home | books | articles | gleanings | case studies | hire
other sites: widgetopia | blueprints for the web | metafooder | Mammahood


 


 


« The Art of Branding | main | A Faceted Approach to Building Ontologies »

excuse the punchline, but

From an interesting article on consulting:

"One of the gurus of management consulting, Tom Peters, made his name with a book co-written with Robert Waterman called "In Search of Excellence."
Of the companies he cited as examples of excellence, two-thirds were to run into trouble. With his theory soundly disproved by reality Peters remarked: "My principles have survived intact, it's just that the companies haven't." "

heh.

Posted at May 27, 2004 09:58 AM


Comments

 

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not...as I read once.

Posted by joe at May 27, 2004 10:12 AM


~~~



Post a comment
*Name:


*Email Address:


URL:


Remember me?

Comments:

bold italic underline link


posting can be slow; please wait a few seconds before hitting the button again.

The extra-fine print
wording stolen by the more-eloquent-than-I kottke
The bold, italics, and link buttons (and associated shortcut keys) only work in IE 5+ on the PC.
Hearty discussion and unpopular viewpoints are welcome, but please keep comments on-topic and *civil*. Flaming, trolling, and ass-kissing comments are discouraged and may be deleted.
All comments, suggestions, bug reports, etc. related to the comments system should be directed to me.


mail entry to a friend

Email this entry to:


Your email address:


Message (optional):




« The Art of Branding | main | A Faceted Approach to Building Ontologies »

 

 

 

home | books | articles | gleanings | case studies | hire
other sites: widgetopia | blueprints for the web | metafooder | Mammahood