for a foundation of voluntary [...]
Tom Peters
They say plan it. I say do it.
Tom Peters
Nobody—repeat, nobody—gets it right the first time.
Useful Insights from Employee Burnout
Research suggests that the level of autonomy or job-control determines the level of stress and burnout to a larger extent than job-demand or complexity. For managers there is a lesson in there: Respect.
Tom Peters
Unintended consequences outnumber intended consequences
Tom Peters
Implementation is the “last 99%”
Cracking the Code of Indifference…
… and Coming to Better Grips with Resistance For a few weeks now I am fascinated by a discussion on indifference on Tom Peters’ blog. It brought to my attention that there is more than ‘good old resistance’ to organizational change. The longer I thought about it the more I realized that the number one [...]
The Handy Guide to the Gurus of Management
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