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	Tom Peters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas J. Peters (born November 7, 1942) is a business management guru of the late 1970s to the present.
		Peters' ideology is focused on solving business problems with as little business process overhead as possible.
		Tom Peters has acknowledged the influence of Col. John Boyd on his work.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_Peters (522 words)

	Washington Speakers Bureau: Tom Peters
		Tom has identified what he labels “the two most glaring deficits in the markets/marketing portfolio.” They are the need to pay far more attention to women as purchasers of consumer and commercial goods and services; and leaping on the boomer-geezer express.
		Peters calls this his “motivation speech.” “My passion is for passion,” he declares, “for energy and enthusiasm and boldness and guts and the willingness to screw up and then get up.
		Tom Peters’ abiding theme-passion is energizing execs, in the public and private sectors, to attempt the bold leaps which he insists are survival requisites in 2004.
	www.washingtonspeakers.com /speakers/speaker.cfm?SpeakerID=474 (1262 words)

	Random House \| Authors \| Tom Peters
		Tom Peters continues to be in constant demand for lectures and seminars.
		Tom Peters, author of the bestselling IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE is once again ahead of the curve, and now demonstrates that the key to success in business future...
		The Tom Peters Seminar demonstrates Peters' unconventional analysis that challenges outdated corporate structures and demonstrates that in the 1990s, "imagination is the source of value in the economy." Peters' bold ideas vault business thinking beyond change--toward...
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=23758 (896 words)

	Tom Peters personal appearances, management consultants, tom peters
		Tom Peters is also founder of The Tom Peters Group, three training and communication companies located in Palo Alto, California.
		Tom Peters also writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column for Tribune Media Services, has authored more than 100 magazine and journal articles and has hosted numerous PBS television shows.
		Kate, Tom Peters' wife, a poet and former bookstore owner, and Tom divide their time between Northern California and Vermont where they have an active 1,300-acre farm with llamas, sheep, goats, horses, cows, chickens and donkeys.
	www.barberusa.com /business3/peters_tom.html (332 words)

	"Future Shoes" by Michael Finley
		Tom Peters is the most successful management whiz of the current era.
		Peters, a former McKinsey consultant, is one of the most interesting of the going gurus because he is bound to no single idea, such as reengineering, continuous improvement, or the learning organization.
		Peters himself may be so busy with so many projects that he is unable to keep his own promises to customers.
	mfinley.com /articles/tompeters.htm (954 words)

	Reason magazine -- October 1997
		Peters: Oh no. The obviously long-term answer is that Silicon Valley is the new Pittsburgh and Detroit, and it's the law of economics that once you've arrived, you attempt to achieve monopoly status.
		Peters: I think you would have to be a total idiot not to realize that Alan Greenspan and the head of the Bundesbank are not as powerful as their predecessors were 50 years ago.
		Peters: There's this terrible or wonderful paradox/dichotomy: What it means to be human is not going to dramatically change in the next 50 years probably, but the way we conduct a lot of enterprise will, so the world will be radically different, radically different.
	reason.com /9710/int.peters.html (5105 words)

	LEADERS LIVE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tom and Bob Waterman co-authored In Search of Excellence in 1982; the book was named by NPR (in 1999) as one of the "Top Three Business Books of the Century," and ranked as the âgreatest business book of all timeâ in a poll by Britainâs Bloomsbury Publishing (2002).
		Tomâs newest passions are for Women-as-Leaders; the Supreme Role of Design in product and service differentiation; the Creation of Customer Experiences that rival a Cirque du Soleil performance; capturing the enormous, underserved market represented by Women and Boomers-Geezers; Re-imagining Education for a Creative Age; and reorienting healthcare from âfix-it-after-the-factâ to Wellness-Prevention.
		Tom is a civil engineering graduate of Cornell (BCE, MCE) and business graduate of Stanford (MBA, PhD); he holds honorary doctorates from several institutions, including the State University of Management in Moscow (2004).
	www.iirusa.com /leadingmindsny/index.cfm/Link=65 (588 words)

	Still Angry After All These Years
		It is in some ways a departure for Peters and in other ways a continuation of the same quirks, writing tics, and moments of brilliance that have defined his previous work.
		Peters becomes wistful when asked what he would do if he didn't have to live life as a human exclamation point but could instead opt to be a simple comma -- if he could jettison Tom Peters and start all over.
		In the world of Tom Peters, design is so critical that it should be on the agenda (along with a professional designer) of every meeting in every single department.
	www.fastcompany.com /magazine/75/angry.html (2634 words)

	tompeters! management consulting leadership training development project management
		Tom's in Monterey, CA, at Quail Lodge, which he tells us is gorgeous.
		And if 7 of the 16 guys had been solo or in an all-male group that would have been "interesting"—but not so compelling as the hypothesis that most of the guys (12 of 16) were probably only there because they'd been dragged by a girlfriend or flat-mate.
		Tom has agreed to let the folks at blog.marketingprofs.com use some of his posts.
	www.tompeters.com (3403 words)

