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FORTUNE called Tom Peters the ur-guru of management. The Economist tagged him the Uber-guru; and BusinessWeek’s take on his “unconventional views” led them to label him “business' best friend and worst nightmare."

Tom & Bob Waterman co-authored In Search of Excellence in 1982, one of the best selling and most admired business books of all time. Tom followed Search with a string of international bestsellers and in 2003 released Re-imagine: Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age, a revolutionary book which became an immediate No.1 international best seller. It aims to do no less than re-invent the business book through vibrant, energetic presentation of critical ideas. His most recent publication highlights his major ideas in a four book series called Tom Peters’ Essentials: Trends, Leadership, Design, and Talent.

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). In an in-depth analytic study released by Accenture’s Institute for Strategic Change in 2002, Peters scored second among the top 50 “Business Intellectuals,” behind Michael Porter and ahead of Peter Drucker.

Leadership guru Warren Bennis once told a reporter, “If Peter Drucker invented modern management, Tom Peters vivified it.” In fact, as even Tom’s book titles indicate, his passion is passion!

Tom’s other passion, apart from writing and presenting major seminars, 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.

Born in Baltimore in 1942 and residing in “crazy Northern California” from 1974-2000, Tom now lives on a 1,600-acre Vermont working farm with his wife, the artist and entrepreneur Susan Sargent. 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. In the U.S. Navy from 1966-1970, he made two deployments to Vietnam (as a Navy Seabee) and survived a tour in the Pentagon. He was a senior White House drug-abuse advisor in 1973-74, and then worked at McKinsey & Co. from 1974 to 1981, becoming a partner and Organization Effectiveness practice leader in 1979. Tom is a Fellow of the International Academy of Management, The World Productivity Association, the International Customer Service Association, and the Society for Quality and Participation.



	Document Actions Tom Peters FORTUNE called Tom Peters the ur-guru of management. The Economist tagged him the Uber-guru; and BusinessWeek’s take on his “unconventional views” led them to label him “business' best friend and worst nightmare." Tom & Bob Waterman co-authored In Search of Excellence in 1982, one of the best selling and most admired business books of all time. Tom followed Search with a string of international bestsellers and in 2003 released Re-imagine: Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age, a revolutionary book which became an immediate No.1 international best seller. It aims to do no less than re-invent the business book through vibrant, energetic presentation of critical ideas. His most recent publication highlights his major ideas in a four book series called Tom Peters’ Essentials: Trends, Leadership, Design, and Talent. 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). In an in-depth analytic study released by Accenture’s Institute for Strategic Change in 2002, Peters scored second among the top 50 “Business Intellectuals,” behind Michael Porter and ahead of Peter Drucker. Leadership guru Warren Bennis once told a reporter, “If Peter Drucker invented modern management, Tom Peters vivified it.” In fact, as even Tom’s book titles indicate, his passion is passion! Tom’s other passion, apart from writing and presenting major seminars, 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. Born in Baltimore in 1942 and residing in “crazy Northern California” from 1974-2000, Tom now lives on a 1,600-acre Vermont working farm with his wife, the artist and entrepreneur Susan Sargent. 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. In the U.S. Navy from 1966-1970, he made two deployments to Vietnam (as a Navy Seabee) and survived a tour in the Pentagon. He was a senior White House drug-abuse advisor in 1973-74, and then worked at McKinsey & Co. from 1974 to 1981, becoming a partner and Organization Effectiveness practice leader in 1979. Tom is a Fellow of the International Academy of Management, The World Productivity Association, the International Customer Service Association, and the Society for Quality and Participation.

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