Description: "Most of us spend the best parts of our waking hours in a business with 1 to 100,001 fellow employees. Business, therefore, is not 'part of the community.' Business is the community. Hence, the 'first order of business' for an enterprise is its ongoing moral responsibility to all of those who make its success possible: employees, in terms of their personal growth, and social equity as regards gender and race. This also includes the communities in which its employees live as well as the larger communities where the enterprise does business: city, state, country, planet... Regarding traditional business goals, such an unwavering commitment to excellence and to people and community are the only repeatedly proven long-term drivers of exceptional growth and profitability. Looking down the road, developing the full potential of its people and providing products and services that inspire offer the best chance we have to continue to provide enlightened and humane contributions that the looming artificial intelligence tsunami cannot take away from us."--Back cover
Review Quotes:
"For the sake of the company, community, customer, and planet, Tom Peters wants every leader, everywhere, to - finally - put people first. He prods, provokes, cajoles, and charms his way through catchy examples and practical action steps that offer a path to sustainable excellence." -Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor, Author of Think Outside the Building
"Although Tom Peters writes with a sense of urgency, savor his insights about what it takes to nurture our companies-in his words, "full-fledge breathing communities," and ensure business plays the role it must in building the world we all deserve." -Linda A. Hill, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Faculty Chair, Leadership Initiative, author of Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation
"Tom's brilliant OPUS should not only be read and reread but tucked under your pillow at night, so these ideas seep in and guide our every behavior throughout our lives." -Jeanne Bliss, Bestselling Author and Customer Experience Expert
"If you don't have people as your true north before you read Excellence Now: Extreme Humanism-you will at the end. Tom gives us a master class in the 'soft stuff' - what really matters today." -Tiffani Bova, Growth Evangelist, Salesforce, WSJ Bestselling Author, Growth IQ, Thinkers50
Tom Peters is the Gandalf of business. Human potential is infinite magic, but most organizations blindly pursue mindless mechanical contributions. Teams change the world, leaders serve teams--and there's no such thing as over-serving! If you want the secret of the quest, Excellence Now a must-read and --a must often reread." -Linda Holliday, CEO and Founder of Citia