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Ideas incubator: ten business classics

December 12, 1999
Business classics chosen by Carol Kennedy, author of 12502>Guide to the Management Gurus, published in Ideas that changed the century, in Director magazine (december 1999). The list includes 10 books + 4 light relief

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The Principles of Scientific Management
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The basis of modern organization and decision theory, this influential essay has motivated administrators and students of managerial technique for more than 80 years. The author discusses eliminating...

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 Dover Pubns
 December - Paperback
 General Management
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The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization
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In this volume Mayo discusses the Hawthorne experiments, relating the findings about human relations within the Hawthorne plant to the social environment in the surrounding Chicago area.



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 Routledge
 December - Hardcover
 Human Resources
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The Practice of Management
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This classic is the first book to define management as a practice and a discipline, thus establishing Drucker as the founder of the discipline of modern management. Management has been practiced for...

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 General Management
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The Human Side of Enterprise: 25th Anniversary Printing
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 McGraw Hill
 December - Hardcover
 Organization
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The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society
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Peter Drucker focuses with great clarity and perception on the forces of change that are transforming the economic landscape and creating tomorrow’s society. He discerns four major areas of...

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 Transaction Pub
 December - Paperback
 Change Management
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Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
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Now nearing its 60th printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world....

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 December - Hardcover
 Competition
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In Search of Excellence
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The "Greatest Business Book of All Time" (Bloomsbury UK), In Search of Excellence has long been a must-have for the boardroom, business school, and bedside table. Based on a study of...

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 Corporate Strategy
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Out of the Crisis
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According to Deming, whose management theories were particularly influential in Japan, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations...

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 Quality & Six Sigma
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Mintzberg on Management: Inside Our Strange World of Organizations
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Henry Mintzberg revolutionized our understanding of what managers do in The Nature of Managerial Work, his landmark book. Now in this comprehensive new volume, Mintzberg broadens his vision...

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 December - Hardcover
 General Management
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Competing for the Future
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Hamel and Prahalad (coauthors of Harvard Business Review) develop judicious, provocative managerial theses in this sophisticated work. Rejecting recent downsizing and reengineering trends, they...

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 Competition
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Parkinson's Law
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 Time Management
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The Peter Principle
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This bestselling business classic of more than twenty-five years' duration is a dead-on account of why boredom, bungling, and bad management are built into every organization. Through hilarious case...

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 Business Humor
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The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions
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You loved the comic strip; now read the business advice.

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 Business Humor
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Built to Last : Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
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What makes a visionary company? This book, written by a team from Stanford's Graduate School of Business, compares what the authors have identified as "visionary" companies with selected companies in...

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 December - Hardcover
 Trends and Future
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