Tom Peters and Management

A History of Organizational Storytelling

David Collins (Northumbria University, UK)

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English

Routledge
27 December 2021

Economics; Business strategy; Management: leadership & motivation; Operational research; Organisational theory & behaviour

Series: Routledge Key Thinkers in Business and Management

Tom Peters is the management guru's management guru. His is the story that launched a thousand management stories. This new book offers a critical assessment of Tom Peters' contribution to management thought and practice.

The author, a globally recognized expert on management gurus, places Tom Peters at the forefront of the narrative turn in management. Charting and accounting for Tom Peters’ contributions to management, the book analyses the practices that Peters has used to shape our appreciation of the business of excellence and in so doing probes and accounts for the preferences of the excellence project.

An accessible and illuminating work, the book will appeal to students and scholars as well as thoughtful managers and leaders.

By: David Collins (Northumbria University UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032037776
ISBN 10: 1032037776
Series: Routledge Key Thinkers in Business and Management
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 27 December 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Collins is Professor in Management at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK, and Visiting Professor in Management at the University of the Faroe Islands, Denmark.

Reviews for Tom Peters and Management: A History of Organizational Storytelling

No one understands Tom Peters and his work better than David Collins. In the forty years since In Search of Excellence, organisation theories have come and gone, but the Excellence movement captured the neoliberal zeitgeist and changed the organisational landscape. Collins charts the rise of Peters, who traded on his ability to engage with the hopes and fears of his audience. This book shows that while Tom Peters' case for Excellence may be flawed, its impact should not be ignored. If we are to understand, challenge and change the behaviour of today's organisations and those who manage them, we have to understand Peters and his work. Collins does that better than anyone else. This is a great book - buy it, read it, recommend it to friends, colleagues, and students. Bernard Burnes, Chair of Organisational Change, Stirling Management School, University of Stirling, UK.