TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peters, Thomas J.
AU  - Watermanm, Robert H.
TI  - In search of excellence: lessons from America's best-run companies 
SN  - 9781781253403
U1  - 658.00973 PET-T 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Profile Books
KW  - Management
KW  - Business
KW  - Commerce organization & administration
KW  - Industrial management
KW  - Leadership
KW  - Personnel Management
N1  - In Search of Excellence has long been a must-have for the boardroom, business school and bedside table, and continues to influence the thinking of leaders and managers across the globe today. Based on a study of forty-three of America's best-run companies from a range of sectors - consumer goods, technology, services - the book identifies eight common 'attributes of excellence' that made these organisations successful. Though many of the profiled companies have since lost their edge (or disappeared completely), these eight management principles, each highlighted in a chapter in the book, have shown themselves to be timeless. These simple business truths, so eloquently encapsulated by Peters and Waterman, are proof that the fundamentals of management - a focus on people, customer value, entrepreneurship and excellence - ring as true today as they ever did. In Search of Excellence is a seminal business book, worthy of a place on the bookshelves of anyone who wants to understand how effective management works in practice
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