Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
"Henry Mintzberg is perhaps the world's premier management thinker" a Carlsberg-style endorsement of the author from Tom Peters, management guru
Henry Mintzberg is one of today's best-known and most controversial management thinkers. Currently Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Montreal, he is always interesting and usually controversial and holds the management and strategy communities in thrall.
Bruce Ahlstrand likes to prospect for strategy gems in unlikely places - from the game of Texas Hold’em to the Greek tragedies. He has a D.Phil. from Oxford University and a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. Bruce is the author is currently a professor of management at Trent University in Ontario, Canada.
Joe Lampel began his career believing that strategy is the answer, but has recently concluded that it may be the answer to the wrong question. He first began to suspect this terrible truth during the long journey that produced the first edition of Strategy Safari. Joe was awarded a PhD in management by McGill University for good behaviour.
"Henry Mintzberg's views are a breath of fresh air which can only encourage the good guys." The Observer
Tied up in knots by KPIs? Confused by core competencies? Management doesn’t have to be this way. In fact, it shouldn’t be!
One of today’ best-known and most controversial thinkers on management has joined forces with other leading business figures to provide a thought-provoking mix of writing on management. The cutting edge views depicted in this book are controversially the opposite of what is often held up as the truth in management.
Management? Its Not What you Think! brings readers an unusual mix of perspectives to help stimulate more creative management thinking and more enjoyable, challenging and more productive ways to lead their teams. This is a book readers can dip into, a book they can savour, a book that won’t fail to get them reflecting on what management really is…
Management? Think Again!
1) Management Mosaic
The Manager as Orchestra Conductor
Peter Drucker, Jan Carlson and Leonard Sayles
Management: Be careful what you think
Henry Mintzberg
What MANAGEMENT Says and What Managers Do
Albert Shapero
Management and Magic
Martin l. Gimpl and Stephen R. Dakin
2) Management of Meaning
Problems, problems, problems
Smullyan
Waffle Words
Lucy Kellaway
Mana-gems
PowerPoint is Evil
Edward Tufte
Planning as Public Relations
Henry Mintzberg
The Opposite of a Profound Truth is also True
R. Farson
Systematic Buzz Word Generator
Lew Gloin
3) Misleading Management
There are no Leaders, There is only Leadership
Richard Farson
Conversations from a Corner Office
John Mackeytalks with Kai Ryssdal
A Star Executive Does Not Make a Company
John Kay
Rules for being a heroic leader
Henry Mintzberg
A Descent in the Dark
R.R. Reno
Leadership and Communityship
Henry Mintzberg
4) Myths of Managing
Outsourcing the Outsourcers
Spotting Management Fads
Danny Miller
Musings on Management
Henry Mintzberg
To Err is Human
Spyros G. Makridakis
CEOs: Some gamblers
Henry Mintzberg
5) Maxims of Managing
Laws and Rules from A to Z
Unattributed
Parkinson’s Law
Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Maxims in Need of a Makeover
Justin Ewers
Why Most Managers are Plagiarists
Lucy Kellaway
6)Masters of Managing?
Managers Not MBAs (excerpts)
Henry Mintzberg
Harvard’s Masters of the Apocalypse
Phillip Devies Broughton
Games Business Schools Play
Andrew J. Policano
7) Metamorphosing Management
“Change Management” is an Oxymoron
Jim Clemmer
Senior Managers Aren’t Cooks, They’re Ingredients
David K. Hurst
Staying on track
Backing Into a Brilliant Strategy
Richard Pascale
A Parable of Modern Change
Crafting Strategy
Henry Mitnzberg
Wither our Wiki, Worldly, Wounded World
Jonathan Gosling
8) Managing Modestly
Yee gods, what do I do now?
Ian Hamilton
A Long Overdue Letter to the Board
Henry Mintzberg
Here’s an Idea: Let Everyone Have Ideas
William C. Taylor
Managing Quietly
Henry Mintzberg
Managing Without Managers
Ricardo Semler
A WHIRLWIND TOUR OF THE HIDDEN SIDE OF MANAGEMENT
Management: is it about taking charge, being systematic, driving change, making rational decisions? If you think these are the things managers do, this provocative book will make you think again. And if you already suspected that real management is much more messy than it appears in the clean and tidy theory, this book will confirm your suspicions – with a vengeance!
Management? It’s Not What You Think! is a captivating collection of articles, commentaries, poems, rants and more, selected by three renowned management writers who refuse to tread the conventional line. A whole range of delectable titbits will amuse you, challenge you, sometimes even anger you. This book will get you thinking and ultimately, help you bring a more thoughtful approach to your own management style.
“We put in whatever we could find that feels interesting, provocative, and above all insightful. … The intention of this book is to get us all thinking again, opening up perspectives on this fascinating business of management, for managers themselves, those who work with managers, and anyone who aspires to join their ranks.”
A must-read for all managers who think for themselves
- A provocative, imaginative and unusual mix of perspectives that have been bought together by Henry Mintzberg, one of today’s most controversial management thinkers.
- An irreverent and mischievous look at management, which at the same time has a serious point.
- Management has 22% of the overall business market. This book is a different type of management book that will have great appeal to anyone who is interested in management but has a healthy dose of scepticism the management fads out there.
- Benchmark: Strategy Safari (9780273719588) 871 copies sold (TCM Nielsen Bookscan 2009 to the end of Q3).
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
"Henry Mintzberg is perhaps the world's premier management thinker" a Carlsberg-style endorsement of the author from Tom Peters, management guru
Henry Mintzberg is one of today's best-known and most controversial management thinkers. Currently Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Montreal, he is always interesting and usually controversial and holds the management and strategy communities in thrall.
Bruce Ahlstrand likes to prospect for strategy gems in unlikely places - from the game of Texas Hold’em to the Greek tragedies. He has a D.Phil. from Oxford University and a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. Bruce is the author is currently a professor of management at Trent University in Ontario, Canada.
Joe Lampel began his career believing that strategy is the answer, but has recently concluded that it may be the answer to the wrong question. He first began to suspect this terrible truth during the long journey that produced the first edition of Strategy Safari. Joe was awarded a PhD in management by McGill University for good behaviour.