In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies

He is an economist, writer, from the United States of America, born in Baltimore, Maryland.

Peters was born in Baltimore in 1942 "with a lacrosse stick in one hand and paddles on my shoulder", and resided in California, primarily Silicon Valley (where he was listed as the "100 Most Powerful People in Silicon Valley"), from 1965 to 2000. Today, Peters lives and his wife, Susan Sargent, on a 1,600-acre working farm, "always under construction" in Vermont. His sons, Max and Ben Cooper, are "busy changing the world" in Telluride and Brooklyn respectively.
Peters is a civil engineering graduate from Cornell University (B. in Business at Stanford; he holds honorary doctorates from institutions ranging from the University of San Francisco to Moscow State University of Management - and has been honored by dozens of associations in content areas such as management and leadership) Quality, Human Resources, Customer Service, Innovation, Marketing and Design.In the US Navy from 1966-1970, he made two deployments in Vietnam (as a combat engineer in the legendary Navy Seabees) and “survived a Pentagon tour.” He was a White House counsel on drug abuse in 1973- 1974, then worked for McKinsey & Co from 1974 to 1981, became a partner in 1979; he also co-founded the giant organization effectiveness practice McKinsey Now. Peters' main moves are "cutting in the summer, hiking in New Zealand in the winter, and reading books Date by the centenary, gather curious friends, talk to cab drivers, visit Venice, and race George Clooney into accumulating frequent flyer miles.