A passion for excellence: the leadership difference

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Random House, 1985 - Business & Economics - 437 pages
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Demonstrates through numerous practical examples how superior customer service, innovation, and the competence of all members of the organization lead to distinctive achievement

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Contents

A Blinding Flash of the Obvious
3
Integrity and the Technology of the Obvious
34
The Ultimate Barrier to Competitor
41
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Thomas J. Peters,Nancy Austin
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About the author (1985)

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 seventy-five 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.

Nancy is coauthor, with Tom Peters, of the bestseller A PASSION FOR EXCELLENCE. She is a leading authority on building swift and lasting organizations to succeed. Nancy has written extensively for many magazines and journals and today is a contributing editor for INC. magazine.

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TitleA passion for excellence: the leadership difference
AuthorsThomas J. Peters, Nancy Austin
PublisherRandom House, 1985
ISBN0394544846, 9780394544847
Length437 pages
Subjects › 

Business & Economics / Entrepreneurship
Business & Economics / General
Business & Economics / Industrial Management
Business & Economics / Leadership
Ejercicios
Empresas
Industrial management
Industrial management - United States
Industrial management United States
Industrial management/ United States
  
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