	Tom Peters's True Confessions
		So the assignment went to this silly little guy called Tom Peters and his silly little buddy called Bob Waterman, both of whom were considered kind of marginalia in the world of McKinsey.
		Peter Drucker may be an Austrian, but he's more German than the Germans when it comes to hierarchy and command-and-control, top-down business operation.
		The conventional wisdom was what Peter Drucker had sold to General Motors, what Robert McNamara had installed at the Pentagon, and what David Kearns was stuck with at Xerox.
	www.fastcompany.com /online/53/peters.html (3467 words)

	Tom Peters training videos and dvds.
		Tom Peters describes eight shared traits that characterize organizations able to prosper in today's competitive, global marketplace by adapting to and loving change.
		Before a live audience, Tom Peters presents an instructional, how-to program on customer service in which he discusses 20 specific proposals that need to be addressed by any organization striving for super...
		Tom Peters proves that the management revolution is not confined to the private sector—that a revolution is brewing in the public sector, too.
	www.trainingabc.com /xcart/catalog/category_292_Tom_Peters_page_1.html (669 words)

	IRMI - Tom Peters "Hates" Quality but "Loves" Its Principles and Practices
		Peters appears to be critical of the quality disciplines advocated by Dr. Deming and Dr. Joseph Juran, yet he seems to actually support and reinforce these same principles of quality.
		Here is an expanded summary of Tom Peters' major points as they relate to and actually support, even reinforce, the principles of quality advocated by Dr. Deming and others in the "Quality" movement.
		Peters does seem to want to "push" everyone to higher levels of performanceâ€”which is commendableâ€”from "incrementalism" to innovation.
	www.irmi.com /Expert/Articles/2005/Pryor01.aspx (2562 words)

	Tom Peters
		Tom is a civil engineering graduate of Cornell (B.C.E., M.C.E.) and business graduate of Stanford (M.B.A., Ph.D.) He holds honorary doctorates from several institutions, including the State University of Management in Moscow.
		Two Tom Peters biographies have been published: Corporate Man to Corporate Skunk: The Tom Peters Phenomenon and Tom Peters: The Bestselling Prophet of the Management Revolution (part of a four-book series of business biographies on Peters, Bill Gates, Peter Drucker, and Warren Buffet).
		Tom writes, reflects and then presents about 75 major seminars-“happenings” each year, half outside the U.S. His other passion is creating and participating in Web-based and “live” radical learning communities—in an effort to induce leaders to vigorously embrace the “Technicolor Times” and partake of a diet of audacious, disruptive re-imaginings and excellent adventures.
	www.globalleadersevents.com /event-speakers/Tom-Peters.cfm (649 words)

	Georgia Tech Alumni Association - 2001 A Business Odyssey with Tom Peters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Peters has kept ahead of the pack by writing 10 management books and presenting business seminars.
		Peters says his prognostications are dire if you are a 48-year-old white-collar staffer or middle manager "entombed in a corporate tower." But they can be liberating — the changes will eliminate the drudge from white-collar jobs, he insists.
		Peters foresees new software creating "white-collar robots" to perform the same roles in the white-collar business world that forklifts, robots and containerization did in the blue-collar world.
	gtalumni.org /news/magazine/win01/article3.html (933 words)

	Tom Peters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tom Peters is best known as the co-author of the bestseller In Search of Excellence (1982), A Passion for Excellence (1985), and author of Thriving on Chaos (1987), and Liberation Management (1992).
		Tom is a graduate of Cornell University where he earned two civil engineering degrees, and Stanford University where he earned an MBA and a Ph.D. in business.
		Peters, Tom, Thriving on Chaos, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1987, 9-20, 40-45, 305-308, 465-477.
	www.stfrancis.edu /ba/ghkickul/stuwebs/bbios/biograph/peters.htm (856 words)

	Random House \| Books \| The Circle of Innovation by Tom Peters
		More recently, through 400 seminars in 47 states and 22 countries, Peters reexamined, refined and reinvented his views on innovation--the #1 survival strategy, he asserts, for businesses of the next millennium.
		Tom Peters is the co-author of In Search of Excellence (with Robert H. Waterman, Jr.), and A Passion for Excellence (with Nancy Austin), and the author of Thriving on Chaos, Liberation Management, The Tom Peters Seminar, and The Pursuit of Wow!.
		He is the founder of the Tom Peters Group in Palo Alto, California, and lives mostly on American Airlines, or with his family on a farm in Vermont or an island off the Massachusetts coast.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679757658 (461 words)

