Management
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The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge |
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dispatched in 24 hours Random House Business Books Paperback - 424 pages ( 6 May, 1993) Random House Business Books |
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| Amazon.co.uk Peter Senge, founder of the Centre for Organisational Learning at MIT's Sloan School of Management, experienced an epiphany while meditating one morning back in the fall of 1987. That was the day he first saw the possibilities of a "learning organisation" that used "systems thinking" as the primary... Read more |
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The Dance of Change by Peter Senge, et al |
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dispatched in 24 hours Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd Paperback - 606 pages (March 1999) Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd |
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| Amazon.co.uk In a constantly changing world, businesses need to be constantly changing to keep up. The trouble is, as anybody with even a limited experience of business knows, the majority of change programmes fail. Reengineering, Total Quality Management, Empowerment, all tend to peter out unfinished in most... Read more |
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Understanding
Organisations by Charles B. Handy |
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dispatched in 24 hours Penguin Books Paperback - 448 pages (November 1992) Penguin Books |
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| Synopsis This version of "Understanding Organisations" covers the same topics as the original text but with updated information. Read more |
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Leading Change by John P. Kotter |
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dispatched in 24 hours Harvard Business School Press Hardcover - 187 pages (September 1996) Harvard Business School Press |
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| Synopsis This work provides advice for those confronting the challenge of leading organizational change. It examines the efforts of over 100 companies to improve their competitiveness. The most common mistakes made in attempting to create change are identified, and a process outlined to overcome obstacles. Read more |
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The Fifth Discipline
Fieldbook by Peter Senge, et al |
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dispatched in 24 hours Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd Paperback - 608 pages (14 July, 1994) Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd |
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| Synopsis "The Fifth Discipline" revolutionized the practice of management by introducing the theory of learning organizations. Now, Dr Senge moves from the philosophical to the practical by answering the first question all lovers of the learning organization ask - what do they do on Monday morning? This book... Read more |
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| 6. | Riding the Waves of
Culture by Fons Trompenaars, Charles Hampden Turner |
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dispatched in 24 hours Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd Paperback - 275 pages (September 1997) Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd |
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| Synopsis Many managers understand that cultural differences affect the process of doing business, but many underestimate by just how much. This book aims to dispel the idea that there is only one way to manager and encourages readers to get to know their own culture before doing business with others. The... Read more |
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| 7. | Management and
Organisational Behaviour by Laurie Mullins |
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dispatched in 24 hours Financial Times Prentice Hall Paperback - 928 pages (31 December, 1998) Financial Times Prentice Hall |
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| Synopsis This edition focuses upon the interactions among the structure and operations of organizations, the process of management and the behaviour of people at work. It also discusses the need for organizational effectiveness and the role of management as an integrating activity. Read more |
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| 8. | The Empty Raincoat by Charles Handy |
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dispatched in 24 hours Arrow Paperback - 105 pages ( 3 August, 1995) Arrow |
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| Synopsis Following on from "The Age of Unreason", Charles Handy puts forward some radical arguments in this book for the future not only of organizations, but for the individuals who work in them. Read more |
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| 9. | Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken, et al |
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dispatched in 24 hours Earthscan Hardcover - 416 pages (28 June, 1999) Earthscan |
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| Amazon.co.uk In Natural Capitalism, three top strategists show how leading-edge companies are practising "a new type of industrialism" that is more efficient and profitable while saving the environment and creating jobs. Paul Hawken and Amory and Hunter Lovins write that in the next century cars will get 200... Read more |
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| 10. | 30 Minutes to Write
a Business Plan by Brian Finch |
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dispatched in 24 hours Kogan Page Paperback - 64 pages (May 1997) Kogan Page |
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| Synopsis Part of a series of pocket guides aimed at enabling the reader to learn a new skill in just 30 minutes, this text is full of tips on business plans, from layout and content to style and presentation. Read more |
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| 11. | NLP Solutions by Sue Knight |
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dispatched in 24 hours Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd Paperback - 256 pages ( 4 April, 1999) Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd |
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| Amazon.co.uk Leading on from her previous two books on the subject of Neuro Linguistic Programming, Introducing NLP and NLP At Work, Sue Knight demonstrates how to model successful NLP solutions in business. Modelling, she says, is simply: "the process of observing, analysing and reproducing the structure of... Read more |
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| 12. | The One-minute
Manager Builds High Performing Teams by Kenneth Blanchard, et al |
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dispatched in 24 hours HarperCollins Paperback - 128 pages (27 April, 1993) HarperCollins |
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| Synopsis With 50 to 90% of most managers' time spent in some form of group activity, the concept of teamwork is more important than ever before. The advice in this book is designed to increase any working groups' productivity and satisfaction. The book explains how all groups move through four stages of... Read more |
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| 13. | Images of
Organization by Gareth Morgan |
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dispatched in 24 hours Sage Publications Inc (USA) Paperback - 360 pages (31 August, 1998) Sage Publications Inc (USA) |
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| Synopsis This new edition has been abridged and revised to increase its accessibility and usefulness to today's managers. It offers a concrete method for integrating the strengths and overcoming the weaknesses of competing management perspectives and has influenced management thinking throughout the world. Read more |
