Management 21C: Someday We'll All Manage This Way - Hardcover

Chowdhury, Subir

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0273639633 ISBN 13: 9780273639633

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 1999

Synopsis

 "Excellent! Chowdhury has gathered together under one roof, so to speak, a remarkable group of thinkers who give us their best bets on how our organizational futures will look. I found it enlightening and useful." – Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, Univ. of Southern California, Co-author of Organizing Genius and Co-Leaders "If you read only one management book this year, make it Management 21C. A provocative future-oriented book that offers a dramatic and convincing view of what leaders and organizations will need to be successful in the 21st century." – John A. Quelch, Dean, London Business School  "You only have to take a look at the list of contributors to know the kind of book you're going to be reading. It's extremely stimulating and is fabulous at guiding the reader through the minefield of management." - Anita Roddick O.B.E., Founder, The Body Shop  "Remarkable thought leaders have produced a remarkable guide for the leader in the new century." – Frances Hesselbein, Chairman of the Board of Governors, Peter Drucker Foundation  "Subir Chowdhury has collected a ‘who’s who’ of thinkers and writers about leadership. In addition to his own thought provoking chapter ‘Towards the Future of Management’, the book opens a window of the challenges for leadership in the new millennium. The contributors present their ideas and positions on the requirements for the next century – that beginning the second thousand years since Christ’s birth."  "The book has the fascination of a good novel – plus the exposure to many of our best ‘futurists’. I recommend it to organization leaders, consultants and academicians who are working on this critical issue for all of us." – Richard Beckhard, Principal, Richard Beckhard Associates, Emeritus Professor, Sloan School of Management, MIT  "Each Chapter will kick start the brain to deal with the 21st century. A very thoughtful collection." – Philip B. Crosby, Author, Quality and Me: Lessons from an Evolving Life  

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Review

The only thing we can say with any certainty about management in 20 years time is that it will be substantially different from today. The question is, of course, how will it be different? And how can we gain competitive edge by adopting the right new techniques before every one else does? Well, you could do a lot worse than ask the world's top management thinkers and futurologists for their views. Which is exactly what Subir Chowdhury, an executive vice president at the American Supplier Institute, has done in Management 21C.

The book is a collection of essays and speculations by the likes of Peter Senge, Sumantra Ghoshal, Barry Posner and 23 more management heavyweights on the future of business, leadership, business process and organisation. The breadth and diversity of the speculations makes them almost impossible to summarise. But if there is one recurring theme it is that management is undergoing a shift from a masculine to a feminine paradigm. If during the bulk of the 20th century, management was about manly things such as certainty, predictability, competition, domination, and winning, in the 21st century it will be concerned with more traditionally feminine traits such as uncertainty, ambivalence, change, collaboration, paradoxes, co-operation--and winning.

In his own provocative essay, Chowdury describes how new managers will have to become multi-skilled people-centred leaders whose most important task is to inspire the work force with emotion and belief. He argues that in the next century corporate success will depend on the effective use of talent: "The relentless pursuit of talent should be a main management strategy. More and more companies simply cannot recruit talent fast enough." The "return on talent", which he defines as, "the payback on investment in people" will become a key business measure just like return on capital, he says. Senior managers will ignore this thought-provoking collection of essays at their peril. --Alex Benady

Review

"Management 21C is a striking compilation of trend-readings and extrapolations.
Far from being depressing, it's a lively invitation to turn the calendar page and get going." Management General

Edition details

• Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0273639633
• ISBN 13: 9780273639633
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 304