Tom Peters

The national bestseller that offers prescriptions for an economic world turned upside down. A New York Times bestseller for eleven months.

Handbook for a Management Revolution

Thriving on Chaos

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.

Fifty Ways to Transform Yourself from an 'Employee' into a Brand That Shouts Distinction, Commitment, and Passion!

The Brand You 50 (Reinventing Work)

Nancye Green

Legendary Author Tom Peters gives of excellence in a compact guide.

Tom Peters' Compact Guide to Excellence

Linda Peters

Through a series of warm and uplifting stories, Tom and Linda Peters take you into the heart of their socially awkward marriage. Tom had long suspected that there was something wrong with him, but despite his best efforts, he could never figure out what it was. With the help of Linda, a writer and investigator who he would later marry, Tom went looking for answers that would explain his quirky way of seeing the world. At the age of 47, he was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism. Raw and personal, this book of essays was first inspired by Tom's challenges with Asperger's Syndrome, but the humorous bite-sized stories apply to any kind of interpersonal communication. The simple solutions that Tom and Linda have discovered - while dressing up a phrenology head or removing a wild opossum from the master bath - have the surprising power to help us learn how to feel more respected, heard and understood in all of our relationships. Introduction Remember that weird kid in the back of the classroom who just couldn't stop talking about astronomy, and would bring up the discovery of Pluto during lessons about the American Civil War? That was me. My name is Tom Peters. I'm a composer and GRAMMY(R)-nominated classical musician now, and I've played music all over the world. I have a wife named Linda, a college-aged son from my first marriage, and eight different types of stringed instruments at home including six ukuleles. In 2011, at the tender age of 47, I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. At that time, Asperger's Syndrome was considered a mild form of autism, characterized by an inability to understand how to interact socially. Those of us with Asperger's - or Aspies, as a term of endearment - tend to have few facial expressions and are apt to stare blankly at other people. It's nothing personal; we really can't help it. Aspies are often accused of being "in their own world" and preoccupied with their own thoughts. We are usually clumsy with uncoordinated movements, are socially awkward, have repetitive routines or rituals, and odd speech and language. Which didn't exactly make me a chick magnet. Regardless of an Aspie's age or place in life, relationships are often a challenge. Being unable to understand nonverbal communication or how you relate to the people around you can cause Aspies to blurt out inappropriate remarks and say just plain odd things, usually at exactly the wrong time. But it's not all bad news. The unusual focus and intensity that goes along with this disorder has helped me to hone my skills as a professional double bass player and later, as a composer of silent film scores. On a personal level, I am honest, dependable and straightforward. I love deeply and always try to do my best. I don't play mind games. I don't know how. And now, as a middle-aged adult, I'm in a happy, healthy relationship. My wife, Linda, is a writer who used to work with adults with mental, emotional and developmental disabilities. It was Linda's idea for me to share some anecdotes about what it felt like to be on the high-functioning end of the autism spectrum. She thought it might help someone to hear me articulate the feelings involved in some of the unique challenges I face. Around the same time, we also started writing articles together about how we were making communication work so well in our Asperger's relationship. This book is a collection of some of those articles and blog posts about our lives. Most of the stories are about being on the spectrum, or about living with someone who is on the spectrum. Almost all the stories take place in the context of our Asperger's relationship and subsequent marriage. We hope that you enjoy reading them!

Our Socially Awkward Marriage: Stories from an Asperger's Relationship

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

Excellence Now: Innovation

"The Real Deal" Seth Godin, New York Times bestselling author of Linchpin "I'd rather hire someone who has studied [Peters'] writings than someone who has an MBA" Matthew Kelly, CEO of Floyd Consulting and New York Times bestselling author of The Dream Manager "Makes me glad to be alive in 2018" Sally Helgesen, author of The Female Advantage and The Female Vision, co-author How Women Rise The Excellence Dividend is a critical new book from one of today's leading visionaries in business. This year's winner of the Thinkers50 Lifetime Achievement Award and the CEO Reads Lifetime Contribution to the Business Book Industry Award, Tom Peters is one of the world's most revered management gurus and global business thinkers. For decades, he has been preaching the gospel of putting people first, and in today's rapidly changing business environment, this message is more important than ever. Studies show that fewer than one-third of employees feel engaged with their work and that half of all jobs are at risk due to technology. But Peters has a solution: a sustained commitment to excellence combined with a commitment to people. These are, he argues, the only tools for coping with and thriving amidst the tsunami of change facing business today. In The Excellence Dividend, Peters shows that nothing beats a high-quality product or service, designed and delivered by people who are as dedicated to each other as they are to their shared goal. With his unparalleled expertise and inimitable charisma, Peters offers brilliantly simple, actionable guidelines for success that any business leader can immediately implement. After spending four decades in in pursuit of professional excellence, giving more than 3,000 presentations on the subject and working with companies around the world, Peters has delivered a contemporary personal excellence manual for any professional looking to make their mark and face today's business challenges.

Principles for Prospering in Turbulent Times from a Lifetime in Pursuit of Excellence

The Excellence Dividend

How To Be A Great Professional Services Firm

The Professional Service Firm50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Your "Department" into a Professional Service Firm Whose Trademarks are Passion and Innovation! (Reinventing Work)

Bob Andelman

Vernon Hill

How to Create Growth Companies in a No Growth World

Fans Not Customers

The Brand You 50 : Or 

Excellence Now: Extreme Humanism This beautifully-designed book by award-winning design firm, Donovan/Green, captures Tom's timeless and new lessons in leadership for NOW. Called the "Greatest Business Book of All Time" (Bloomsbury UK), Tom and Robert Waterman's In Search of Excellence launched a maverick approach to management thinking in 1982. Tom's seventeen books since have been cornerstones of management lessons from business schools to boardrooms. With Excellence Now: Extreme Humanism, Tom sets an even higher bar given the state of our world today. Why "Extreme Humanism"? Tom will show how excellence in leadership is achieved by an obsessive focus on the growth of those you are leading. Reflecting on how to lead in current conditions, Tom says, "What you are doing right now will be the hallmark of your entire career." Fans who await Tom's next bold insights based on decades of research and on-the-ground, (e.g. Twitter - @tom_peters) steely observations, will once again find themselves immersed in a rich world of people-first wisdom. Excellence Now: Extreme Humanism will long serve as a business bible for both individuals and organizations-large and small. Excellence Now powerfully delivers the management and leadership direction for how to move forward in a world turned upside down.