	Amazon.com: The Pursuit of Wow!: Books: Tom Peters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Though Peters has gained more than his share of critics, his high-priced seminars remain wildly popular, and those who attend become enthusiastic supporters, vowing that their lives have been changed.
		Tom Peters is a management prophet with a lot of fascinating ideas.
		Peters has no apparent respect for the point of view that tradition represents collected wisdom about things that have worked and may well keep working.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679755551?v=glance (1445 words)

	Amazon.com: Re-imagine!: Books: Tom Peters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After decades with Knopf, influential management guru Peters switches to DK in an effort to "reinvent the business book," and while the results don't quite live up to the hyperbole, the new publisher allows for a looser design strategy that complements the author's increasingly stream-of-consciousness writing.
		Tom Peters takes great pride in criticizing everything under the premise of making the reader "re-imagine".
		Tom Peters hopes that his new buzzword, "re-imagine", will catch on and become part of business lingo.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/078949647X?v=glance (2136 words)

	eLearning \| Tom Peters \| Business Management Training
		Tom Peters is founder of tompeterscompany!, author, consultant and speaker, producer and star of his own training films, and host of BBC and PBS specials.
		Peters presents at about 100 major national and international seminars each year.
		Peters has joined Corpedia's web-based faculty to transform his popular books, essays, speeches and lectures into corporate management training eLearning courseware.
	www.corpedia.com /welcome/tompeters.asp (254 words)

	The Tom Peters On-Line Book Store
		Tom Peters BASHES the nail on the head TIME after TIME with this indispensable book.
		Peters uses his delightfully dry wit to pillage and plunder the archaic, die-hard gospel of business gone by.
		The cynical cartoon character would have a hard time in Peter's upbeat, high-energy world of "Cool-Beyond-Belief." The Brand You50 is Peter's manifesto for today's knowledge workers.
	www.peoplesuccess.com /peters.htm (302 words)

	THOMAS ANDREW PETERS
		Peters, Thomas A. “Overlap and Competition Among Consortia for E-Resource Agreements.” The Charleston Advisor 2 (3) (January 2001).
		Peters, Thomas A. “Collaboration and Consortia: The Potential and the Pitfalls.” A keynote address given at the Annual Conference of OPAL, the consortium of Ohio Private Academic Libraries, Columbus, Ohio, August 5, 2005.
		Tom and Vicki Peters currently serve as foster parents in the State of Missouri, caring for children from birth to age three.
	www.tapinformation.com /resume.htm (3611 words)

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	Tom Peters Company \| wow!store \| Sixty
		The blog on this home page and other editorial content throughout the site is written by Tom and the Tom Peters Company.
		Vintage Tom Peters … stimulating, exciting, wise, challenging, and out of the box.
		Tom and his collaborators, designer Ken Silvia and editorial director Erik Hansen, have created a volume that captures, condenses, and gives color to the faith and wisdom that Tom has gleaned across six decades of life.
	wowstore.tompeters.com /store/sixty (379 words)

	BW Online \| December 3, 2001 \| The Real Confessions of Tom Peters
		Peters now maintains that he and Waterman simply asked their McKinsey colleagues and other "smart people" for the names of companies doing "cool work." Then, they screened that initial list of 62 organizations for financial performance over a 20-year period.
		Peters, one of ten early investors in Fast Company who has since cashed out, was shown an advance copy of the article and didn't object to the addition.
		Peters says he was "pissed" when he first saw the cover.
	www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/01_49/b3760040.htm (932 words)

	Library Journal - Team Leader--Tom Peters
		Tom Peters packs 36 hours of work into the confines of a 24-hour day.
		Peters thinks librarians still need to figure out "how to translate the social and cultural value of a place-based institution into a digital era where place doesn't matter." He's eager to see libraries adopt technologies that add unique value for their users.
		These days, Peters runs his own business, TAP Information Services, which offers "planning, consulting, research, and assessment services, supporting libraries, consortia, government agencies, associations, publishers, and other information organizations." He says, "Being my own boss is great.
	libraryjournal.com /article/CA510780.html?display=LJMS&pubdate=3/15/... (472 words)

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		A Passion for Excellence by Nancy Austin, Tom Peters...
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		The Tom Peters Seminar by Thomas J. Peters; Tom Peters
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	Tom Peters urges healthcare industry to shift focus to patient health and well being \| Arab Health
		Tom Peters urges healthcare industry to shift focus to patient health and well being
		Tom Peters addressing a highly qualified audience of regional healthcare professionals at Arab Health 2006.
		Peters pointed out the significant difference between healthcare and the health paradigm that includes wellness and prevention.
	www.ameinfo.com /76174.html (732 words)

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