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What the media are writing about Tom, his appearances, and his books. Some of the links on this page will take you to electronic equivalents of articles that have appeared in national print magazines or in newspapers. Other links will lead you to pieces that you'll find only on the Internet. You'll find reviews of The Little BIG Things, general profiles of Tom, and interviews with Tom.
Still in Search of Excellence, The Quality Coach Blog, 29 April 2013
Inspired by Tom Peters, REMCON Plastics Adopts Forward-Thinking Human Resources Policy With Addition of 'Dream Manager' to Staff, MarketWatch.com, 8 April 2013
How Tom Peters Taught Me To Knit, Forbes, 6 March 2013
Using Social Media to Manage by Walking Around, business2community.com, 11 February 2013
"Listen. Listen. Listen. 3 Words to Save a Struggling Business.", FESPA.com, 26 November 2012
Book Changes World 30 Years of Excellence, Forbes, 19 November 2012
A manifesto for the new rules on human capital, Financial Times, 26 August 2012
Getting to Guru, Washington Post, 8 August 2012
Business First awards programs honor excellence, BizJournals.com, 20 July 2012
Linkage Announces 2012 Recipients of Warren Bennis Award for Excellence in Leadership, DigitalJournal.com, 28 June 2012
Is There Really a War in Education? HuffingtonPost.com, 26 June 2012
What Your Brain Has to Do With Your Brand, Inc., 25 June 2012
ACUC: Tom Peters: Stop talking and start doing, CUNA.org, 19 June 2012
Onsite Coverage: Cheney Announces Three New Initiatives in ACUC Opening Remarks, Credit Union Times, 18 June 2012
Insurers Sail Under "Winds of Change," InsuranceTech.com, 15 June 2012
Personal Relationships Powerful in Business Success, Says Author Tom Peters, InsuranceTech.com, 12 June 2012
Tom Peters on Excellence, People and Innovation, WOBI blog, 24 May 2012
'Do One Thing Every Day That Scares You', Credit Union Magazine, 18 May 2012
Peters: It's Good to be the Little Guy, Credit Union Magazine, 17 May 2012
'Reward Excellent Failure, Punish Mediocre Success', Credit Union Magazine, 16 May 2012
Dear Tom Peters, Six Pixels of Separation, 4 May 2012
Why Management Guru, Tom Peters, Responded to My Tweet, ABiggerVoiceBlog.com, 27 April 2012
Ian Sanders - Author and Marketing Expert, IdeaMensch.com, April 2012
If Not Excellence, What? Tom Peters & Business Models, Innovation Leadership Network, 20 March 2012
Business Values For a New Century, Corban & Blair, 16 March 2012
Tom Peters on the importance of good people and good design, Idealog, 15 March 2012
Analyst proffers recession-busting advice, Stuff.co.nz, 15 March 2012
Double Shot Interview with Tom Peters, Interest.co.nz, 14 Mar 2012
Tom Peters tosses the textbooks, Unlimited.co.nz, 14 March 2012
Every detail counts, thestar.com.my, 10 March 2012
Redefining Excellence for Today's World, Forbes, 6 March 2012
Aligning Values. Game On!, Business2Community.com, 5 March 2012
Why Now Is The Time To Build Your Personal Brand, Business2Community.com, 2 March 2012
Using Design Noise To Amp Up Your Creative Thinking, Forbes, 1 March 2012
G&G Me With a Buccellati Silver Spoon! The OA Editor Takes Down the Competition, Oxford American, 23 February 2012
The Upside-Down Appeal of 'Downton Abbey', New York Times Sunday magazine, 17 February 2012
The Most Influential Business Book Of The Last 30 Years, Fast Company, 6 February 2012
Tom Peters Still Rocks, Forbes.com, 11 January 2012
Reminders from Tom, Basics from Jim, News from Me, Alan Webber's Blog, 30 December, 2011
The Best Leaders of 2011, Washington Post, 13 December 2011
Benchmarking: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, Business2Community.com, 26 November 2011
Brand Thinking with Debbie Millman and Tom Peters, 800CEOREAD.com, 17 November 2011
The Tom Peters Interview - "Excellence NOW", InnovationExcellence.com, 7 November 2011
Re-imagine!...The Musical, Shortcuts to Managing Right, 6 November 2011
Economy Slump to Worsen, BusinessLive.co.za, 22 October 2011
