“Real People” is the shorthand title for what Tom calls “Excellence for the Rest of Us: A Book for Real People, Working in the Real World in 2008.” In this manifesto, Tom contrasts the thinking of gurus (like him!) to the thinking of the rest of us … those who toil in more conventional settings. In Search of Excellence introduces this idea when Tom and Bob Waterman write, “Hard is Soft. Soft is Hard.” By that phrase, they are referring to the people things, the soft stuff that’s more difficult than the numbers game of business. Tom revisits and expands on this thinking in “Real People.”
Download file, 552 KB