In Search of Excellence has long been a must-have for the boardroom business school and
bedside table and continues to influence the thinking of leaders and managers across the globe
today. Based on a study of forty-three of America's best-run companies from a range of sectors
- consumer goods technology services - the book identifies eight common 'attributes of
excellence' that made these organisations successful. Though many of the profiled companies
have since lost their edge (or disappeared completely) these eight management principles each
highlighted in a chapter in the book have shown themselves to be timeless.These simple
business truths so eloquently encapsulated by Peters and Waterman are proof that the
fundamentals of management - a focus on people customers and value entrepreneurship and
excellence - ring as true today as they ever did. In Search of Excellence is a seminal business
book worthy of a place on the bookshelves of anyone who wants to understand how effective
management works in practice.
