The "Greatest Business Book of All Time" (Bloomsbury UK), In Search of Excellence has long been a must-have for the boardroom, business school, and bedside table.
Based on a study of forty-three of America's best-run companies from a diverse array of business sectors, In Search of Excellence describes eight basic principles of management -- action-stimulating, people-oriented, profit-maximizing practices -- that made these organizations successful.
Joining the HarperBusiness Essentials series, this phenomenal bestseller features a new Authors' Note, and reintroduces these vital principles in an accessible and practical way for today's management reader.

In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies

Business & Money

Peters, Thomas J.

Waterman, Jr., Robert H

Biography & History

Harper Business

True or false? "America is falling behind in world competition." The surprise answer is "false." Recent research on industrialized nations shows that American workers outproduce workers in Germany and France by 20 percent, workers in Britain by over 30 percent, and Japanese workers by over 60 percent. The reason has nothing to do with technology, worker attitude, or worker skill. In this incisive, anecdotal book Robert H. Waterman, Jr., looks at some of the best American firms and concludes that the key to strategic advantage is organization: they are organized to focus on the things that motivate their own people, and organized to anticipate customer needs. Waterman's crisp case studies give us an insider's view of why these firms are so good. For example, we'll see how Procter &amp; Gamble gets a productivity advantage of 30-40 percent through a work force that's essentially self-managing. (Procter &amp; Gamble developed this system over thirty years ago and considered it so strategic that they wouldn't talk about it until now.) We'll see how a set of strongly held, shared values - not strategy - built the AES Corporation from a start-up eleven years ago to a company whose market value today is close to $1.7 billion. Waterman also gives us an in-depth look at how companies such as Merck and Rubbermaid maintain a strategic edge through raw innovation. In 1993 Rubbermaid invented 365 new products, one for every day of the year. How did they manage it? Waterman's argument is firmly grounded in specific details and in firsthand observation. But his message about American competitiveness transcends any particular case history or industry. All of us can learn from the example of these firms that inone way or another strike out into new frontiers of excellence.

What America Does Right

Waterman

Management & Leadership

W.W.Norton&Company

"It is, make no mistake, the best management answer for our chaotic times." ―Tom PetersAdhocracy: Any form of organization that cuts across normal bureaucratic lines to capture opportunities, solve problems, and get results. In an era of accelerating change, organizations, and national economies, most likely to succeed are those with the ability to adjust and adapt. Robert H. Waterman Jr., coauthor of the best-selling In Search of Excellence, shows how and what this sort of innovation must become a way of life for business organizations across the board. What is needed is an environment that fosters the use of an ad-hoc problem-solving technique, in effect an "adhocracy" that functions outside the often initiative-stifling bureaucracy. Drawing on twenty-five years' experience in management consulting, Waterman offers clear instructions on how to establish adhocracy and make it work: creating task forces and independent business units, even two people meeting in a hallway to solve a common problem. A lively and insightful work, this should become an essential handbook for managers at all levels who recognize the need to redefine the rules for success.

Adhocracy

Turning conventional management theory on its head, this anecdotal work shows how only those companies that put people first and organize to meet their needs will stay productive, breed quality, execute strategy, and do well by their shareholders.

What America Does Right: Learning from Companies that Put People First

Business Culture

Amply illustrated with anecdotes and examples from the experiences of the best-run companies to make them accessible and practical for you to use. #1 National bestseller. DLC: Industrial management.

In Search of Excellence: Lessons from Americas Best Run Companies

Grand Central Publishing

Renewal Factor

Bantam]

El «mejor libro de negocios de todos los tiempos», basado en un estudio de las empresas mejores administradas de Estados Unidos de una gran variedad de sectores empresariales, este libro describe ocho principios básicos de la gerencia.
El «mejor libro de negocios de todos los tiempos» (Bloomsbury REINO UNIDO), este libro ha sido desde hace mucho tiempo obligatorio en la sala de juntas, la escuela de negocios y la mesa de noche. Basado en un estudio de cuarenta y tres de las empresas mejores administradas de Estados Unidos de una gran variedad de sectores empresariales, este libro describe ocho principios básicos de la gerencia, estimula a la acción, orientado a la gente, prácticas que maximizan los beneficios, que hicieron de estas companías organizaciones exitosas. Este fenomenal best seller dispone de una nueva Nota del autor, y retoma estos principios vitales de manera accesible y práctica para el lector gerencial actual.
The "Greatest Business Book of All Time", based on a study of America's best-run companies from a diverse array of business sectors, describes eight basic principles of management
This has long been a must-have for the boardroom, business school, and bedside table.
Based on a study of forty-three of America's best-run companies from a diverse array of business sectors, In Search of Excellence describes eight basic principles of management, action-stimulating, people-oriented, profit-maximizing practices, that made these organizations successful.
This phenomenal bestseller features a new Authors' Note, and reintroduces these vital principles in an accessible and practical way for today's management reader.
as long been a must-have for the boardroom, business school, and bedside table.
Based on a study of forty-three of America's best-run companies from a diverse array of business sectors, In Search of Excellence describes eight basic principles of management, action-stimulating, people-oriented, profit-maximizing practices, that made these organizations successful.
This phenomenal bestseller features a new Authors' Note, and reintroduces these vital principles in an accessible and practical way for today's management reader.

En busca de la excelencia (Spanish Edition)

HarperCollins Espanol

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