More than ever before, Management is perplexing and challenging.
The Financial Times Handbook of Management captures the state of this indispensible, inspiring, invigorating and essential art. The handbook is the essential management reference for the managers of today. It brings together the most ambitious, comprehensive and authoritative selection of ideas, practices and management thinking. It captures a world of management expertise and delivers it to your desktop in a single, definitive resource.
Contributors include:
Marcus Alexander on global advantage, Paul Argenti on the communication advantage, Warren Bennis on the new leadership, David W Birchall on what managers do, William Byham on succession planning, Richard D'Aveni on strategic supremacy, G Bruce Friesen on empowerment, Thomas Gad on brands with a future, Vijay Govindarajan & Anil K Gupta on managing internationally, H David Hennessey on emergent issues in global marketing, Shere Hite on power and influence, John Kay on strategy and control, W Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne on strategy in the knowledge economy, Jesper Kunde on corporate religion, Richard Lamming on supply chain management, Dr Peter Lorange on international joint ventures, Costas Markides on strategy, D Quinn Mills on empowerment, Narayany Naik on the roles of financial markets, Kjell Nordstrom & Jonas Ridderstrale on Funky Inc., Richard Scase on work beyond 2010, Paul Strebel on high speed strategy in large companies, Donald N Sull on the new economy as a values shift, Fons Trompenaars on globization strategies, Sandra Vandermerwe on capturing lifetime customer value, Romesh Vaitilingam on corporate restructuring, Watts Wacker on understanding brand potential, Randall White & Phil Hodgsonon leadership role models, Luigi Zingales on the value of being in control. There is also extensive coverage and analysis of the work of many major gurus such as Tom Peters, Gary Hamel and Charles Handy
With contributions from the likes of Kjell Nordstrom, Jonas Ridderstrale and Warren Bennis, it's no slip of a copywriter's pen that the
Financial Times Handbook of Management is subtitled "The State of the Art". Now an international bestseller in its second edition, the
Handbook is a heavyweight in every sense--a strategic business resource containing think pieces from a breathtaking array of modern management gurus; business minds from academic, consultancy and media backgrounds many of whose books are bestsellers in their own right.
Every aspect of modern business is covered from management and marketing to finance and distribution. Even at 800 pages it doesn't pretend to be definitive or exhaustive. "The boundaries are gone. The game has changed. The rule book is out of date," as Professor Gary Hamel notes in his foreword from the first edition. As a primer to 21st-century business techniques, though, it's required reading. In addition to contributions from the likes of Fons Trompenaars, Marcus Alexander, Paul Argenti and Sandra Vandermerwe there is also extensive coverage and analysis of the work of many major gurus such as Tom Peters, Gary Hamel and Charles Handy. The Financial Times Handbook of Management will provide managers and business commentators with a powerful set of actions, solutions and ideas. --Alex Benady
