America's Two Minute Warning. - book reviews

Washington Monthly, Feb, 1988 by Thomas J. Peters

I will look with interest to the reception that this book receives. Will the authors, even in light of the Crash of '87, be tagged alarmists? Will their suggestions be called outrageous? I wouldn't be surprised. There's been a steady undertone to the criticism of my most recent book. Thriving on chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution -- the ideas are too revolutionary, the goals too bold. (Some of those ideas are carbon copies of those found in Grayson and O'Dell's analysis. For instnace, I propose a several-fold increase in training budgets.) The Grayson and O'Dell analysis, in my opinion, is fundamentally correct. My only argument is that perhaps they should have been a little less true to their foot-ball metaphor. If it had been my book, I would have titled it: America: The Thirty-Second-Warning.

Tom Peters's latest book is Thriving on chaos: A Handbook for a Management Revolution. (Alfred A. Knopf).