Peters, Thomas J. <br/><br/>
In search of excellence :  lessons from America's best-run companies / 
Thomas J. Peters, Robert H. Waterman, Jr. 
 - New York :  HapperBusiness Essentials,  2004. 
 - xxiv, 360 p. :  ill. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> Originally published: New York : Harper & Row. 1982.  "A HarperBusiness book."  Contents:    Successful American companies --   The rational model --   Man waiting for motivation --   Managing ambiguity and paradox --   A bias for action --   Close to the customer--   Autonomy and entrepreneurship --   Productivity through people --   Hands-on, value-driven --   Stick to the knitting --   Simple form, lean staff --   Simultaneous loose-tight properties. 
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<br/><br/> Discusses eight basic practices characteristic of successfully managed companies.  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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780060548780 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003067759 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Industrial management--United States.<br/>Management--United States.<br/>USA.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>658/.00973