Tom Peters' Compact Guide to Excellence

by Tom Peters, Nancye Green

Tom Peters’ Compact Guide to Excellence (IdeaPress Publishing) is full of inspiration for anyone aged 20 to 80, from cashiers to CEOs. Legendary best-selling business author Tom Peters partnered with the iconic designer Nancye Green of Donovan/Green to create this guidebook for leaders in the workplace. Peters and Green have packed this strikingly designed little book with exhilarating quotes that will urge you to recognize what truly matters at work. Over the decades, Peters has gathered these gems of wisdom from those who have been down in the trenches creating extraordinary places to work. Green has wrought the most accessible and captivating way to absorb that wisdom.


Tom Peters’ Compact Guide to Excellence argues that business leaders must start putting people really first and start helping them prepare for a rocky future. As we come to terms with the debilitating pandemic, confront extreme wealth inequality, and wrestle with destabilizing technological revolutions still in their infancy, it is clear that “Extreme Humanism”—treating one another humanely—is the best path forward.



The insights you’ll find in Tom Peters’ Compact Guide to Excellence will move you to action, to vigorously and passionately support our communities, provide products and services that stun our clientele with their excellence and verve, and serve our ailing planet. It’s not just the best path forward, it’s the path that can engender purpose and pride in all of us who perform the work. Take this guidebook to work, on your travels, wherever you need to be reminded of excellence. Better yet, share this book—an exquisite gift—with anyone who needs a jolt of genius.

Genres: Business

336 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2022

Reviews

[Mark Fallon · Rating 5 out of 5]

A quick read that is filled with “blinding flashes of the obvious.” So good, that I bought 20 copies to give to clients.

Tom noted that this is his last book. My greatest hope is that he changes his mind,

[Andy Matheson · Rating 5 out of 5]

You can always rely on Tom for some terrific insights and this book is no exception. It reads like a curation of his slide deck from one of his presentations.
Like others I keep it close as a reminder and a prompt in the business world
Business books can often be guilty of expanding a simple idea across too many pages. For example you read a summary idea in the HBR and don’t really expand your insights and thoughts when you read the full book. This is the opposite. If there were a measure for ideas and page length this is a clear winner. Pick a page..reflect on it and then act.
A great formula and certainly one to recommend to business people everywhere

[David Guerra]

Do not let the physical size of this book fool you. Every page packs a punch (straight to the gut). The Realities shared are what most want to overlook or sadly, (to their demise) think they are immune to what Tom Peters shares. Do yourself a huge favor and get a copy of this book. I carry this book everywhere I go. It will be read and re-read count on it. The messages found in this book are that important!

[Teri Temme · Rating 5 out of 5]

Outstanding!

[Paula · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love quotation collections and this is one of the very best. The quotation on page 151 is tattoo-worthy. If you don't follow Tom Peters on the platform formerly known as Twitter, you should.