From Terry Francona to Tony La Russa, why there's no such thing as the best manager in baseball, Washington Post, 18 October 2011
Obsession helps excellence rise above mediocrity, Financial Times, 28 August 2011
Age of Greed by Jeff Madrick, 2011
Get Ahead by Doing the Little Big Things, The QuickBase Blog, 29 July 2011
Tom Peters on Excellence, Project Ltd. Coffee Conversations, 26 July 2011
Customer Loyalty, Customer Love Blog, 7 July 2011
Tom Peters' Personal Branding Lessons, Part 1: Why YOUR Blog Matters, SocialMediaReinvention.com, 5 July 2011
Cheers to those with a half-empty glass, Financial Times, 3 July 2011
Three Questions, Hindustan Times, 3 July 2011
"PM Is In the Culture Development Business" Says Tom Peters, PMSolutions.com, 1 July 2011
Aiming High, The Economist, 30 June 2011
Management guru tells grad students that leadership springs from excellence, Norwich Today, 24 June 2011
Tom Peters Implores Builders to Innovate, BuilderOnline.com, 6 June 2011
Think Tank: Why we all need a 'To Don't' List, just like Moses, Telegraph, 23 April 2011
Leadership Hall of Fame: Tom Peters, Author of "In Search of Excellence", FastCompany, 11 March 2011
Walmart and HP: Founded on People Power, FastCompany, 9 March 2011
Imagine it's a new staff every day, because it is, HeraldNet.com, 7 March 2011
YOU need a social media strategy, not your business, Advisor.ca, 26 January 2011
Tom Peters sees your blind spots, The Globe and Mail, 12 January 2011
A 2011 shout-out to Tom Peters, Sustainable Work blog, 4 January 2011
The Management Gurus Due for a Review, Financial Times, 3 January 2011
A little kindness at the workplace boosts revenue, Business Daily Africa, 13 December 2010
Top Five: Twitter Feeds for Entrepreneurs, Open Forum/MSNBC, 5 December 2010
The Dylan Ratigan Show, MSNBC, 1 December 2010
Happy Birthday Tom Peters!, Marketing Is Us Blog, 7 November 2010
The Personal Branding Paradox: Being Nobody, Huffington Post, 20 October 2010
Who You Callin' A Brand?, Forbes.com, 20 October 2010
The Six Minute Book Summary of The Pursuit of Wow by Tom Peters, Bukisa.com, 14 October 2010
Soft is hard and hard is soft, Philippine Star, 10 October 2010
Main Street business: Pursuing excellence, you can be that leader, Daily-Journal.com, 13 October 2010 (Registration required)
Kindness is Free, Oman Economic Review, September 2010
Personal branding, the brand called you, Newsday Zimbabwe, 23 September 2010
20 questions: Tom Peters, management guru, Financial Times, 17 September 2010
Why The Brand Must Be The Story, PSFK.com, 7 September 2010
Guru Tom Peters' 10 Tips to Senior Tom Peters, U.S. News & World Report, 1 September 2010
Kindness can be the hardest word, Financial Times, 23 August 2010
Tom Peters: two good ways to disrupt your business, SmartPlanet.com, 20 August 2010
Reinventing Ourselves, Success Magazine, 17 August 2010
Are Systems More Important than Star Players? A Twitter Conversation w/ Tom Peters, Mike Myatt + Roger van Oech, Stephen Denny's blog, 9 August 2010
Meet the MasterMinds: A Conversation with Tom Peters, Management Consulting News, 6 August 2010
Why You Should Blog (Even If Only Your Mom Reads It), ITWorldCanada.com, 4 August 2010
LEADER'S EDGE: AN INTERVIEW WITH TOM PETERS, Ivey Business Journal, 1 August 2010
Tom Peters, I Love You, Highfill Performance Group, 23 July 2010
Tom Peters Innovative Move, The Midwest Laboratories Blog, 23 July 2010
Incorporating the CV into Staff Management, Six Figures Blog, 21 July 2010
Strategies for Keeping a Positive Outlook, MarketingProfs.com, 14 July 2010
Hope: Don't Leave Home Without It, OPEN Forum, 12 July 2010
If your desk is moved into the corner, you're in trouble, my friend, London Evening Standard, 12 July 2010
Why American Workers Need To Toughen Up, USNews.com, 17 June 2010
Tom Peters: Who Comes Close? Pradeep Henry's Blog, 16 June 2010
Kindness is free and turns a profit, business guru Tom Peters '64 says in Olin Lecture, Cornell Chronicle, 12 June 2010
Idea Of D.School Meets B.School is Not New, BloggingInnovation.com, 9 June 2010
Corporate Culture, Is it Still Relevant in an Economic Crisis?, StockMarketsReview.com, 31 May 2010
