Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution

Peters argues that everywhere and every day managers confront shattering and accelerating change paced by constant innovations in computers and telecommunications technologies. They confront a chaotic new world in which competitors spring up overnight and old ones disappear as companies merge and de-merge and this year's touted start-ups become next year's failures--all within the context of a tangled global financial network. In such a world, Peters maintains, merely aspiring to be excellent will prove disastrous; the only winning companies will be the constantly adapting ones. Peters believes that developing such flexibility will require a revolution in both management theory and day-to-day management practice, and offers a bold program for action. (For sale in India at Rs.84.00).