18 books like The Practice of Management

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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 · ★ 4.0 · 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

Contemporary Logistics in China Bing-lian Liu · 2012 · 233p · ≈ 7h · Moderate While logistics has caught on as a vital component in China’s national development plan, both government agencies at all levels and various types of enterprises have put considerable effort into propelling logistics to a new height.  Recent logistics developments in China have witnessed a scene of significant boom dotted with few sporadic dips. This book, the third volume in the series on… Shares: Business and Management, Management science, Organizational behavior, 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

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

Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management M. Ronald Buckley · 2014 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate This book contains an Open Access chapter.Volume 41 of Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management offers several original scholarly contributions written by thought leaders in the field of human resources management. These chapters feature the latest research exploring emerging novel areas of HRM.Contributions include an analysis of professional touching behaviour, ideas about the state… Shares: Management science, Organizational behavior, Industrial management, Management

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

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

Customer Relationship Management Francis Buttle · 2003 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate This definitive textbook explains what CRM is, the benefits it delivers, the contexts in which it is used, how it can be implemented and how CRM technologies can be deployed to support customer management strategies and objectives. It also looks comprehensively at how CRM can be used throughout the customer life-cycle stages of customer acquisition, retention and development and how the… Shares: Gestion, Management, Business

Management John R. Schermerhorn · 1995 · 524p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Facts101 is your complete guide to Study Resource for Exploring Management. In this book, you will learn topics such as Ethics and Social Responsibility: Character doesnt stay home when we ..., Managers as Decision Makers: There is no substitute for a good decisio ..., Plans and Planning Techniques: Get there faster with objectives., and Controls and Control Systems: What gets measured happens.… Shares: Gestion, Management, Business

Management Peter F. Drucker · 1973 · ★ 3.6 · 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

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

Thriving on chaos Thomas J. Peters · 1987 · ★ 4.0 · 561p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Forty-five prescriptions specify what managers at every level must do if the organizations they lead are to survive in today's chaotic economic environment. Shares: Gestion d'entreprise, Industrial management, Management, United States

Who Is Michael Ovitz? Michael Ovitz · 2018 · ★ 4.5 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "Michael Ovitz co-founded CAA in 1975 and served as its chairman until 1995. For most of the past two decades he has been a private investor and an advisor to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. This is his first book"-- Shares: Executives, 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

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

Business Ricky W. Griffin · 1989 · ★ 3.7 · 736p · ≈ 24h · Moderate Business is the practice of making ones living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for profit." Shares: Industrial management, Management, Business

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