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Stop Trying to Create Perfect Stability
When I first read Thriving on Chaos years ago, what remained as a foundational thought, was not any particular model or management technique. It was the challenge buried inside the title itself. Most people spend an enormous amount of energy trying to create conditions that feel permanent. Businesses do it. Leaders do it. Entire industries…
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Thriving On Chaos – The New Normal
In 1987 Tom Peters, bestselling author of ‘In Search of Excellence’ published ‘Thriving on Chaos – Handbook for a Management Revolution’. This was the state of the US economy then: In 1986 138 banks failed, the largest number in one year since the Great Depression The national saving rate, long the lowest in the industrial…

