18 books like The Practice of Management

What to read after The Practice of Management — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Managing for Results Peter F. Drucker · 1964 · ★ 4.2 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The effective business, Peter Drucker observes, focuses on opportunities rather than problems. How this focus is achieved in order to make the organization prosper and grow is the subject of this companion to his classic, The Practice of Management. The earlier book was chiefly concerned with how management functions; this volume shows what the executive decision-maker must do to move his… Shares Gestion d'entreprise, Management science, Organization and Administration, Decision making

Managing in Turbulent Times Peter F. Drucker · 1980 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate This important and timely book concerns the immediate future of business, society and the economy. We are, says Drucker, entering a new economic era with new trends, new markets, new currencies, new principles, new technologies and new institutions. How will managers and management deal with these new realities?This book, the author explains, "is concerned with action rather than understanding,… Shares Gestion d'entreprise, Organization and Administration, Gestion, Industrial management

Reframing Organizations Lee G. Bolman · 1991 · 544p · ≈ 18h · Moderate In this third edition of their best-selling classic, authors Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal explain the powerful tool of "reframing." The authors have distilled the organizational literature into a comprehensive approach for looking at situations from more than one angle. Their four frames view organizations as factories, families, jungles, and theaters or temples: The Structural Frame: how to… Shares Organization and Administration, Organizational behavior, Gestion, Management

Modern business administration Robert C. Appleby · 1969 · ★ 5.0 · 506p · ≈ 16h · Moderate [512]p. : 23cm Shares Gestion, Industrial management, Management, Business

Management Peter F. Drucker · 1973 · ★ 3.5 · 576p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, PracticesManagement is an organized body of knowledge. "This book," in Peter Drucker's words, "tries to equip the manager with the understanding, the thinking, the knowledge and the skills for today's and also tomorrow's jobs." This management classic has been developed and tested during more than thirty years of teaching management in universities, in… Shares Gestion, Management, Business, Nonfiction

Contemporary Logistics in China Bing-lian Liu · 2012 · 233p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Business and Management, Management science, Organizational behavior, Industrial management with this book.

Living on the Fault Line Geoffrey A. Moore · 2000 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The fault line is that dangerous, unstable seam in the economy where the Internet and other powerful innovations meet and create market-shattering tremors. Geoffrey A. Moore guides executives to the new models, metrics, and organizational practices necessary to meet the challenges of the 21st-century economy. Shares Gestion d'entreprise, Gestion, Industrial management, Management

Customer Relationship Management Francis Buttle · 2003 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares Gestion, Management, Business with this book.

Management John R. Schermerhorn · 1995 · 524p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Shares Gestion, Management, Business with this book.

The Challenger Sale

The Challenger Sale Matthew Dixon & Brent Adamson · 2011 · ★ 3.9 · 221p · ≈ 7h · Moderate What's the secret to sales success? If you're like most business leaders, you'd say it's fundamentally about relationships and you'd be wrong. The best salespeople don't just build relationships with customers. They challenge them. Shares Management science, Organizational behavior, Gestion, Industrial management

Effective Executive Peter F. Drucker · 1967 · ★ 4.1 · 161p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The measure of the executive, Peter Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that mold them into results. Shares Executives, Decision making, Industrial management, Management

Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management M. Ronald Buckley · 2014 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Management science, Organizational behavior, Industrial management, Management with this book.

Creative problem solving for managers Tony Proctor · 1999 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate This text provides an essential introduction to the ideas and skills of creative problem solving. It shows how and why people are blocked in their thinking, how this impairs the creative problem solving process, and how creative problem solving techniques can help overcome these difficulties. Theories of creative thinking are critically examined and used to justify the variety of techniques which… Shares Decision making, Management, Business, Nonfiction

The leadership challenge James M. Kouzes · 1987 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate When it was initially written in 1987, few could have predicted that The Leadership Challenge would become one of the best-selling leadership books of all time. Now, faced with the new challenges of our unpredictable global business environment, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner--two of the country's premier leadership experts--have completely revised and updated their classic book. Building on the… Shares Organization and Administration, Gestion, Management, Business

Up the organization Townsend, Robert · 1970 · ★ 4.1 · 211p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Although it was first published more than thirty-five years ago, Up the Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by groups as diverse as the American Management Association, Strategy + Business (Booz Allen Hamilton), and The Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management. 1-800-CEO-READ ranks Townsend's bestseller first among eighty books that "every manager must read."… Shares Organization and Administration, Management, Business, Nonfiction

A Guide to Modern Econometrics Marno Verbeek · 2000 · 520p · ≈ 17h · Moderate This revised and updated edition of A Guide to Modern Econometrics continues to explore a wide range of topics in modern econometrics by focusing on what is important for doing and understanding empirical work. It serves as a guide to alternative techniques with the emphasis on the intuition behind the approaches and their practical relevance.New material includes Monte Carlo studies, weak… Shares Business, Nonfiction

A Handbook of Primary Commodities in the Global Economy Marian Radetzki · 2008 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The world is going through an exceptional commodity boom triggered by a global demand shock largely caused by the sudden emergence of China and India as sizeable raw material importers. Prices of numerous commodities tripled between 2003 and 2006, resulting in huge windfalls for producers and a financial squeeze on consumers. A Handbook of Primary Commodities in the Global Economy is a guide to… Shares Business, Nonfiction

The Everything Guide to Starting and Running a Catering Business

The Everything Guide to Starting and Running a Catering Business Joyce Weinberg · 2009 The Everything Guide to Starting and Running a Catering Business is all you need to make your passion your profession! Do you enjoy cooking for others? Is your buffet table a work of art? Are your parties the best in the neighborhood? Then catering may be a great career for you!It's all here-from getting licenses and choosing the perfect name to developing menus and getting the word out. Seasoned… Shares Business, Nonfiction

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