Thinker Profile
Tom PETERS2009 ranking: 19
Tom Peters (b. 1942) is a native of Baltimore. He studied engineering at Cornell, before heading to the west coast to get his MBA and PhD at Stanford. He saw active service in the Vietnam War with the US Navy. In the mid 1970s he joined McKinsey as a consultant, leaving in 1981 to set up his own firm, now part of the Tom Peters Group.
In 1982 appeared In Search of Excellence...