The book of management wisdom : classic writings by legendary managers /
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| Imprint: | New York ; Chichester : Wiley, c2000. |
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| Description: | xv, 492 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6430450 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Essential Qualities of Great Managers
- The Essential Elements
- What It Takes to Be a Manager
- The CEO as Entrepreneur
- Personality in Business
- Managing Knowledge toward Wisdom
- Lutz's Immutable Laws
- Management's Responsibility
- Part II. Productivity, Empowerment, and Conflict Management
- How to Make Confrontation Work for You
- People
- Mad about Layoffs
- Creating a Culture
- Community Involvement: Key to Profits, Productivity
- The Invisible Fence
- Managing Creativity
- Part III. Hiring, Firing, and Day-to-Day Management
- Managing Crown Princes
- How to Make or Break a Hire
- How G. F. Swift Bossed His Job
- Can Good Management Be Reduced to Simple Rules?
- Skip Meetings
- Machines and Men
- Part IV. The Power of Technology
- Waging a Campaign of Internal Evangelism
- IT Departments: Getting Down to Business
- Repairing the CEO/CIO Disconnect
- Room at the Revenue Inn
- Friction Freedom
- Managing Technology through People
- Part V. Lessons from around the World
- Globalization: A Soft Drink Perspective
- Global Branding
- Morita Shock: A New Paradigm for True Partnership
- The Mind of the Strategist
- It's All Our Business
- Closing the Managment Gap
- What American CEOs Can Learn from German Management
- Part VI. Evolution of the Organization
- On the Division of Labour
- An Employer's View of the Labor Question
- Industrial Consolidation
- When Does Profit Become Usury?
- Modern Ideals of Big Business
- The Multinational Company: New Weight in an Old Balance
- Conglomerates Are Doing Better than You Think
- Part VII. Bashing Bureaucracy
- Flattening the Pyramid
- Removing Walls
- The Myth of the Organization Chart
- The Networked Corporation
- A Perpetual Idea Machine
- Part VIII. Reengineering and Transformation
- From Worst to First
- No One Excluded
- People Will Support That Which They Help Create
- Managing Change Creatively
- A Brand New Day in the Business World
- Reengineering the Corporation
- Planning for Succession
- What Growth and Change Have Taught Us
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Credits and Sources
- Chronology
- Author Index
- Subject Index