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Main Title In search of excellence : lessons from America's best-run companies /
Author Peters, Thomas J.,
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Waterman, Robert H.
Publisher Harper & Row,
Year Published 1982
OCLC Number 08493620
ISBN 0060150424; 9780060150426; 0446385077; 9780446385077; 0063120534; 9780063120532; 0006384021; 9780006384021; 0063380021; 9780063380028
Subjects Industrial management--United States ; Leadership ; Organization ; Organization and Administration ; Gestion d'entreprises ; Etats-Unis d'Am�erique ; Industri�ele bedrijven ; management technique ; success ; top management ; experiment ; innovation ; human relations ; communication ; production diversification ; USA ; Gestion d'entreprise--�Etats-Unis ; Succ�es dans les affaires--�Etats-Unis ; Organizational sociology ; Industries--United States ; technique de gestion ; r�eussite ; gestion industrielle ; cadres sup�erieurs ; relations humaines ; diversification de la production ; commandement ; t�ecnica administrativa ; �exito ; gesti�on industrial ; alta direcci�on ; relaciones humanas ; comunicaci�on ; diversificaci�on de la producci�on ; liderazgo ; Estados Unidos ; Etats-Unis d'Amerique ; Industrieele bedrijven ; Gestion d'entreprise--Etats-Unis ; Succes dans les affaires--Etats-Unis ; Industry--United States
Additional Subjects Industrial management--United States
Internet Access
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French equivalent / �Equivalent fran�cais https://bac-lac.on.worldcat.org/oclc/300890398
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ELCM  HD70.U5P424 1982b NVFEL Library/Ann Arbor, MI 12/01/1989
Edition 1st ed.
Collation xxvi, 360 pages ; 22 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Notes
pt. I. The saving remnant. Successful American companies -- pt. II. Toward new theory. The rational model -- Man waiting for motivation -- pt. III. Back to basics. Managing ambiguity and paradox -- A bias for action -- Close to the customer -- Autonomy and entrepreneurship -- Productivity through people -- Hands-on, value-driven -- Stick to the knitting -- Simple form, lean staff -- Simultaneous loose-tight properties. Discusses eight basic practices characteristic of successfully managed companies.