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Tom Peters Abstract Motivation continues to be a pervasive theme in the organizational world. Several theories have been advanced on what truly motivates people in the work place, some having survived the rigors of real world application better than others. Early theorists, such as Maslow and Herzberg, provided a framework upon which contemporary theories have been built. One of those contemporary theorists, Tom Peters, turned the organizational behavior world upside-down in the 1980’s with his untraditional approach to management, quality, empowerment and ultimately, motivation. His principles have been successfully applied by many companies, including UPS, Dell Computer, 3M, IBM, and Wal-Mart. Peters – A Bios He describes himself as a prince of disorder, champion of bold failures, maestro of zest, professional loudmouth, corporate cheerleader, lover of markets, capitalist pig, and card-carrying member of the ACLU (Peters, 2003). Other business magazines have described him as Ur-guru (guru of gurus) of management, and business' best friend and worst nightmare (Peters, 2003). He is the author of several books, has made a series of videos, and has also written numerous articles that have been published in newspapers as well as magazines. He is an editor for a column in Tribune quality, ups, success, companies, peters, employees, people, management, work, customer, one, needs, tom, improvement, excellence, company, successful, organization, leadership, customers, satisfaction, research, dell, 3m, 2003, world, within, theory, must, motivation, job, innovation, ibm, growth