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Thriving on Chaos
Thriving on Chaos
Author: Tom Peters
The co-author of In Search of Excellence and A Passion for Excellence now gives readers a program of 50 specific courses of action essential to corporate survival in today's (and tomorrow's) turbulent economic/political world. Line drawings.
ISBN-13: 9780394457840
ISBN-10: 0394457846
Publication Date: 9/12/1987
Pages: 561
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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Still relevant today...good stuff.
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Addressing American industry's continuing decline in foreign and domestic markets, Peters (In Pursuit of Excellence) here offers a detailed plan for unstructured business activity in which some readers will see not only chaos but anarchy. Nevertheless, the author's perception of high quality as a determining consumer motivation and his radical recipe for achieving it are persuasive. Noting that smaller service-oriented businesses like Federal Express prosper while mammoth GE and GM falter, Peters would largely eliminate top-heavy management superstructures in favor of creative worker involvement and customer participation, with supervisors on hand to encourage. This textbook cites dozens of specific business situations and person-to-person responses in support of its step-by-step instructions for turning a failing enterprise aroundif those involved can act fast.
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The premise of this book is simple. "The only constant is that everything changes." Tom Peters explains how to take advantage of that simple concept through innovation, training, delegation and more.