Tom Peters Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Tom Peters on X
Extreme Humanism/Don’t get leaders who don’t get it that Job #1 is helping others grow/Design that inspires in everything we do/More women in charge/Navy Seabee

The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership
Sally Helgesen
@SallyHelgesen And I love your book💥💥💥💥(People still constantly talk about In Search of Excellence, 41 years old. In a parallelism, when it comes to Sally Helgesen, I still talk about the 28-year-old The Female Advantage, which dramatically changed my professional life.)
Paperback, 1995
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World's Most Creative People
Debbie Millman
Tom's Design manifesto shares must-reads: -Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions by @GuyKawasaki -Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People by @debbiemillman -Design Is Storytelling by @ellenLupton ^HB https://tompeters.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Tom-Peters-EH_Design.pdf https://t.co/G9lmhbVAPT
Hardcover, 2022
$60.00$35.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times
Tom Peters
@DonAntonucci @ChideraSays For what it’s worth my favorites among my own work, organized by pub date: *In Search of Excellence *The Pursuit of Wow! *The Project50/The Brand You50/The Professional Service Firm50 *Re-Imagine *Extreme Humanism *Tom Peters Compact Guide to Excellence
Paperback, 1994
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
Bo Burlingham
@AtomicAdMan @ShahinKhan Get over the Fortune 500; it employs <10% of us. There are hundreds of thousands of positive role models of excellence among SMEs! (Among other things, study books such as Bo Burlingham’s Small Giants and Bill Taylor’s Simply Brilliant.)
Paperback, 2016
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Art of Caring Leadership: How Leading with Heart Uplifts Teams and Organizations
Heather R. Younger
Micro book club/Read these four/Damn it: Survival of the Friendliest, Brian Hare & Vanessa Woods. The War for Kindness, Jamil Zaki. The Art of Caring Leadership, Heather Younger. Kindness in Leadership, Gay Haskins.
Paperback, 2021
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition
Jane Jacobs
@freeagentglobal @nytimes FYI, Jane Jacobs close kin; e.g., The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Wonderful book.
Hardcover, 2011
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Power of Small: Why Little Things Make All the Difference
Linda Kaplan Thaler
I cannot think of a more powerful pair of books than Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval’s The Power of Nice and The Power of Small.
Hardcover, 2009
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies - New Edition
Scott Page
@Mushcado Read Scott Page’s superb book, The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies My fav line from a sophisticated foreign-policy experiment: “Diversity trumps ability.”
Paperback, 2008
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Red Team Blues: A Martin Hench Novel
Cory Doctorow
About to dig into Cory Doctorow’s new Red Team Blues. Can’t wait!
Hardcover, 2023
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tom Peters' Compact Guide to Excellence
Tom Peters
Tom Peters Compact Guide to Excellence/Tattered Cover/Denver International Airport https://t.co/yUXg44B5yG
Paperback, 2022
$22.50$11.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book