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In the new economy, hierarchical business structures are being consigned to the shredder and replaced with flexible, fast-responding, ad hoc groups of brainworkers. Tom Peters, author of the bestselling IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE is once again ahead of the curve, and now demonstrates that the key to success in business future is total engagement, dynamism, speed, and independence. "Rewarding. Provides a wealth of thought-provoking information and incisive insights." PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER "A gold mine of information." USA TODAY

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Library Journal Review

Unlike his best sellers In Search of Excellence (with Robert Waterman , LJ 2/15/83) and A Passion for Excellence (with Nancy Austin , LJ 6/15/85), this latest book by management guru Peters doesn't have the benefit of an official coauthor, and it shows. While chock-full of important case studies (from Ingersoll Rand, CNN, the Body Shop, and others), the book is so dense, with Peters equivocating a bit too much on word choice, that few will read it cover to cover. Still, Peters's main argument--that companies have to be flexible enough to readjust to the quick changes of a ``fashion''-driven marketplace--seems on the mark and should bring him a large readership. For all management/business collections. BOMC main selection; previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/15/92.-- Judy Quinn, formerly with ``Library Journal'' (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publishers Weekly Review

At a large Florida medical center, a cross-trained duo--a nurse and a lab technician--can perform for a patient 80% of all necessary services. At Cable News Network, a 30-minute, nine-bureau online meeting determines each coming day's program. These and 50 other flexible, innovative companies--Ingersoll-Rand, Electronic Data Systems, Chiat/Day/Mojo, Random House--provide the case studies for Peters's ( In Search of Excellence ) punchy, freewheeling primer. ``Fashionable'' products tailored to customers' ever narrower-gauge needs will define the marketplace of the 1990s, asserts Peters. Companies that respond to this environment, he predicts, may fissure into small, autonomous units; such ``brain-based'' firms will recognize the value of letting project teams and empowered employees have access to all of the firm's information. Part pep talk, part grab-bag of business strategies, this energizing, idea-rich handbook will shake up traditional managers and rank-and-file workers alike. 250,000 first printing; BOMC main selection. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

This is the book Peters has been practicing for. Here he updates, rethinks, and substantially adds to the ideas he popularized in In Search of Excellence (1982), A Passion for Excellence (1985), and Thriving on Chaos (1987). The core of his earlier messages is still the same. He realizes now, though, that none of the changes that are required for companies to improve will take place unless companies radically reorganize or actually, as Peters sees it, dis-organize. His message can be summed up by explaining his title. We need to be "liberated" from the constricting, initiative-strifling hierarchical organizational structures of the doomed corporate behemoths of the past. We need to eliminate middle management and establish networks of project teams that work directly with the customer or consumer. And, finally, we need to be ready to adapt continuously and instantaneously to changing needs and demands. Even though this book is a massive 900-plus pages, Peters illustrates his thesis with catchy, sound-bite messages and a flashy barrage of examples served up with MTV flair. Liberation Management may well become for the first part of the next century what Peter Drucker's Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973) was for most of the last quarter of this one. (Reviewed Oct. 1, 1992)0394559991David Rouse

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Tom Peters, public speaker and author, graduated from Cornell University and received a M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has also received honorary doctorates from the University of San Francisco and Rhodes College.

He was in the U. S. Navy during Vietnam and later served as a senior White House drug abuse advisor (1973-74). He worked for McKinsey & Company from 1974 to 1981. He holds about 75 seminars a year and has created and starred in a series of corporate training films.

He is the co-author of In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies, which was a New York Times bestseller for three years. This book and subsequent titles have become bestsellers in Europe, Latin America and Asia. Peters contributes to several newspapers and journals, including writing a bimonthly column for Forbes ASAP.

(Bowker Author Biography)