Managing with the Gurus

Carol Kennedy, bestselling author of Guide to the Management Gurus, takes the concept one step further in this book, which provides instant access to the most influential management thinking of today.

Each chapter deals with one of 20 key managerial functions, from business re-engineering to team building, competitive strategy to quality control. A selection of excerpts from the most important books on the topics is preceeded by a brief introduction to the development of key ideas in the field. The book also includes a "Guru's Who's Who" which gives their dates, details of academic posts and a list of their best-known books with dates of publication and publishers.

Management gurus whose work is highlighted include: Charles Handy, Tom Peters, Peter Senge, Sir John Harvey-Jones, Peter Drucker, Michael Porter, Rosabeh Moss Kanter, Richard Pascale, Henry Mintzberg, Kenichi Ohmae and many others

This is a book for working managers, business students and anyone who needs a quick grasp of the rapid ways in which organizations and management practices are changing and evolving in the 1990s.

• Preface
• Who's Who Amongst the Gurus

1. The Changing Organization
2. The Craft of Management
3. Managing Change
4. Managing People
5. Managing Knowledge
6. Motivation
7. Leadership
8. Strategy and Strategic Thinking
9. Decision-making
10. Managing Time
11. Corporate Mission and Culture
12. Corporate Performance
13. Marketing
14. Competitive Advantage
15. Managing Quality
16. Customer Care
17. Managing Information
18. Global Management
19. Re-engineering
20. Reading the Future

Carol is a splendid author that in a short space can condense views that otherwise would have taken hours to understand.