Tom Peters is guest speaker at the 170th VHS Annual Meeting, September 13, 2008

In Search of Excellence: The Vermont Way
Tom Peters is guest speaker at the 170th VHS Annual Meeting, September 13, 2008
MONTPELIER: The Vermont Historical Society welcomes Tom Peters as the keynote speaker at the 170th Annual Meeting at the Pavilion Building in Montpelier, September 13, 11:30 am. Admission is free, open to public. The Pavilion building is located next to the State House.
A celebrated "quality guru" of business management, Peters has lived in Vermont for the last 25 years, and has a passion for history. Tom's presentations are marked not only by his stunning breadth of interests and skill at tailoring his message to suit the needs of widely diverse audiences, but in particular by the contagious passion and energy he brings to his topic.
Tom Peters led the way in preparing management for the current era of staggering change, starting in the mid-1970s. The likes of Fortune, the Economist, the New Yorker and the Los Angeles Times have referred to Peters as the "uber-guru" of management, and that "in no small part, what American corporations have become is what Peters has encouraged them to be."
In 1982, with the publication of In Search of Excellence, Tom and co-author Bob Waterman helped American firms deal with a crushing competitive challenge to their primacy by getting them away from strategies based on just the numbers, and re-focused on the basic drivers of all successful businesses throughout time: People, customers and values, the "culture," action-execution, a perpetual self-renewing entrepreneurial spirit.
Perhaps the Bloomsbury Press book, Movers and Shakers: The 100 Most Influential Figures in Modern Business, summed Tom's work up best: "Tom Peters has probably done more than anyone else to shift the debate on management from the confines of boardrooms, academia, and consultancies to a broader, worldwide audience, where it has become the staple diet of the media and managers alike... it is Peters-as consultant, writer, columnist, seminar lecturer, and stage performer-whose energy, style, influence, and ideas have shaped the way new management thinks."
The Vermont Historical Society is a nonprofit organization with offices in Barre and Montpelier, engaging both Vermonters and "Vermonters at heart" in the exploration of our state's rich heritage by reaching a broad audience through outstanding collections, statewide outreach, and dynamic programming. The Vermont Historical Society believes that an understanding of the past changes lives and builds better communities.
For information on the Vermont Historical Society, call 802-479-8500, or go to www.vermonthistory.org. For information on Tom Peters, go to www.Tompeters.com ###