Peters believes that power is a privilege and the privilege can only be earned by treating people humanely...

Peters believes that power is a privilege and the privilege can only be earned by treating people humanely. In Vietnam he saw for himself the moral redundancy of a strategy based on counting bodybags. During his time at Stanford, he fell under the influence of Gene Webb’s brand of libertarian intellectual rigor. At McKinsey he slowly realized the deficiencies of management by dictatorship and bureaucracy. In the years since, the strand that runs through his work is outrage with the systems which constrain human potential (“Workers in the United States – and even more so in England – have been treated like dog food for the past 150 years. In fact, such treatment forms the bedrock logic of the Industrial Revolution: Forget craft. Specialize jobs to the point any idiot can perform them”) and those who run them (“Bosses are clearly the chief source of our troubles… I attack bosses for a living! “).

 

Fuente: The Tom Peters phenomenon. Stuart Crainer. Capstone Publishing Limited. Oxford. 1999.

 

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