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Main Title In search of excellence : lessons from America's best-run companies /
Author Peters, Thomas J.,
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Waterman, Robert H.
Publisher Harper & Row
Year Published 1982
OCLC Number 08493620
ISBN 0060150424; 9780060150426; 0446385077; 9780446385077; 0063120534; 9780063120532; 0006384021; 9780006384021
Subjects Industrial management--United States ; Leadership ; Organization ; Organization and Administration ; Gestion d'entreprises ; Etats-Unis d'Amérique ; Industrièele bedrijven ; Gestion d'entreprise--âEtats-Unis ; Succès dans les affaires--âEtats-Unis ; Organizational sociology ; Industries--United States ; Industry--United States
Additional Subjects Industrial management--United States
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French equivalent / âEquivalent franðcais 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.