Tom Peters: The Return of Excellence

I’m Guy Kawasaki, and this is Remarkable People. Achieving remarkability is a difficult and painful process. We’re on a mission to make this challenge easier and faster.

Helping me in this episode is the remarkable Tom Peters.

Tom is the co-author of In Search of Excellence. This isn’t an over-statement: in the 1980s this book that changed the way the world does business.

Tom was on the first list of "100 most powerful people in Silicon Valley" from 1965 to 2000, and in 2017, he received the Thinkers50 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Tom was in the U.S. Navy from 1966–1970, and then employed at the White House as a senior drug-abuse advisor during the Nixon administration from 1973 to 1974.

Following his time at the White House, he worked at McKinsey & Co. from 1974–1981. In 1981, Tom founded The Tom Peters Company.

Tom is a civil engineering graduate from Cornell and a Ph.D. from Stanford Business School.

In addition to Tom’s book, In Search of Excellence, some of his other books are Thriving on Chaos, Liberation Management, and The Pursuit of WOW!

You should know that he has a new book, Tom Peters’ Compact Guide to Excellence. This book can serve as a guidebook for leaders of all ages.

In this episode, you’ll learn why it’s important to show you care, invest and make decisions like a girl, create the best communities, and MBZA (manage by zooming around).