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Management from the Masters: From Confucius to Warren Buffett Twenty Timeless Principles for Business

Autor Morgen Witzel
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 ian 2014
The belief that everything is changing led to the disasters of the dotcom era. This book reminds us that some fundamental rules do still apply by taking readers through 20 imperatives derived from the wisdom of great leaders and management theorists including Peter Drucker, Henry Fayol, Andrew Grove and bankers and financiers such as Thomas Gresham and Warren Buffet. This entertaining run down of the fundamental laws, rules and principles business professionals should break at their peril is complemented by case studies that document the consequences of ignoring these key laws. Management from the Masters is a book to be read and re-read to reinforce the fundamental rules of business for all successful managers.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472904751
ISBN-10: 1472904753
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția A&C Black Business Information and Development
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Includes 20 laws such as: Buffet's Rule: 'Never invest in something you don't understand'; Darwin's Rule: 'Adapt or die'; The Peter Principle: 'People are promoted to the level of their incompetence'; Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Failure to understand human motivation is a classic cause of business failure.

Notă biografică

Morgen Witzel is a Fellow of the Centre for Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter Business School. He is author of more than twenty books including the bestsellers Tata: The Evolution of a Corporate Brand and Doing Business in China, now in its third edition. His books have been translated into 11 languages. His articles have appeared in the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Toronto Globe and Mail, The Smart Manager, Financial World, and many others.

Cuprins

About the Author Introduction Part 1 The Laws of the Universe 1 The Law of Entropy (Time's Arrow) 2 Darwin's Rule 3 The Rule of Yin and Yang 4 The Law of Unintended Consequences Part 2 The Laws of Human Behaviour 5 The Hierarchy of Needs 6 Confucius's Golden Rule 7 Kautilya's Rule 8 Buffett's Rule 9 Grove's Rule Part 3 The Laws of Organisation 10 Moore's Law 11 The Pareto Principle 12 Rule of the Span of Control 13 Parkinson's Law 14 The Iron Law of Oligarchy 15 The Peter Principle 16 Gresham's Law 17 Martin's Rules 18 Fayol's Fourteen Points 19 Deming's Fourteen Points 20 Drucker's Rule Bibliography

Recenzii

Morgen Witzel's new text covers millennia of distilled management wisdom. The author has an almost-encyclopedic knowledge of the field. The book is both highly readable and informative and truly brings the topic to life. It should thus have a wide appeal to students, lecturers and practitioners.
A rip-roaring history of managerial, philosophical and scientific thought that captures twenty enduring principles of human and organisational behaviour. Few other authors could cover so broad and complex a range of ideas in such a straightforward and engaging manner.
This entertaining book offers time tested wisdom and provides insights that will be instantly useful to anyone involved in business.
Morgen Witzel, one of the world's leading management historians has done it again. He has written another outstanding book that is a pleasure to read and at the same time makes us think deeply about important management principles that are historical yet entirely relevant for our challenging global economy.
Did you know that the law of entropy as applied to business derives from the second law of thermodynamics? Or that Arthashastra, Kautilya's classic work on politics and leadership, was written in India over 2,300 years ago? Or that the 'concept of the span of control was first formally identified by the Lithuanian engineer V.A. Graicunas in the early 1930s'? These and many other fascinating references, all still highly relevant to contemporary - and doubtless to future - business practices, are peppered throughout Morgen Witzel's delightful and thought-provoking volume of cautionary notes. They are culled and interpreted from sages across the globe and centuries, and concern the art and practice of managing.