Tom Peters
Also known as Thomas J. Peters
American management writer; co-author of In Search of Excellence (1982).
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- Tom Peters is an American writer on business management.
- He is best known for In Search of Excellence (1982), written with Robert H.
- Waterman Jr.
- He was a consultant at McKinsey & Company from 1974 to 1981, becoming a partner in 1979, and then went independent.
- Later books include Thriving on Chaos (1987), The Excellence Dividend (2018) and Excellence Now: Extreme Humanism (2021).
Key facts
- Born
- 7 November 1942, Baltimore, Maryland1
- Education
- Bachelor's (1964) and master's (1966) in civil engineering, Cornell; MBA and PhD in organizational behavior (1977), Stanford1
- Early career
- US Navy from 1966 to 1970, with two deployments to Vietnam as a Seabee; senior drug-abuse adviser in the White House from 1973 to 19741
- McKinsey
- Consultant from 1974 to 1981; partner and Organization Effectiveness practice leader from 19791
- Data dispute
- Fast Company quoted him in December 2001 as saying the book's data were faked; he later said this was untrue and blamed an "aggressive headline"1
- Recognition
- Thinkers50 Lifetime Achievement Award (2017)1
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