World 500's 12 Classic Management Tools

Author: Yang Shikun (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Management starts with mastering tools. Tools determine productivity! 12 classic management tools, 12 popular management concepts, help you navigate complexity and move toward simplicity. With this book in hand, you can grasp the essence of modern management. Is management difficult? If you are also someone who still feels unfamiliar with management, after reading numerous management textbooks, you will likely conclude: management is too difficult! So many management books, one theory after another, one rule after another, leave you lost when it comes to managing and forming the impression that management is as hard as climbing the Blue Mountains. In fact, management is not difficult, and it can be very simple. Especially with efficient and practical management tools, management can become simpler and more effective. What is a tool? A tool is something that helps you achieve your goals. Tools can be concrete and tangible, or abstract and intangible. Most management tools are abstract and intangible, although for convenience of use, some have been materialized into software systems, tables, formulas, procedures, and specific methods or steps. Without tools, efficiency in doing things will be greatly reduced, or it will be very difficult to accomplish tasks. The ancients said, "Everything should be solved with the '' ( - blade), not with the '' ( - person)," where '' refers to tools, which is also what Confucius said: "A craftsman must first sharpen his tools before he can work well." Murphy's Law says, "Make things simple by making them complex; it is complex to make things simple." However, management tools can make management simpler. Efficient management tools are management ideas and models that strive to simplify, streamline, and enhance complex management. They advocate simplifying the complex and mastering the complex through simplicity. If managers and employees flexibly master management tools, their work will become easier, clearer, more organized, and more efficient, solving problems in a simple, direct, effective way. A CEO of a major company once said at the Harvard Management Forum, "In my decades of management practice, the greatest contribution has been those simple and clear management tools. These tools have always provided me with necessary help and inspiration when I faced difficulties. I thank these methods, and before going to sleep every day, I review these methods. Effective tools make management simpler." This book clearly organizes and explains the 12 commonly used management tools in Fortune 500 companies and their applications. Tools like the Delphi Method, McKinsey 7S Model, Porter's Five Forces Model, Boston Matrix, SWOT Analysis, Six Sigma Management, Benchmarking, Business Process Reengineering, and Balanced Scorecard, which emerged in different eras, have created immense wealth for society, with some even causing profound social changes. These classic management tools accurately grasp the laws of management, transforming advanced management concepts into actionable procedures and methods, allowing us to navigate complexity and move toward simplicity. Whether you are an ordinary employee or a business elite, flexibly mastering and applying these management tools has become a business quality, and it will undoubtedly greatly improve your management level and business performance.