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| 14. | Organizational
Behaviour : An Introductory Text by Andrzej Huczynski, David Buchanan |
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dispatched in 24 hours Prentice Hall Europe (Academic) Paperback - 620 pages (April 1997) Prentice Hall Europe (Academic) |
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| Synopsis This study introduces readers to the fundamental behaviour and cultural issues essential to the success of any enterprise. This edition contains an entirely new section on organizational change and development, and extensive coverage on organizational power and politics, scientific management and... Read more |
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| 15. | The Knowing-doing
Gap by Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert Sutton |
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Harvard Business School Press Hardcover - 329 pages (30 November, 1999) Harvard Business School Press |
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| Amazon.co.uk Last year in the US 1,700 books were published on business and management, 80,000 students enrolled for MBA courses, corporations spent an estimated US$43 billion on management consultancy and a further US$60 billion went on management training. It is quite clear that there is no shortage of... Read more |
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| 16. | Serious Play by Michael Schrage, Tom Peters |
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dispatched in 24 hours Harvard Business School Press Paperback - 288 pages (18 November, 1999) Harvard Business School Press |
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| Amazon.co.uk Forget the old saying, all work and no play. World-class companies today need play--serious play--if they want to make truly innovative products, argues Michael Schrage, an MIT Media Lab fellow and Fortune magazine columnist. In Serious Play he writes, "When talented innovators innovate, you don't... Read more |
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| 17. | John P. Kotter on
What Leaders Really Do (Harvard Business Review Book) by John P. Kotter |
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dispatched in 24 hours Harvard Business School Press Hardcover - 184 pages (April 1999) Harvard Business School Press |
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| Amazon.co.uk "After conducting fourteen formal studies and more than a thousand interviews, directly observing dozens of executives in action, and compiling innumerable surveys, I am completely convinced that most organisations today lack the leadership they need," contends John P. Kotter, the Konosuke... Read more |
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| 18. | The New
Organizational Wealth : Managing & Measuring Knowledge-Based Assets by Karl Erik Sveiby |
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dispatched in 24 hours Berrett-Koehler Publisher's Hardcover - 275 pages (April 1997) Berrett-Koehler Publisher's |
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| Synopsis This study shows how some of the fastest-growing, most profitable companies are discovering that potentially limitless revenues can flow from their firm's intangible assets - the ability of employees, customers, and even suppliers to create new concepts, models, products and services. Read more |
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| 19. | Time to Think by Nancy Kline |
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dispatched in 24 hours Ward Lock Paperback - 256 pages (30 January, 1999) Ward Lock |
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| Synopsis The power of effective listening is recognized as the essential tool of good management. Showing that a thinking environment can have a powerful impact on the working life, this book seeks to illustrate how hostility and entrenched views can be removed and innovative ideas put into practice. Read more |
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| 20. | Cultures and
Organizations: Software of the Mind by Geert Hofstede |
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dispatched in 24 hours HarperCollins Paperback - 304 pages (23 May, 1993) HarperCollins |
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| Synopsis Despite calls for better co-operation between countries and different cultures, there is still confrontation between people, groups and nations. But at the same time they are exposed to common problems which demand co-operation for the solution of these problems. This book helps to understand the... Read more |
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| 21. | Goldratt's Theory of
Constraints : A Systems Approach to Continuous Improvement by William H. Dettmer |
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dispatched in 1-2 weeks ASQC Quality Press Hardcover - 378 pages (September 1996) ASQC Quality Press |
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England , 23 February, 2000 Good Technical How-to, short on why and what to apply to Dont do what i did, read this book only after you've read Goldratt's 'The Goal' and 'It's not luck'. Now I've read them all, I can say this book is good on the mechanics of the 'Thinking Processes'. But it is a bit weak on Thruput/ Inventory/ Operating expense as a system measurement. It needs some...Read more |
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| 22. | Scenarios by Kees van der Heijden |
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dispatched in 24 hours John Wiley and Sons Hardcover - 320 pages (September 1996) John Wiley and Sons |
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| Book Description "Artful scenario spinning is a form of convergent thinking about divergent fututes. It ensures not that you are always right about the future but--better--that you are almost never wrong about the future."––Stewart Brand This groundbreaking book from University of Strathclyde professor... Read more |
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| 23. | Systems Thinking -
Managing Chaos and Complexity by Jamshid Gharajedaghi |
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dispatched in 24 hours Butterworth-Heinemann Paperback - 240 pages (15 June, 1999) Butterworth-Heinemann |
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| Synopsis Based on the "Systems Thinking" method of business management, this approach to systems methodology analyses structure, function and process in a holistic examination of real experiences in five real companies to give practical applicability to the theory of management of chaos and complexity. Read more |
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| 24. | Images of
Organization by Gareth Morgan |
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dispatched in 2-3 days Sage Publications Inc (USA) Paperback - 483 pages (March 1997) Sage Publications Inc (USA) |
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| Synopsis This new edition has been abridged and revised to increase its accessibility and usefulness to today's managers. It offers a concrete method for integrating the strengths and overcoming the weaknesses of competing management perspectives and has influenced management thinking throughout the world. ... Read more |
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| 25. | Adaptive Enterprise:
Creating and Leading Sense-and-respond Organizations by Stephan H. Haeckel, Adrian J. Slywotzky |
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Harvard Business School Press Paperback - 320 pages (September 1999) Harvard Business School Press |
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| Synopsis This text seeks to give readers a deeper understanding of what it means to transform organizational strategy from assumptions of the Industrial Age to the Information Age. It also explains the implications of sense-and-respond for organizations' strategy, structure and governance. Read more |
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