Idea first

Author: Andrea Gabor
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Everything is so simple—just change your perspective on the world! The lives, thoughts, and eras of 13 Western management masters! The fascinating stories of great thinkers as told by Gabor provide important insights for enlightened business leaders, helping them find eternal truths amidst fleeting management fads. This book explores the personal careers and intellectual development of the management masters and describes how these thinkers had both positive and negative impacts on major corporations. It analyzes in detail the factors that guided or constrained their thinking. The book encompasses the management theories and practices of the great thinkers, making it a well-considered and important historical work. As the American century draws to a close, and after a decade of popularity for process reengineering and globalization, the author revisits the roots of American management ideas by exploring the concepts of a group of "capitalist philosophers" who talked about "people" rather than "technology"—13 management masters such as Sloan, Maslow, McNamara, Drucker, Barnard, and others. Through a calm lens of history, the author analyzes the popular new ideas that American managers hear and see almost every day. For managers, this book is absolutely a masterpiece of management worth reading in detail.