The Intelligent Investor, Seattle Post Intelligencer, 28 May 2010
The Little Things That Lead to Excellence, Associations Now, June 2010
Tom Peters on Social Media, John Taylor's Blog, 29 May 2010
Be a Follower, Entrepreneur, 15 April 2010
The risks of a bias for action, Financial Times, 14 May 2010
An Open Letter to Tom Peters, The Sales Blog, 7 May 2010
When YOU Are the Brand, ChrisBrogan.com, 3 May 2010
Re-Set Business Breakfast, 21 April 2010
Excellence Guru Talks at Saint Francis University, Pennsylvania Business Central, 19 April 2010
Discover the 19 Es of Excellence, Ian Paul Marshall, personal development coach and blogger, 18 April 2010
Marketing Communication—It's a Little BIG Thing, It's Everything, Marketing Is Us, 14 April 2010
Enterprise* (*At Its Best), an excerpt from The Little BIG Things, ChangeThis.com, 7 April 2010
Cool Speakers for 2010—Tom Peters, Nick Morgan at PublicWords, 7 April 2010
Living By Design, Forbes India, 2 April 2010
Can Tom Peters Help Us Find Excellence In An America That Needs To Re-Set Its Thinking? Huffington Post, 1 April 2010
Excerpt from The Little BIG Things. Item #133: It's All About the Mud! on AmEx OPEN Forum, 29 March 2010
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Grandma Was Right, Alexandra Levit, WallStreetJournal.com (subscription required), 28 March 2010
Tom Peters on The Little BIG Things, Part One (27 March 2010), and Part Two (28 March 2010), Anthony Iannarino at The Sales Blog
Little BIG Things | Money Quotes, John Moore at BrandAutopsy.com, 22 March 2010
Tom Peters Highlights, TheGrowthGuy.com, 19 March 2010
Achieve Excellence With Your Branding Strategy, BusinessWeek.com, 19 March 2010
163 Ways To Be More Awesome At Your Business, BusinessInsider.com, 16 March 2010
Tom Peters Talks About the Little BIG Things, David Meerman Scott, 15 March 2010
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Memo to Tom Peters from the Department of Punctuation!!! Debbie Weil, 11 March 2010
Boring Brands, Six Pixels of Separation, 12 March 2010
A Sense of Control, Six Sigma & Process Excellence IQ blog, 11 March 2010
Video Book Review of The Little BIG Things, Chris Brogan,
9 March 2010
Epigrams from the Original Modern Guru, by Stefan Stern at the Financial Times, 4 March 2010
Sometimes It's Worth Going the Extra Mile (Lessons from Tom Peters), the 26th Story/HarperStudio Blog (HarperStudio is the publisher of The Little BIG Things),
19 February 2010
Is Engagement More Important? Chris Brogan's blog, 17 February 2010
25 Best HR Experts, Blogs, and Influencers, 2009
Library Journal, 15 February 2010 (scroll down about 1/4 of the page)
Tom Peters: He Who Tries The Most Stuff The Fastest Wins, Unplan Your Business, 10 February 2010
Rethinking the "diversification discount," Financial Times, 30 January 2010
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Kevin Roberts on Tom Peters, KR Connect, 19 January 2010
Innovation Perspectives—Active Senior Opportunities, BloggingInnovation.com, 13 January 2010
Two attacks highlight counterterrorism's bureaucratic bog, Washington Post, 6 January 2010
Recession survival tips from an expert, HeraldNet.com, 4 January 2010
What Those 'Other People' Do, Flathead Beacon, 23 December 2009
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Tax on bonuses—Tom Peters speaks (or tweets), Financial Times, 10 December 2009
Where Is Your Desk? Another "High Touch" Lesson for Hospitality Managers, HospitalityNet.org, 20 November 2009
Tom Peters: in search of great leadership, Elevate, 12 November 2009
buy viagra quickThe Lectern: A focus on results in government—even in Saudi Arabia, Federal Computer Week, 5 November 2009
Announcing our Newest Contributor—Tom Peters, BloggingInnovation.com, 5 November 2009
The Most Influential Management Gurus, Forbes, 14 October 2009
Tom Peters - you can't keep a good man down, Financial Times, 9 October 2009
Management by Flying Around, HarvardBusiness.org, 21 September 2009
