This inspiring little book is packed with exhilarating quotes that will urge you to recognize what truly matters at work. As is often the case, Warren Buffett captures the moral of the story astutely: “When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. Another five fell off the list after the period we evaluated, including Kodak’s famous bankruptcy in 2013.

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Create a strategic vision for the future with revolutionary new ideas from Tom Peters and Martha Barletta. The cool professional service firm is just that: cool talent, a portfolio of cool projects, cool clients. How you respond to emerging trends and exploit their potential is key to the success of your organization.So looking at what happened to them makes for a great natural experiment where the company’s quality is a given – the variable is the context in which it operated. Focusing on how the business climate has changed, this inspirational book outlines how the new world of business works, explores radical ways of overcoming outdated, traditional company values, and embraces an aggressive strategy that empowers talent and brand-driven organizations where everyone has a voice. In Thriving on Chaos, Tom declares that everything known "for sure" about management 15 years earlier is being challenged, and he forecasts (correctly) that the next 15 years would show even more change.

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Upon publication of the larger book, many readers reported that a more portable format would be welcome.Given the difficulty of beating the market, it’s no surprise that the biggest group is in the middle band of +/-2%. Or compare Intel, a champion during the PC era, with Amdahl, National Semiconductor, DEC, Data General and Wang Labs, which were leaders of yesteryear’s centralised-computing world. We tracked the long-term fortunes of the 50 companies lauded in the seminal business books of the past three decades. And for the cool individual in the cool professional service firm there is only one answer: the cool project. The Professional Service Firm50: Fifty Ways to Transform Your "Department" into a Professional Service Firm Whose Trademarks are Passion and Innovation!

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Here’s a complete list of his published work as well as where you can find them in whatever form you choose.Four low performers were also swallowed up ( Amdahl, Data General, DEC and Raychem), and three filed for bankruptcy ( Kmart, Wang and Circuit City). It's loaded with "how-to's," and it challenges its readers to reach beyond reengineering, total quality management, and empowerment, towards reinvention and revolution.

Now, its main message is that EXCELLENCE is the result of many small tasks, all of which can be practiced and mastered. In other words, if it were not for cigarettes, Jim Collins’s outperformance would literally go up in smoke. In particular, watch out for the common tendency to underplay the role of context and luck, and over-attribute success to things that are easily visible, controllable or flattering. And, above all, respect the trend, do everything you can to get ahead of it, and don’t kid yourself that you can fight it. Given the state of our world today Tom sets an even higher bar and will show how excellence in leadership is achieved by an obsessive focus on the growth of those you are leading.Along with the best of his columns, Peters includes questions and rebuttals that come from readers and listeners, as well as his own candid responses. In those 35 years, he never stopped studying what's new and making his best predictions for what's to come next.