Extreme Humanism

Excellence Now

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. The Project50 is 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. 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.

Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!

The Project50 (Reinventing Work)

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.

Re-Imagine!

This beautifully-designed book by award-winning design firm, Donovan/Green, captures Tom's timeless and new lessons in leadership for NOW. Called the "Greatest Business Book of All Time" (Bloomsbury UK), Tom and Robert Waterman's In Search of Excellence launched a maverick approach to management thinking in 1982. Tom's seventeen books since have been cornerstones of management lessons from business schools to boardrooms. With Excellence Now: Extreme Humanism, Tom sets an even higher bar given the state of our world today. Why "Extreme Humanism"? Tom will show how excellence in leadership is achieved by an obsessive focus on the growth of those you are leading. Reflecting on how to lead in current conditions, Tom says, "What you are doing right now will be the hallmark of your entire career." Fans who await Tom's next bold insights based on decades of research and on-the-ground, (e.g. Twitter - @tom_peters) steely observations, will once again find themselves immersed in a rich world of people-first wisdom. Excellence Now: Extreme Humanism will long serve as a business bible for both individuals and organizations-large and small. Excellence Now powerfully delivers the management and leadership direction for how to move forward in a world turned upside down.

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.

“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 offers brilliantly simple, actionable guidelines for success that any business leader can immediately implement. He provides a roadmap for your organization and for you as an individual 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.

Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last

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

September Winds

Jim Horan

Here is a practical workbook that will achieve tangible results. The One Page Business Plan for Women in Business captures the critical elements of a business plan on a single page using key words and short phrases. There is no room for fluff - every word counts. This book, with interactive CD, guides new entrepreneurs and seasoned business owners through a step-by-step process to create business plans that are incredibly focused and clear!

The One Page Business Plan for Women in Business

Da quando quasi quarant'anni fa ha rivoluzionato il mondo del business con il libro "Alla ricerca dell'eccellenza", Tom Peters non ha mai smesso per un istante di portare avanti le sue ricerche sul management e sull'eccellenza aziendale. Con "Il momento dell'eccellenza" prosegue la riflessione su alcuni dei temi a lui più cari e traccia una nuova strada per mettere in atto sul serio i cambiamenti più che mai necessari in quest'epoca di tumulti e incertezze sociali, sanitarie ed economiche. Un manifesto per una nuova concezione del lavoro e delle organizzazioni, con al centro le persone e la comunità, e per una leadership empatica e illuminata. Attraverso suggerimenti "in pillole", intuizioni spesso illuminanti, prestiti da alcuni dei più grandi pensatori e studi condotti in quarant'anni di ricerche, Tom Peters costruisce, in quello che ha dichiarato essere il suo ultimo libro, un testamento spirituale per le generazioni chiamate a costruire un mondo migliore.

Persone, comunità, umanesimo nel business

Il momento dell'eccellenza

Sylvia Löhken

Wir kommunizieren heute mehr als je zuvor, und nie war der Zugang zu Kommunikation leichter. Das Smartphone hat die Art und Weise, wie wir miteinander in Kontakt treten, binnen kürzester Zeit revolutioniert. Wir sind scheinbar permanent im Austausch mit anderen. Doch Reden allein macht noch lange keine Begegnung. Es ist die Qualität des Gesprächs, die darüber entscheidet, was zwischen Menschen passiert. Sie bestimmt, wie wir uns miteinander fühlen, wie wir zueinander stehen und was wir an Wissen teilen. Was also unterscheidet ein echtes Gespräch von Smalltalk, WhatsApp-Nachrichten, Tweets und Postings? Und wie kommen wir in einen echten Dialog, der tiefe zwischenmenschliche Begegnungen ermöglicht? Sylvia Löhken und Tom Peters geben in ihrem klugen Buch Antworten auf diese Fragen. Sie zeigen, wie sich mit den Hemmungen und Ängsten umgehen lässt, denen wir uns oft ausgesetzt fühlen, wenn wir uns auf echte Begegnungen einlassen. Das lohnt sich: Der Austausch mit anderen tut uns als sozialen Wesen gut, wenn wir ihn in unserem Sinne gestalten. Mehr noch: Das intelligente nahbare Gespräch ist ein Karrierefaktor. Je mehr Verantwortung Menschen in ihrem Berufsleben haben, desto mehr beruht ihr Erfolg auf gelungener Kommunikation: durch das Schaffen und Gestalten lebendiger Beziehungen. Sylvia Löhken und Tom Peters veranschaulichen mit vielen Beispielen, welche Chancen darin liegen, wenn wir tiefe Begegnungen mit anderen zulassen und das Risiko eingehen, uns anderen gegenüber zu öffnen: Wir erweitern nicht nur unser Sachwissen, sondern wir schaffen im offenen Dialog mit unserem Gegenüber vertrauensvolle Beziehungen und lernen dabei uns selbst und unser Gegenüber kennen. Die Autoren zeigen, wie wir die Voraussetzungen für echte Begegnungen schaffen und wie wir Gespräche so führen, dass sie für alle Beteiligten wertvoll sind.

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