Book Bearings
In Search of Excellence
- 360 pages · about 6 hours
- First published 1982
- 19 editions
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1 About this book
In Search of Excellence is a book written by Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr. First published in 1982, it sold three million copies in its first four years, and was the most widely held monograph in United States OCLC libraries from 1989 to 2006. The book explores the art and science of management used by several companies in the 1980s.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Motivation (Psychology)
- Industrial management
- Management
- United States
- Industry
- Industries
- Leadership
- Success
2 About Thomas J. Peters
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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