In Search Of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies (Profile Business Classics) - Softcover

Jr, Robert H Waterman; Peters, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781253404 ISBN 13: 9781781253403

Publisher: Profile Books, 2015

Synopsis

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, customers and 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.

About this title

Review:

Required reading (International Management Magazine)

A landmark book, without question the most important and useful book on what makes organisations effective, ever written (Warren Buffet)

One of those rare books on management that is both consistently thought-provoking and fun to read (Wall Street Journal)

Book Description:

A reissue of this classic business bestseller, ranked in a poll by Bloomsbury Publishing as 'the greatest business book of all time'.

About this edition

• Publisher: Profile Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1781253404
• ISBN 13: 9781781253403
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400