Tom Peters
Thomas J. Peters (born November 7, 1942 in Baltimore , Maryland ) is an American management consultant .
Life
Peters owns Tom Peters Company, Boston , Massachusetts , and has been a consultant, writer, and speaker since the late 1970s. His first book, which he published with Robert H. Waterman, was In Search of Excellence , which was the first management book to exceed millions in circulation.
Peters studied civil engineering at Cornell University , received his BA in 1965 and his master's in 1966. At Stanford University he made an MBA in economics and completed his doctorate. In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate from Moscow State University of Management .
From 1966 to 1970 he was in the service of the United States Navy , later he worked in the Pentagon. From 1973 to 1974 he was a consultant in the White House. 1974–1981 he worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company . In 1981 he founded his own consulting company, in which he has worked ever since.
Since his first book success, Peters has been pleading for a renaissance of entrepreneurship and against linear, rational and causal thinking in management. Peters criticizes that management theory is still based on rationality and thus steers it in the wrong direction. His recurring book and lecture topics are innovation, motivation, enthusiasm, empowering and talent development.
He sees himself as a student and a. by Karl E. Weick , and Herbert A. Simon .
Peters is also considered to be the management thinker who has significantly influenced the language of management. Fortune magazine speaks of the fact that we in management now lived in a "Tom Peters world" (Mark Gimein in Fortune: Now that we live in a Tom Peters' World ). It is his merit to have introduced the Californian management style (trained by Herbert A. Simon, James G. March and Peter Drucker ) into management. For Peters, the future of the company no longer depends on true / false questions, but on a re-imagine in which new constructions (and injections ) are constantly being put in place of the old ones. (see Winfried W. Weber: Innovation through Injunction )
Peters is the author of numerous books and gives numerous lectures worldwide.
He lives in Vermont with his family.
Fonts
- 1982 - In Search of Excellence (with Robert H. Waterman )
- 1985 - A Passion to Perform (with Nancy Austin )
- 1987 - Creative Chaos
- 1992 - Beyond the Hierarchies - Liberation Management
- 1993 - The Tom Peters Seminar
- 1994 - The Pursuit of WOW !, ISBN 0-679-75555-1
- 1997 - The innovation circle
- 1999 - self management, project management and service management
- 2003 - Re-imagine!
- 2008 - Tom Peters Essentials. Talent. Trends. Design. Guide. Gabal, Offenbach 2008, ISBN 978-3897497986 .
- 2011 - The little big things: 163 ways to top performance. Gabal, Offenbach, ISBN 978-3869361710 .
literature
- Stewart Crainer: The Tom Peters Phenomenon - The Rise of a Management Guru, Frankfurt am Main, 1998
- Winfried W. Weber: Innovation through Injunction, Göttingen, Verlag Sordon, 2005
Web links
- Literature by and about Tom Peters in the catalog of the German National Library
- official website of the Tom Peters Company
- Portrait in BBC
- Tom Peters work in Germany
- Tom Peters in the ranking of management thinkers in Germany
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peters, Tom |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Peters, Thomas J. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American business consultant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baltimore |