The "Greatest Business Book of All Time" (Bloomsbury UK), "In Search of Excellence" has long been a must-have for the boardroom, business school, and bedside table.

Based on a study of forty-three of America's best-run companies from a diverse array of business sectors, "In Search of Excellence" describes eight basic principles of management -- action-stimulating, people-oriented, profit-maximizing practices -- that made these organizations successful.

Joining the HarperBusiness Essentials series, this phenomenal bestseller features a new Authors' Note, and reintroduces these vital principles in an accessible and practical way for today's management reader.

No one has had more influence in shaping the idea of modern management than Tom Peters. An avowed enemy of conformism and the status quo, Peters is a necessary voice of experience to guide us through times of financial uncertainty. In "The Little BIG Things", he provides essential wisdom for everyone - from the freelancer to the small business owner to the head of a major corporation-offering 163 ways to excel at the people side of business by pursuing excellence at every level. The "Excellence Standard" is not about Grand Outcomes. In Zen-like terms, all we have is today. If the day's work cannot be assessed as Excellent, then the oceanic overall goal of Excellence has not been advanced. "Period". If membership in your club (organization) is not aimed at 'mind-blowing' development for each staff member and 'window rattling' service for each customer and other extended family members, then ...just what the hell is the point?

The New York Times bestseller for over 9 months....The inspirational sequel to In Search of Excellence!

A Passion for Excellence

Cutting through traditional "data-based" dogmas about management, A Passion for Excellence champions the innovative, people-oriented spirit that made In Search of Excellence the bestselling business book of all time. Now, through hundreds of concrete, real-world examples, Tom Peters and Nancy Austin zero in on the key areas of competence that add up to excellence, offering scores of anecdotes and practical insights to help all business people on their road to leadership, success, and most of all...excellence.

A Featured Alternate of Book-of-the-Month Club® A Dual Main Selection of the Macmillan Executive Book Club A Main Selection of the Fortune Book Club A Selection of the AMA Book Club

"A succession of imaginative management practices and techniques." -Wall Street Journal

"Instructive and inspirational...full of useful reminders to managers." -New York Times

"A guidebook to a bold, new way to manage people and companies." -Tampa Tribune-Times

"Contains the wisdom of a sage's advice...a very, very incisive piece of work...anyone wishing success can profit from its advice." -Detroit News