Management Classics - (Seventh Edition)

Author: Jon L. Pierces
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: This book compiles the essence of 48 best-selling management books in the United States, presenting the latest trends and innovative ideas in the field of management from diverse perspectives and in various ways. These best-selling management books include The Tipping Point, The Fish!, The One-Minute Manager, Who Moved My Cheese?, and more. These bestsellers convey new management theories, such as intrinsic motivation theory, collaboration, and team management theory, to people in vivid language. These theories hold significant importance in modern organizational management. Each chapter of this book includes several reading materials, each of which is a summary or introduction by a renowned scholar on a best-selling management book. By reading this book, readers can quickly understand the content of current popular management theories and best-selling management books.
The purpose of editing this Compendium of Management Classics is to meet the needs of managers and management students. A considerable portion of them lacks sufficient time to read extensively but often finds themselves involved in discussions about concepts such as vision, self-directed teams, ethics, flow, or emotional intelligence. We believe that whether managers or management students, they all hope to keep their understanding of organizational concepts and management practices up to date. To help readers fully equip themselves, this book introduces more than 40 popular management works—both recent publications and classic literature.
As a concise read, this book does not convey the views of a single individual on organizational management nor attempts to integrate the theories and ideas of dozens of authors. Instead, it compiles management thoughts from various sources, allowing you to grasp the multifaceted aspects of organizational management from diverse perspectives. Some of the authors whose names are household words among readers include the highly respected James Collins, Edward E. Lawler III, Chris Argyris, Stephen Covey, Clayton Christensen, Spencer Johnson, and Peter Senge. This book introduces the management ideas, theories, viewpoints, and experiences of numerous authors whose works are widely recognized and trusted in today's management field.