Liberation Management: Necessary Disorganization for the Nanosecond Nineties

A. A. Knopf, 1992 - Business & Economics - 834 pages

In the new economy, hierarchical business structures are being consigned to the shredder and replaced with flexible, fast-responding, ad hoc groups of brainworkers. Tom Peters, author of the bestselling IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE is once again ahead of the curve, and now demonstrates that the key to success in business future is total engagement, dynamism, speed, and independence.
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LIBERATION MANAGEMENT: Necessary Disorganization for the Nanosecond Nineties

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Apparently bent on doing for management science what Timothy Leary did for psychology, Peters here extends the cheerfully anarchic precepts advanced in Thriving on Chaos (1987)—which in turn ...

Liberation management: necessary disorganization for the nanosecond nineties

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Unlike his best sellers In Search of Excellence (with Robert Waterman , LJ 2/15/83) and A Passion for Excellence (with Nancy Austin , LJ 6/15/85), this latest book by management guru Peters doesn't ...

Contents

• Toward Fashion Fickle Ephemeral: 3
• EDS the Worlds Largest Project Organization in: 20
• Information as Fashion: 31

About the author

Tom Peters, public speaker and author, graduated from Cornell University and received a M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has also received honorary doctorates from the University of San Francisco and Rhodes College. He was in the U. S. Navy during Vietnam and later served as a senior White House drug abuse advisor (1973-74). He worked for McKinsey & Company from 1974 to 1981. He holds about 75 seminars a year and has created and starred in a series of corporate training films. He is the co-author of In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies, which was a New York Times bestseller for three years. This book and subsequent titles have become bestsellers in Europe, Latin America and Asia. Peters contributes to several newspapers and journals, including writing a bimonthly column for Forbes ASAP.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Liberation Management: Necessary Disorganization for the Nanosecond Nineties; A Borzoi book
• Contributor: Thomas J. Peters
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: A. A. Knopf, 1992
• ISBN: 0394559991, 9780394559995
• Length: 834 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / General