Fortune calls Tom Peters the Ur-guru of management and compares him to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and H.L. Mencken. The Economist tags him the Uber-guru. His unconventional views led business week to describe him as “business’s best Friend and worst nightmare.”
Tom describes himself as a prince of disorder, champion of bold failures, maestro of zest, professional loudmouth (as a speaker he’s a spitter” according to
The cartoon strip Dilbert), corporate cheerleader, lover of markets, capitalist pig
And card-carrying member of the ACLU