Comments on: Tom Peters

By: Ashesh R

Ashesh R — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:22:28 +0000

Hi Joseph!
A great post. Nice to see it on the Mauritian Blog Tracker, given that I’ve recently blogged on the father of Modern Management, Peter Drucker.

Well, we have been recommended to read the best-seller In search of Excellence by Tom Peters. The latter had been conferencing in Mtius in 2006 (if not mistaken) upon invitation by MALEM.

Does he address the issue of Spiritual Leadership? What do you think about it?

Will try to think (managerially) on the 2 photos that you described in the end. Again, congrats, a nice and encouraging post….

By: joseph

joseph — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:49:10 +0000

Thanks a lot Ben for the comments and directing me to the website.

By: Bennet Simonton

Bennet Simonton — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:42:52 +0000

Tom Peters is still doing the same thing, figuring out what to write and say in order to make his books and lectures sell. I admit that he has been most effective at that. He has been a great cheerleader.

However, he has never been effective at providing us an effective strategy for managing people. At least in his third or fourth book he admitted that anyone who had followed his previous advice would not be better off. I stopped reading him realizing that anyone who never proves in the heat of battle what he professes probably is not worth reading.

If you want to understand the right and wrong ways to manage people, Joseph, please read the article “Leadership, Good or Bad”

There are plenty more at my website.

Best regards, Ben,
Author “Leading People to be Highly Motivated and Committed”