Mastering Management 2.0

You know the mantra — the world isn't standing still and nor are the ideas, skills and knowledge you need as a manager — but, what are you doing about it?

The first tenet of management should be "never stop learning", but the sheer abundance of new management ideas and the complexity of modern business makes it hard to amass the breadth of knowledge you need to advance your career.

Mastering Management 2.0 is the antidote; a new set of perspectives from the best management brains from around the world.

• Introduction: James Pickford

1. The state of management today
• Introduction to Part 1
• Thriving on the chaos of the future
  Daniel Muzyka
• The new battlegrounds for capitalism
  Ben Hunt
• managers face up to the new era
  Leonard Greenhalgh
2. Enterprise and innovation
• Introduction to Part 2
• Be prepared for when opportunity knocks
  Daniel Muzyka
• Getting to "Yes" with the business plan
  Joe Tablet and Albert Angehrn
• in search of capital for the young business
  Benoît Leleux
• An insider guide to going public
  Michael Horvath
• Don't hesitate to innovate
  George Day and Paul Shoemaker
• Corporate ventures: maximizing gains
  Ian MacMillan and Rita McGrath
3. Strategy
• Introduction to Part 3
• Competitive strategy to lure the investor
  Richard Whittington
• The structures behind global companies
  Julian Birkinshaw
• Strategy must lie at the heart of alliances
  Benjamin Gomes-Casseres
• Bringing some discipline to M&A mania
  Phanish Pranam, Harbir Singh and Maurizio Zollo
• The future looks fair for electronic exchanges
  Eric Clemons
• Behavior is key to web retailing strategy
  Eric Clemons and Michal Row
• The challenge of the web-enabled business
  Peter Brews
• IT strategy in the new economy
  Michael Earl
• Success flows from business development
  Donald Sull
• Demergers: breaking up is hard to do
  Nancy Hubbard
4. Global business
• Introduction to Part 4
• The illusion of the global company
  Alan Rugman
• Cultural answers to global dilemmas
  Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner
• Culture is of the essence in Asia
  Leo Dana
• Chinese entrepreneurs move into the new economy
  Pedro Nueno
• Developing strategy for a not-so-global village
  Philip Parker
5. Business and society
• Introduction to Part 5
• Adding corporate ethics to the bottom line
  Thomas Donaldson
• Legal problems showing a way to do business
  Constance Bagley
• Developing the rules for corporate governance
  Colin Mayer
• The family business and its governance
  Adrian Cadbury
• The value to be found in corporate reputation
  Charles Fombrun
• Risk rule grows to enterprise scale
  Gerry Dickinson
• Environmental disaster: not all bad news
  Geoffrey Heal
• IT comes to the aid of environmental managers
  Dennis Rondinelli
• Venture philanthropy
  Rachel Croson
6. The organization and human resources
• Introduction to Part 6
• Business moves beyond bureaucracy
  Jonas Ridderstråle
• Change: success is all in the detail
  Joel Brockner
• Making sharing good for all
  Angel Cabrera
• Turning knowledge into business advantage
  Susan Jackson and Randall Schuler
• Recruitment makes the most of the digital era
  Peter Capelli and Monika Hamori
• The Anchors that dictate our careers
  Edgar Schein
• Careers, work, and life: ways of finding a better balance
  Cary Cooper
• Managing to take the stress out of pressure
  Lyn van Oudtshoorn
• New face in the top team: how to ensure a good fit
  Andrew Kakabadse
• Mentoring and coaching at the top
  David Clutterbuck
• Beyond Sloan: trust is at the core of corporate values
  Manfred Kets de Vries
• Building companies founded on people
  Lynda Gratton
7. Skills of management
• Introduction to Part 7
• Interests, value, and the art of the best deal
  James Sebenius and David Lax
• Putting the team into top management
  Donald Hambrick
• How to say the right thing in the right way
  Gerry Griffin
• How to groom the leaders of the future
  Michael Useem
• The key to clear writing is in the introduction
  Barbara Minto
8. Marketing
• Introduction to Part 8
• The essence of building an effective brand
  Kamran Kashani
• Turn your customers into advocates
  Barbara Kahn
• Segmentation: making sure the customer fits
  Venkatesh Shankar
• Integration as the way ahead for marketing
  Mark Ritson
• The brave new world of pricing
  Garrett van Ryzin
• Marketers seeking sense in sensibility
  Berndt Schmitt
• Retailing wakes up late to global ambitions
  Jonathan Reynolds
• The drivers that make sales teams tick
  Andris Zoltners
• The new language of emerging markets
  Nirij Dawar and Amitava Chattopahdyay
9. Finance and accounting
• Introduction to Part 9
• How to read those annual reports
  Peter Knutson
• Value metrics: use with care
  Chris Higson
• A bigger yardstick for company performance
  Christopher Ittner and David Larcker
• Costs count in the strategic agenda
  Anthony Hopwood
• The secrets hidden in market prices
  Lisa Meulbroek
• Untangling the values of web companies
  Sunil Gupta and Donald Lehmann
• Economic value added: the missing link
  David Young
• Paying executives in shareholders' interests
  Rajesh Aggarwal
• Integrating finance systems at Microsoft
  Brent Callinicos and Jeanne Mendez
10. Production and operations
• Introduction to Part 10
• All changes in the second supply chain revolution
  Morris Cohen and Vipul Agrawal
• Look to the process for a better product
  Roy Westbrook
• The way forward for operations strategy
  David Pyke
• Enterprise systems: not an easy fit
  Lynne Markus
• R&D structures to keep the focus on products
  Rajesh Nellore
• Measures of success for R&D teams
  Christoph Loch and Staffan Tapper
• The essence of service lies in focus
  Rogelio Oliva

A very good and comprehensive mini-MBA.