In search of excellence
lessons from America's best-run companies
Peters, Thomas J.
creator
Waterman, Robert H.
text
New York
HapperBusiness Essentials
2004
monographic
xxiv, 360 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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.
Young Adult
Thomas J. Peters, Robert H. Waterman, Jr.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Industrial management
United States
Management
United States
USA
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9780060548780
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DLC
18991