The Management Gurus
The Management Gurus

Author: Chris Lauer

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-07-31

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 144063761X

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Insightful summaries of fifteen outstanding management books Since 1978, Soundview Executive Book Summaries has offered its subscribers condensed versions of the most relevant and influential business books published each year. The company has won acclaim as the definitive selection service for business book readers. Following its successful first collection, The Marketing Gurus, Soundview has now compiled The Management Gurus, which includes summaries of fifteen management classics. One of them is a previously unpublished summary: Jack Welch and the 4 E?s of Leadership. Other featured books include: ? Winning with People by John Maxwell ? Judgment by Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis ? Managing Crises Before They Happen by Ian I. Mitroff These summaries distill thousands of pages about leadership, strategy, crisis management, organizational behavior, and more?perfect for busy executives and students.

Management Gurus
Management Gurus

Author: David Collins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-06-01

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1000091600

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This book provides a concise, critical expert overview of the elite group of consultants, analysts and commentators known as ‘management gurus’. Often dismissed as lacking in substance, this volume demonstrates that gurus must be taken seriously given their impact on the world of management. Noting that the gurus are very much products of the 1980s, the book accounts for the rise of this group while challenging those who have attempted to personify – to name and acclaim – the gurus. Reviewing the research on management gurus the book proceeds from a consideration of ‘guru theory’ to offer an analysis of ‘the guru industry’ and ‘guru speak’. Building upon this analysis the book offers a critical engagement with those who have sought to understand gurus as performance artists. Concluding with a radical agenda for future research which situates management’s gurus within the frame of stand-up comedy, this book will enlighten and entertain scholars across the business disciplines and beyond.

Management Gurus and Management Fashions
Management Gurus and Management Fashions

Author: Brad Jackson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2001-03-15

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1134534833

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Since the 1980s, popular management thinkers,gurus have promoted a number of performance improvement programs and management fashions which have greatly influenced both the everyday conduct of organizational life and the preoccupations of academic researchers. This book provides a rhetorical critique of the management guru and management fashio

Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus
Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus

Author: Tim Hindle

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-09-01

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9781846681080

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Good management is a precious commodity in the corporate world. Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus is a straight-forward manual on the most innovative management ideas and the management gurus who developed them. The earlier edition, Guide to Management Ideas, presented the most significant ideas that continue to underpin business management. This new book builds on those ideas and adds detailed biographies of the people who came up with them-the most influential business thinkers of the past and present. Topics covered include: Active Inertia, Disruptive Technology, Genchi Genbutsu (Japanese for "Go and See for Yourself"), The Halo Effect, The Long Tail, Skunkworks, Tipping Point, Triple Bottom Line, and more. The management gurus covered include: Dale Carnegie, Jim Collins, Stephen Covey, Peter Drucker, Philip Kotler, Michael Porter, Tom Peters, and many others.

Management Speak
Management Speak

Author: David Greatbatch

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780415306232

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"Management gurus continue to exert tremendous influence over management thinking and strategy, not only through their published works, but more significantly via the international management lecture circuit. Research suggests that public performances are critical to their popularity and success, and that the "best" gurus are all highly skilled in persuasive communication techniques. This book examines techniques, both verbal and non-verbal, used by gurus to communicate their messages and identifies several additional techniques which enhance the gurus' reputations as highly effective orators. It focuses on video recordings of public lectures given by Tom Peters, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Kenneth Blanchard, Daniel Goleman, Gary Hamil, Charles Handy and Peter Senge who are all renowned for their public performances and the impact they have had on organizational life. Challenging and original, this text provides a unique insight into the management guru industry and the persuasive skills of some its leading proponents." -- Jacket.

The Witch Doctors
The Witch Doctors

Author: John Micklethwait

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 9780749326456

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"The Witch Doctors deserves to do better than the works of most of the gurus it is describing" Sunday Times "To any corporate stiff wondering where in the world the boss got that idea, The Witch Doctors is the place to find out." New York Times Review of Books.

Management Gurus
Management Gurus

Author: Andrzej Huczynski

Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13:

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For over a hundred years organisations have sought the advice of gurus such as Taylor, Fayol, Mayo, Maslow and Peters, and have been willing to pay handsomely for it. Why have the ideas of these consultants become so popular and profitable? What is the secret of their success and can it be emulated? Andrzej Huczynski identifies the essential ingredients of the few popular management ideas of the twentieth century. He shows how company managers, business school academics and management consultants all have the possibility of attaining guru status by following the guidelines contained in this book.

The Success Gurus
The Success Gurus

Author: Andrew Clancy

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-08-18

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1101517751

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Insightful and easy-to-read summaries of fifteen great books. There are dozens of leadership and career books published every year, each promising a different path to success. How are readers expected to get the information they need without reading every one of them? Soundview Executive Book Summaries has developed a reputation for being the premier business book selection service in the country. Each month Soundview editors select and summarize the best books so that readers can get a better idea of what's out there and which books will give them an edge. Soundview follows up its previous books (The Marketing Gurus, The Management Gurus, and The Sales Gurus) with this collection of fifteen synopses of definitive books from authors who know the challenges of having a great career. They include Daniel Pink, Seth Godin, Stephen R. Covey, and Marchall Goldsmith. Two of the summaries have never been published. Each book is represented by main points, key examples, best quotes, and more.

Conversations on Leadership
Conversations on Leadership

Author: Lan Liu

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-09-14

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0470826428

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A veritable who's who in leadership, Conversations on Leadership features Warren Bennis, Jim Kouzes, John Kotter, Noel Tichy, Peter Senge, James March, Howard Gardner, Bill George, and others. Since each leader has a distinctive approach, this book provides the multi-faceted truths of leadership to broaden and deepen the understanding of the readers.

Guide to the Management Gurus
Guide to the Management Gurus

Author: Carol Kennedy

Publisher: Random House Business Books

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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A biography of a Tudor maverick and poetic genius whose life - full of swashbuckling derring-do and courageous defiance - sheds new light on the reign and personality of Henry VIII.