This text delivers the most influential management initiatives to managers and students in a concise and practically implementable form. For each key initiative, the book outlines the essential content and background to the idea, the potential benefits and pitfalls, and best practice.
I recently sat for (and passed) my doctoral comprehensive exams in Management, and used this book to help me develop context, so that I didn't lose my way in the forest. So many thinkers, so many papers, and such grim prose. This book, along with Crainer's Ultimate Business Library: 75 Books that Made Management were indispensible in helping to form a review outline. They could also be useful for an MBA student trying to understand the epistemological history behind some of the concepts spouted by practitioners, such as "tipping-point" and "network-effect." He or she will learn, as I have, that the progenitors often didn't receive the credit he or she deserved.
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