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The best business books ever : the 100 most influential management books you'll never have time to read
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"An introduction to the ideas of the writers whose ideas have demonstrated lasting impact on the art of management, this book offers a handy reference to the history and evolution of business think...
"An introduction to the ideas of the writers whose ideas have demonstrated lasting impact on the art of management, this book offers a handy reference to the history and evolution of business thinking - essential for any manager hoping to separate fad from fact in today's complex environment. From Sun Tzu's The Art of War to the inventors of modern management in the 1920s-40s to the books that have captured the New Economy Zeitgeist. The Best Business Books Ever illuminates each work's key points, its main contribution to the literature, and its historical context."--BOOK JACKET.
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- English
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- Cambridge, MA : Perseus Pub., [2003]
- ©2003
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- ix, 202 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780738208497, 0738208493
- OCLC
- ocm52591984
- Includes index.
- Action Learning: Reg Revans -- Administrative Behavior: Herbert Simon -- The Age of Discontinuity: Peter F. Drucker -- The Age of Unreason: Charles Handy -- The Art of Japanese Management: Richard Pascale and Anthony Athos -- The Art of the Long View: Peter Schwartz -- The Art of War: Sun Tzu -- A Behavioral Theory of the Firm: Richard Cyert and James March -- Being Digital: Nicholas Negroponte -- Blur: Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer -- The Borderless World: Kenichi Ohmae -- Built to Last: James Collins and Jerry Porras -- A Business and Its Beliefs: Thomas Watson, Jr. -- Capital: Karl Marx -- The Change Masters: Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- The Changing Culture of a Factory: Elliot Jaques -- Competing for the Future: Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad -- The Competitive Advantage of Nations: Michael Porter -- Competitive Strategy: Michael Porter -- Complexity: M. Mitchell Waldrop -- Co-opetition: Barry J. Nalebuff and Adam M. Brandenburger -- Corporate Strategy: Igor Ansoff -- Corporate-Level Strategy: Michael Goold, Marcus Alexander, and Andrew Campbell -- The Discipline of Market Leaders: Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema -- Dynamic Administration: Mary Parker Follett -- Emotional Intelligence: Daniel Goleman -- The Fifth Discipline: Peter Senge -- The Functions of the Executive: Chester Barnard -- General and Industrial Management: Henri Fayol -- General Theory of Employment: John Maynard Keynes -- Getting to Yes: Roger Fisher and William Ury -- The Goal: Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox -- How to Win Friends and Influence People: Dale Carnegie -- The HP Way: David Packard -- The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization: Elton Mayo -- The Human Side of Enterprise: Douglas McGregor -- In Search of Excellence: Tom Peters and Robert Waterman -- Information Rules: Carl Shapiro and Hal R. Varian -- Innovation in Marketing: Theodore Levitt -- The Innovator's Dilemma: Clayton M. Christensen -- Intellectual Capital: Thomas Stewart -- The Knowledge-Creating Company: Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi -- Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge: Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus -- Leadership: James MacGregor Burns -- Leading Change: John P. Kotter -- The Living Company: Habits for Survival in a Turbulent Business Environment: Arie de Geus -- The Machine That Changed the World: James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos -- Made in Japan: Akio Morita -- Management Teams: Why They Succeed or Fail: R. Meredith Belbin -- The Managerial Grid: Robert Blake and Jane Mouton -- Managing: Harold Geneen -- Managing Across Borders: Christopher Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal -- Managing on the Edge: Richard Pascale -- Managing Transitions: William Bridges -- Marketing Management: Philip Kotler -- Megatrends: John Naisbitt -- The Mind of the Strategist: Kenichi Ohmae -- Moments of Truth: Jan Carlzon -- Motion Study: A Method for Increasing the Efficiency of the Workman: Frank Gilbreth -- Motivation and Personality: Abraham Maslow -- The Motivation to Work: Frederick Herzberg, Bernard Mausner, and Barbara Bloch Snyderman -- My Life and Work: Henry Ford -- My Years with General Motors: Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. -- Natural Capitalism: Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins -- The Nature of Managerial Work: Henry Mintzberg -- The New Corporate Cultures: Terrence Deal and Allan Kennedy -- New Patterns in Management: Rensis Likert -- On Becoming a Leader: Warren Bennis -- On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures: Charles Babbage -- On War: Carl von Clausewitz -- Onward Industry: James Mooney and Alan Reiley -- The Organization Man: William Whyte -- Organizational Culture and Leadership: Edgar H. Schein -- Organizational Learning: Chris Argyris and Donald Schon -- Out of the Crisis: W. Edwards Deming -- Parkinson's Law: C. Northcote Parkinson -- The Peter Principle: Laurence Peter -- Planning for Quality: Joseph M. Juran -- The Practice of Management: Peter F. Drucker -- The Prince: Niccolo Machiavelli -- Principles of Political Economy: John Stuart Mill -- Principles of Political Economy: David Ricardo -- The Principles of Scientific Management: Frederick Winslow Taylor -- The Quest for Prosperity: Konosuke Matsushita -- Reengineering the Corporation: James Champy and Michael Hammer -- Relationship Marketing: Regis McKenna -- Riding the Waves of Culture: Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner -- The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning: Henry Mintzberg -- Small Is Beautiful: E. F. Schumacher -- Strategy and Structure: Alfred Chandler -- Theory of Economic Development: Joseph A. Schumpeter -- The Theory of Social and Economic Organization: Max Weber -- Theory Z: William Ouchi -- The Third Wave: Alvin Toffler -- Toyota Production System: Taiichi Ohno -- Up the Organization: Robert Townsend -- Valuation: Tom Copeland, Jack Murrin, and Tom Koller -- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information: Edward R. Tufte -- The Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith -- The Will to Manage: Marvin Bower