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Polish your interview technique to find the right employee, The Globe and Mail, 14 September 2009
Performance-related pay, Economist.com, 27 August 2009
Decentralisation, Economist.com, 27 August 2009
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The Answer Men, New York, 26 July 2009
Let's Talk "Experience Development", HospitalityNet.org, 16 July 2009
Time for more MBWA (Management By Walking Around), SmartPlanet.com, 15 July 2009
The Financial crises as a challenge for the industry, GlassOnWeb.com, 13 July 2009
Build A Support System, Investors.com, 10 July 2009
Wake-up Call, Success, 7 July 2009
What is Personal Branding?, Examiner.com, 7 July 2009
Leadership is all about engaging people, Economic Times, 26 June 2009
Understanding and Living Values, 4Hoteliers.com, 24 June 2009
'The Stockdale Paradox' and 'Marketing Myopia', West Michigan Business News, 17 June 2009
Roger Dow Leads the Troops, MeetingNews.com, 15 June 2009
The Self-Employed Depression, New York Times, 2 June 2009
Focus key to green growth, Peters says, Korea Herald, 28 May 2009
Improving your communication in an e-mail world, Air Force Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, 27 May 2009
Connecting to customers, Trucks at Work Blog, 27 May 2009
Growth engines named, JoonAng Daily, 27 May 2009
Credibility: A critical foundation of leadership, TheUnion.com, 25 May 2009
Dullness: A Euphemism for Status Quo, HuffingtonPost.com, 22 May 2009
Robert Byron Wilson, 1936-2009; Elgin Corrugated Box Co. exec, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2009
Which Media Companies Will Fall? HuffingtonPost.com, 20 May 2009
Wake Up to the Opportunity, SUCCESS magazine, May 2009
Tom Peters: In Search of Leadership Heroes, TrainingZone.co.uk, 24 April 2009
Personal Branding Essential, Canada.com, 22 Apr 2009
10 Ways Leaders Can Get Crucial Feedback, TechRepublic Blog, 20 April 2009
Design Champions, No Contest, New Zealand Herald, 6 April 2009
Management Guru: Tom Peters, Economist.com, 5 March 2009
For Advice That's Never Stale, Pick Up A Classic Business Book, OPEN Forum at American Express, 3 March 2009
Good Companies Come in Small Packages, New Zealand Herald, 23 February 2009
Escaping the Bust Bowl, Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, 11 February 2009
How to Fire Right, Tom on the Art of the Layoff, Fortune Small Business, 29 January 2009
Carly Fiorina and Tom Peters back presidential rivals, New York Times, 28 Oct 2008
Layoffs Bad for Business, Fortune Small Business video, 23 Oct 2008
5 Blogs & 5 Blawgers, Vancouver Law Librarian Blog, 5 Sept 2008
Women tell developer the tricks of female-friendly shopping, Ottawa Citizen, 5 Sept 2008
Who's Tom?, NetAge Endless Knots, 4 Sept 2008
America Needs More Women Leaders, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Sept 2008
Are We Going to Abilene? Reverb Consulting, 01 September 2008
Talent: The Key to Rebuilding Ford’s Brand? Tom Peters might agree, EnterpriseMedia.com, 1 August 2008
It's Time for a Brand New You, Financial Times, 31 July 2008
Michael Millenson's 8-Day Health Care Diary, HealthAffairs.org, 10 July 2008
Focus on the Present, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 19 July 2008
The resale market has its challenges, but prices still rise, Vancouver Sun, 12 July 2008
Photo of Tom in Zagreb, Croatia, Liderpress.com, 6 June 2008
New Breed of Business Gurus Rises, Wall Street Journal, 5 May 2008
Recommended Reading for Entrepreneurs, HeraldNet, 28 April 2008
China Needs Old Boys With M.B.A.'s, Joe Nocera, New York Times, 19 April 2008
Following the Money Creates a Trail to Women, Carolyn Kepcher, NY Daily News, 17 March 2008
Charles Handy on Gurus, 800 CEO Read, an excerpt from Handy's Myself and Other More Important Matters, 24 Jan 2008
Senior Marketers Go for Godin, Have Had Their Fill of Long Tail, AdAge.com, 26 Nov 2007 (Registration required)
5 Questions ... for Tom Peters, USAToday.com, 30 Sept 2007
The Little Prince Debate, by Aaron at 800-CEO-READ, 9 Sept 2007
Creating Brand You, BusinessWeek, 20 August 2007
