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Jo Owen is a bestselling business author, leader, social entrepreneur and speaker, who practices what he preaches.He was the best nappy salesman in Birmingham and put the blue speckle in Daz. He led a business in Japan for three years, has been a partner at Accenture, and was the architect of what is now HBOS business banking. He is the co-founder is four charities: Teach First, which is now one of the UK's top graduate recruiters, Future Leaders and Teaching Leaders, which develops leaders for urban schools and StartUp, which helps offenders start their own businesses on release from prison.
He is the author of the classic books How to Lead, How to Manage and Tribal Business School.
<p>"[Owen] steers readers towards ways of assessing what's right for their company in its particular situation." (<em>Director,</em> December 2009) </p>
The Death of Modern Management is a how-to guide for surviving and thriving amidst the new uncertainties of contemporary business.
"...a joyride through new ideas, memorable stories and superb writing." Philip Kotler
"Jo Owen gives a fascinating insight into how 21st century management now works. It is helpful to have someone with his experience, intellect and vision explain the radical changes in a way that makes sense and is immediately usable."
Juliet Hope, CEO, Startup
“Jo Owen delivers a robust and wide-ranging assault on the delusions of management, strategy, finance and marketing that have created an aura of justified mistrust around the modern corporation, but does so with wit, lucidity and lots of enlivening illustrations. The answers for 21st century business are helpfully accessible.”
Professor Nigel Nicholson, London Business School, author of Managing the Human Animal and Family Wars
"...offers insights that help encourage different thinking." Director Magazine
Introduction How We Got Here and Where We Are Going
Chapter 1 Strategy: From Following the Rules to Making the Rules.
Chapter 2 Marketing: From Selling Benefits to Selling Dreams.
Chapter 3 Power: Shifts to a New World Disorder.
Chapter 4 Money: From CAPM to the Road to Ruin.
Chapter 5 Information: From Deficit to Hyperinflation.
Chapter 6 Knowledge: From Ignorance to the Disintegration of the Firm.
Chapter 7 Organisations: From Compliance to Commitment.
Chapter 8 Change: Why Dinosaurs Can’t Dance.
Chapter 9 Employees: From Slavery to Freedom (and Back Again).
Chapter 10 Managers: Power and Making Things Happen.
Chapter 11 Leaders: No More Heroes.
Conclusion.
Index.
So what now?
Bestselling business author Jo Owen is your guide to the dazzling and dangerous new world. The Death of Modern Management shows you how to turn risk into opportunity and succeed where others struggle.
“Jo Owen delivers a robust and wide-ranging assault on the delusions of management, strategy, finance and marketing that have created an aura of justified mistrust around the modern corporation, but does so with wit, lucidity and lots of enlivening illustrations. The answers for 21st century business are helpfully accessible.”
Professor Nigel Nicholson, London Business School, author of Managing the Human Animal and Family Wars
The revolution is happening before our eyes.
The easy certainties of the past are over. Modern management’s simplistic formulas have led to self-defeating conformity. We follow the latest fad but nothing improves because all our competitors are doing the same thing.
So what now?
Techonology promises freedom but delivers slavery. Power is shifting from producers to consumers, from the West to the East, from shareholders to executives. Marketing has to make dreams, not just profits. Smart finance leads to crises not profits. Managers need to manage, not just consult grids. Leaders need to make things happen fast.
Bestselling business author Jo Owen is your guide to this dazzling and exciting new world. The Death of Modern Management shows you how to turn risk into opportunity and succeed where others struggle.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Jo Owen is a bestselling business author, leader, social entrepreneur and speaker, who practices what he preaches.He was the best nappy salesman in Birmingham and put the blue speckle in Daz. He led a business in Japan for three years, has been a partner at Accenture, and was the architect of what is now HBOS business banking. He is the co-founder is four charities: Teach First, which is now one of the UK's top graduate recruiters, Future Leaders and Teaching Leaders, which develops leaders for urban schools and StartUp, which helps offenders start their own businesses on release from prison.
He is the author of the classic books How to Lead, How to Manage and Tribal Business School.