1. Themes for Excellent Organizations Peters and Waterman
A Bias for action
Close relations to the customer
Autonomy and entreneurship
Productivity through people
Hands-on, Value-Driven
Stick to the Knitting
Simple Form, Lean Staff
Simultaneous Loose-Tight Properties

2. Critics of Peters and Waterman
Prescriptions for managerial practice rather than descriptions or explanations of organizational life
”Value Engineering”: Effective culture leaders could create strong cultures
Integration & control
Culture= positive effects on performance
Naive to assume single cultural formula for achieving organizational succes
All organizational participants share the same culture?
Organizations culture is relatively stable over time