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Tom Peters is the most influential business thinker of our age and has been hailed as the "Guru of Gurus of Management".
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His first book, In Search of Excellence, co-authored with Robert Waterman and published in 1982, was named the "greatest business book of all time" in a poll conducted by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2002. He followed that with A Passion for Excellence, co-authored by Nancy Austin, and a further string of international best-sellers including Thriving on Chaos, Liberation Management, The Tom Peters Seminar, The Pursuit of WOW! and The Circle of Innovation. His latest books include The Brand You50, The Project50 and The Professional Service Firm50. His new book Re-imagine! is out in November and is published by Dorling Kindersley.
Tom has worked as a senior White House drug abuse advisor and been a partner at McKinsey & Co. He is a Fellow of the International Academy of Management, the World Productivity Association, the International Customer Service Association and the Society for Quality and Participation. Tom is also founder of tompeterscompany!, a global training and consulting organisation that advises major clients including Asda, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Rolls-Royce and Virgin Direct on organisational transformations in readiness for future changes.
What the press say about Tom:
"Peters is the Michel Foucault of the management world: a scourge of the rationalist tradition and a celebrant of the creative necessity of chaos and craziness." Financial Times 09.23.2003
"...a combination of Billy Graham and Sid Vicious." Financial Times on Tom’s seminars
"[Peters] is to business what [Dr.] Robert Atkins is to the obese." Evening Standard 10.01.2003
"Give Peters credit for being willing to stick his neck out." Publisher’s Weekly
"Feminism’s Newest Convert." Chicago Tribune
"Tom Peters is the most provocative and engaging (as well as annoying and threatening) management guru running loose in America today." CBS MarketWatch
"Peters is passionate, egotistical, evangelical, outrageous and often maddeningly simplistic—but always provocative and fun. And the truth is, most of the time he’s right" Washington Post
"No matter how his message is transmitted, what’s wonderful about Peters is his restless mind and love of learning." USA TODAY 11.17.03
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