Talk:In Search of Excellence
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[edit] another book parodying the title
A recent slashdot review of In Search of Stupidity made an interesting remark:
"In Search of Stupidity gets its title from the classic, albeit infamous business book In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies, by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman. In Search of Excellence quickly became a best-seller when it came out in 1988 and launched a new era of management consultants and business books. But in 2001, Peters admitted that he falsified the underlying data. Librarians have been slow to move the book to the fiction section."
If someone familiar with the book can address this, it might be an interesting addition to the article. - CHAIRBOY (☎) 20:33, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
- It was already in the article before a revert by Wookiepedian. I posted a comment about the current version of this story here. MaxEnt 20:52, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] fast company's story out of context?
"Tom Peters did not admit to "faking the data" in any substantive way. He poked a sharp pin into self-importance of business consulting (and by implication their purportedly yet rarely-in-practice objective data-driven metholodogy) that the editor of Fast Company then spun for cheap thrills and effect." http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=207914&cid=16957330
This references says Peters admittedly faked the data.
- "The Real Confessions of Tom Peters - Did In Search of Excellence fake data? A magazine suggests it did", by John A. Byrne, in Businessweek, December 3, 2001
But the article takes back what the headline promises. Actually, Peters said that he did not fake the data and was "pissed" at the magazine (for using the misleading headline).
Wikipedia should not propagate the error. --Uncle Ed 03:59, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
- I had to read this stupid book in college. Going by my gut, I didn't trust the damn thing one bit. It seemed like nothing more than a pamphlet-sized book to be purchased and lightly skimmed by executives, a quick way to make a buck while doing no real research, no real work. They did not really get to know the companies profiled, did not do a rigorous analysis of the numbers, they just took the word of other people who said it was a great company and ran with it. If this book were written just before Enron and Worldcom hit the rocks, both of those companies would have been among the top contenders. Just look at the articles written in that time period, nobody saw through the smoke and mirrors, they were just repeating and building upon the myths spun by the rock star CEO's. The criticism section should be expanded. --Gmuir (talk) 16:47, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
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