The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-turvy Times

Peters, Tom

ISBN 10: 0679436561 ISBN 13: 9780679436560

Publisher: Random House Audio, 1994

Synopsis

1 cassette / 90 minutes
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Tom Peters - author, provocateur, business visionary - helped us navigate Present Shock in The Tom Peters Seminar.  But hold on to your crash helmet - the wild ride accelerates in The Pursuit of Wow!

Peters wants to give you the words, the tools to survive in the tumultuous nineties.  A dozen years ago his groundbreaking book In Search of Excellence changed the way business does business.  Bow it's time to take the next leap - into the NAFTA, GATT, all-the-world's-a-cyberstage era.  Getting to a place called excellence is no longer the idea.  You've got to take that leap, then leap again - catapult their imaginations, blow their mindsets, knock their Nikes off.  In a world, wow!  them.  It's the wow!ers who will win in this brazen new world.

About this title

About the Author:

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 Circle of Innovation. 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. Thanks to the information technology revolution he can be reached at tompeters@businessedge.net

From Booklist:

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. But Peters sometimes contradicts himself, and the dozen years after his groundbreaking In Search of Excellence find almost two-thirds of his excellence standard-bearers failed or in trouble. This is Peters' second of the publisher's original paperback editions--with "simultaneous Random House AudioBook" ($12)!--following last summer's The Tom Peters Seminar: Crazy Times Call for Crazy Organizations. Depending on one's view of Peters, it might be summed up as either "the best of Peters" or "the rest of Peters." It consists of 210 observations, snippets, aphorisms, conceits, and quotes, "loosely collected by topic in 13 more-or-less chapters," that have been gathered by Peters over the last several years and haven't found room in his seminars or other books. Given that barrage of ideas, the reader is guaranteed more than an occasional "WOW!" David Rouse

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Audio
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0679436561
• ISBN 13: 9780679436560
• Binding: Audio Cassette