Great Masters Discussing Great Masters: Handy's Interpretation of 13 Management Masters

Author: (Eng) Charles Handy
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Peter Drucker, Bill Gates, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Tom Peters, Warren Bennis—each a shining star. Who can interpret their views and achievements one by one? Charles Handy, with his insightful understanding of management, as well as his expertise in economics and philosophy, offers profound observations and critiques of these management gurus through a series of incisive articles in Gurus on Gurus. This book was written for a BBC program, aiming to introduce global managers and management students to the various ideas shaping the current leadership trends in management. To help readers gain a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of each guru's background and ideas, we have added short biographies and representative works. All the gurus' works discussed in this book are worth reading in detail. Readers can extract the essence from the theories of these gurus, achieving a state of integration that synthesizes the strengths of various schools of thought.