Five Business Book Classics—The Essay, by Todd Sattersten at 800-CEO-READ
Ten Years After (PDF), by Dori Molitor, the HUB magazine, 1 July 2007
New Boom Market: Older Boomer Women, AdAge.com, 30 July 2007 (Video
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Leading! Without! Tom! Peters! Time.com, March 15, 2007
Guns and Butter, Wall Street Journal, 15 November 2006 (Subscription required)
The Handy Guide to the Gurus of Management, BBC.co.uk, October 2006
Amazon.com's Top 10 on Talent, AdAge.com, 4 Sept 2006
Experiment Fearlessly, InformationWeek.com, 12 August 2006
Innovation [Is] the Key, CNN.com, 23 April 2006
A Brief History of Our Time, Fast Company, March 2006 (contribution)
Cover Gallery: First Impressions, Fast Company, March 2006
American Society of Magazine Editors' Top 40 Magazine Covers of the Last 40 Years (1965–2005)
Build Teams With Free Agents, Columbus Business First, 9 Sept 2005 (review of Essentials: Talent)
The Rarity of Passion-driven Teams, Dan Bobinski, Management-Issues.com, 21 July 2005
We Live in a Tom Peters World, Bizcommunity.com, 5 June 2005
Cooling off on off-brand uses of too-hot word 'brand,' William Safire, Houston Chronicle, 9 April 2005
Putting Fun into Business Conferences, The Economist, 10 March 2005
Video from Dubai, AME Info website (Registration required)
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Top 10 business & investing book list, Amazon.com
Check it out! Tom is popular in the UK
Amazon.co.uk review of Re-imagine!
Tom moves from No.5 to No. 3 on The Thinkers 50 2003 List
How to Read a Business Book, Fast Company, November 2004
The Real Secrets of Entrepreneurs, Fortune, 15 Nov 2004
Was Built to Last Built to Last? Fast Company, November 2004
Rock Stars of Business, AmericanWay, American Airlines' In-flight Magazine, 1 Nov 2004
The Brand You Survival Kit, Fast Company, June 2004
Peters warns of lack of vision over management's role, Business.Scotsman.com, 21 April 2004
U.S. jobs reach end of an era, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 March 2004
Companies crow about keeping jobs in the USA, USA Today, 12 Mar 2004
Women Roar: Why Women Are a Trend Worth Trillions$$$, WomensBiz US, March 2004
What Women Want, Entrepreneur magazine, February 2004
Excellence revisited, Economist, 18 Dec 2003 (Subscription required)
Author: More Women Should Be In Charge, USA Today, 7 Dec 2003, contains a link to a chapter excerpt from Re-imagine!
Meet the MasterMinds: A Conversation with Tom Peters, Management Consulting News, December 2003
Guru Peters still reinventing himself, CNN.com, 24 Nov 2003
Speaker Urges Flexibility: Author Tom Peters Tells Crowd to Re-imagine Careers, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 Nov 2003
Homebred CEO Summons IBM's Past, Present, Future, USA Today, 20 Nov 2003 (Tom is quoted)
Peters Principles Can Help You Create Your Brand, USA Today, 17 Nov 2003
A Guru's Advice in Technicolor, New York Times, 2 Nov 2003 (Subscription required)
Every Recession and Every Recovery Has a Nostradamus, New York Times (Week in Review), 2 Nov 2003 (Subscription required)
Tearing It Up and Starting All Over Latest Recipe for Business Success, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov 2003
Keeping An Eye on Change: Self-help Guru Has Bullish View on the Future of Business and Technology, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov 2003
Still Angry After All These Years, Fast Company, October 2003
Jobs Will Return ... Someday, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Oct 2003
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Author Puts the Word Out On Women's Economic Clout, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct 2003
Guru or hype-meister? Telegraph, 5 Oct 2003
Excellence Sought—And Found, Forbes, 4 Oct 2002
Tom Peters' True Confessions, Fast Company, December 2001
Leadership Is Confusing as Hell, Fast Company, March 2001
The Wow Project, Fast Company, April 1999
Your Money or Your Time, The Economist, 7 July 1998 (Subscription required)
The Brand Called You, Fast Company, Aug/Sept 1997
