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The classics: Books that Shaped Management Thinking

September 09, 2003
http://www.amanet.org/online_library/80yr/the_classics.pdf
The American Management Association reviews management books published since its foundation in 1923, which made an enduring mark on management thinking and truly represented breakthrough thinking.

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My Life and Work
Buy My Life and Work from Amazon  By Crowther, Samuel Amazon's customers rating

In Collaboration with Samuel Crowther

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 Ayer Co Pub
 March 1996 - Hardcover
 Business Leaders
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The Age of Unreason
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Named one of the ten best business books of 1990 by Business Week, The Age of Unreason is now available in paperback. Charles Handy maintains that in an era of random change, it is necessary to break...

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 Harvard Business School Press
 February 1991 - Paperback
 General Management
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Leaders : Strategies for Taking Charge
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In this illuminating study of corporate America's most critical issue -- leadership -- world-renowned leadership guru Warren Bennis and his co-author Burt Nanus reveal the four key principles every...

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 October 2003 - Paperback
 Leadership
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CHANGE MASTERS
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The Change Masters looks behind the scenes at some of the most important companies in America, including Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, Polaroid, General Motors, Wang Laboratories and Honeywell,...

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 Free Press
 March 1985 - Paperback
 Change Management
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Out of the Crisis
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"Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are...

Ranking at Amazon 38563
 MIT Press
 August 2000 - Paperback
 Quality & Six Sigma
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The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business
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This provocative book by a Japanese executive shows that the keys to business success in the West are the proven techniques of the Far East successful strategic planning and its conservative...

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 McGraw Hill
 August 1991 - Paperback
 Business in Japan
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The Third Wave
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Array

Ranking at Amazon 12201
 Bantam Books
 May 1984 - Mass Market Pap
 Trends and Future
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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, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business...

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 Free Press
 June 1998 - Hardcover
 Competition
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In Search of Excellence
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An American business management "bible" since 1982, In Search of Excellence presents eight specific management principles common to successful companies.

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 Warner Books
 August 1988 - Paperback
 Corporate Strategy
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The Fifth Discipline
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Finally in paperback, Senge's national bestseller The Fifth Discipline, which has turned the principles of the learning organization into a movement of snowballing size and strength. The ability to...

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 Currency
 October 1994 - Paperback
 Organizational Learning
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The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning: Reconceiving Roles for Planning, Plans, Planners
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In this definitive and revealing history, Henry Mintzberg, the iconoclastic former president of the Strategic Management Society, unmasks the press that has mesmerized so many organizations since...

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 Free Press
 January 1994 - Hardcover
 Planning
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Double-Digit Growth: How Great Companies Achieve It-No Matter What
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The bestselling author of The Discipline of Market Leaders reveals how companies can achieve sustained growth. In their 1995 blockbuster The Discipline of Market Leaders, Michael...

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 Portfolio
 August 2003 - Hardcover
 Business Growth
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How to Grow When Markets Don't
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From two vanguards of global strategy consulting comes this eye-opening look at the business dilemma of unsustainable growth--along with insights on what companies can do to stimulate consistent...

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 Warner Books
 April 2003 - Hardcover
 Business Growth
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Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value
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Text makes the case that we need new leaders, not just new laws, to bring us out of the current corporate crisis. Provides a tested guide for character-based leaders and all those who have a stake in...

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 Jossey-Bass
 August 2003 - Hardcover
 Leadership
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Leadership
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Rudolph Giuliani demonstrates how the leadership skills he practices can be employed successfully by anyone who has to run anything. Opens with a gripping account of Giuliani's immediate reaction to...

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 Miramax
 October 2002 - Hardcover
 Leadership
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Partnering: The New Face of Leadership
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The future of business growth is in the partnerships that companies and their executives form. Partnering explains how critical it is for business leaders to "partner" effectively, and features

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 AMACOM - American Management Association
 November 2002 - Hardcover
 Leadership
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
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The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into

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 Leadership
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Competing for the Future
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Hamel and Prahalad offer a masterful blueprint for what a company must be doing today if it is to occupy the competitive high ground of tomorrow. By showing that the key to future industry leadership...

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 Harvard Business School Press
 April 1996 - Paperback
 Competition
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Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution
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A guide to remaking a company's processes, organization structure, and management systems through reengineering shows companies how to make money in the 1990s by improving speed, productivity, ...

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 HarperCollins
 May 1993 - Hardcover
 Process Management Improvement
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Leadership
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One of America's leading historians on the role of leadership in American history.

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 HarperCollins
 August 1978 - Hardcover
 Leadership
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