Tom Peters biografie en quotes

Tom Peters (Thomas Peters; 1942) is een wereldbekende management consultant, auteur en managementgoeroe op het gebied van business management. Tom Peters is vooral bekend om zijn carrière bij het adviesbureau McKinsey & Company en zijn boek In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies (1982), samen met Robert Waterman jr.

Ook heeft Tom Peters bijgedragen aan de ontwikkeling van het 7S model en de vertaling van de chaos theorie naar het hedendaags bedrijfsmanagement.

De biografie van Tom Peters

Tom Peters wetenschappelijke carrière begon in 1965 met het behalen van een BSc. graad op het gebied van civiele techniek, aan de Universiteit van Cornell. In 1966 behaalde Tom Peters ook zijn MSc. graad hierin. Aan de Stanford Business School behaalde Tom Peters zijn MBA graad en promoveerde (Ph.D.) kort daarna.

Tom Peters heeft een brede achtergrond als het gaat om werkervaring. Hij heeft vier jaar zijn bijdrage geleverd binnen de Marine, ten tijde van de Vietnam oorlog. Ook heeft hij kort daarna als senior adviseur gewerkt voor het Witte Huis. Vanaf 1974 ging Tom Peters werken als management consultant voor het bekende bedrijf McKinsey & Company.

Ondanks dat hij zich daar had opgewerkt tot partner en vele internationale organisaties had voorzien van goede adviezen en implementaties, verliet Tom Peters het bedrijf McKinsey, mede dankzij het grote succes van het boek In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies (1982).

Vanaf 1981 is Tom Peters zelfstandig ondernemer en adviseert en spreekt over de gehele wereld over zijn theorieën en praktijkvoorbeelden.

Bekende quotes

1. “Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.”
2. “Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.”
3. “Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.”
4. “If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.”
5. “Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.”
6. “Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.”
7. “Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills.”
8. “The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.”
9. “The best leaders… almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.”
10. “Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.”
11. “Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”
12. “If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.”
13. “Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion. Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.”
14. “Many of the innovative companies got their best product ideas from customers. That comes from listening, intently and regularly.”
15. “Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.”

Bekende publicaties en boeken van Tom Peters et al.

• 2012. Really First Things First. (Kindle Edition) New Word City, Inc.
• 2010. The circle of innovation: You can’t shrink your way to greatness. Random House LLC.
• 2010. The Pursuit of Wow!: Every person’s guide to topsy-turvy times. Random House LLC.
• 2010. The Little BIG Things: 163 Ways to Pursue EXCELLENCE. Harper Business.
• 2008. The wow project. IEEE Engineering Management Review, 36(2), 70-76.
• 2006, 1982. In search of excellence: lessons from America’s best run companies. Harper Business.
• 2005. The Essentials Series (Leadership, Talent, Design, Trends).
• 2003. Re-imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age. DK Publishing.
• 2002. Performance reassessment of a real‐time seizure‐detection algorithm on long ECoG series. Epilepsia, 43(12), 1522-1535.
• 1999. The Project 50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every “Task” into a Project That Matters!. Knopf.
• 1999. The Brand You 50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Yourself from an Employee’ into a Brand That Shouts Distinction, Commitment, and Passion!. Random House LLC.
• 1997. The brand called you. Fast Company, 10(10).
• 1994. The future of workplace learning and performance. Training and Development, 48(5), 36-47.
• 1994. The Tom Peters Seminar: Crazy Times Call for Crazy Organizations.
• 1992. Liberation management: necessary disorganization for the nanosecond nineties.
• 1992. Liberation management. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (pp. 15-17).
• 1991, 1988. Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution. Harper Perennial.
• 1990. The best new managers will listen, motivate, support: Isn’t that just like a woman. Working Woman, 15(9), 142-143.
• 1989. The service edge: 101 companies that profit from customer care. New York: New American Library.
• 1988. Thriving on chaos: Handbook for a management revolution. The Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 36(2), 27-28.
• 1988. Restoring American competitiveness: Looking for new models of organizations. The Academy of Management Executive, 2(2), 103-109.
• 1988. Facing Up to the Need for a Management Revolution. California Management Review, 30(2).
• 1988. Leadership Excellence in the 1990s: Learning to Love Change, Journal of Management Development , vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 5-9
• 1984. A Passion for Excellence: The Leadership Difference.
• 1982. The rational model has led us astray, Journal: Strategy & Leadership , vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 16-23.
• 1980. Structure is not organization, Journal: Business Horizons , vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 14-26.
• 1980. Management systems: The language of organizational character and competence, Journal: Organizational Dynamics – ORGAN DYN , vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 3-26.
• 1979. Beyond the matrix organization, Journal: Business Horizons , vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 15-27.
• 1978. Symbols, patterns, and settings: An optimistic case for getting things done, Journal: Organizational Dynamics – ORGAN DYN , vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 3-23.

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