7 S Model

The McKinsey consultants Anthony Athos, Richard Pascale,

Tom Peters and Robert Waterman developed the 7 S
model as a analytical framework in the late 70s when they
researched organizational effectiveness. The consultants
went full circle with this model by linking strategy with
organizational effectiveness. McKinsey & Company began
as consultancy firm specialized in organizational
(re)structuring. By the 1960s, the organization had
developed into a strategy consulting power house. The 7 S
model consisted of seven factors
 Anthony G. Athos dies at 68:
Was a scholar in interpersonal and organizational
behavior

Anthony George Athos, a scholar, author, and

consultant widely recognized by colleagues as an
outstanding teacher-lecturer, died Nov. 29 in San
Francisco after a long illness. He was 68.

Athos held the Jesse Isidor Straus Chair of

Business Administration at the Harvard
Business School until June 1982, where he
Anthony G. Athos

focused on the field of organizational

behavior.

He received both his M.B.A. (1958) and

D.B.A. (1964) degrees from Harvard
University, where he was a Baker Scholar
and then a Sheldon Traveling Scholar.
Writer, lecturer, and management consultant,
born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
He was a McKinsey and Co associate (1974–
81) before founding the Tom Peters Group.
His best-seller, In Search of Excellence (co-
author, 1982), dissected successful corporate
practices and became a business bible.
As a ubiquitous and popular writer, lecturer,
and newspaper columnist, he helped
formulate competitive American management
practices.

Thomas J. Peters (born November 7, 1942) is

an American Writer on business management
practices, best-known for, In Search of
Excellence (co-authored with Robert Waterman
Jr.)
Robert H. Waterman Jr is the co-author, with Tom
Peters, of In Search of Excellence.

Robert Waterman is a business executive, speaker, and

author. His books on business management and
motivation include In Search of Excellence, The
Renewal Factor, Adhocracy: The Power to Change,
and What America Does Right. He directs his own
company, , Inc., after 21 years at the management
consulting firm Mckinsey and Company. Mr.
Waterman chairs the , the national non-profit
organization that sponsors research, raises awareness
of, and looks for better treatments of Restless Leg
Syndrome. He also serves on the boards of the AES
Corporation (the independent power producing
company he helped found) and the World Wildlife
Fund. He earned his MBA from Stanford University
and his degree in geophysics from the Colorado School
of Mines.
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Born in 1938, Pascale was educated at Harvard Business

School. In the late 1970s, he was heavily involved in the
evolution of the 7-S model developed by Peters and Waterman
at McKinsey. As a member of faculty at Stanford's Graduate
School of Business, Pascale acted as an advisor to the White
House and as a consultant to many Fortune 500 companies.
More recently he became an Associate Fellow at Templeton
College, Oxford.
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