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The Management Century Stuart Crainer 
 Format: Hardcover, 224pp. ISBN: 9780787952242 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: February 2000 Average Customer Review: 
For Bulk Orders Call: 626-441-2024  Description and Reviews From The Publisher: The Management Century is a sweeping presentation of the most significant developments in management over the past one hundred years. Chronologically organized, the book provides powerful and useful insights into significant ideas and movements in management and the people and companies behind them. "Management has been practiced since the very dawn of civilization. But only during the last one hundred years has it been recognized, analyzed, monitored, taught and formalized," veteran journalist Stuart Crainer writes in The Management Century, his fascinating, lively tour of the theory and practice of management. Over the past one hundred years, Crainer says, the art of management has been reinvented time and time again. In The Management Century, we get to live through each innovation and understand how it fits with the past—and the future. Crainer shows us that a careful study of the history of management holds vital clues to its future. There are lessons to be learned from early giants such as Henri Fayol, originator of the fourteen general principles of man-agement, and from more contemporary figures such as W. Edwards Deming, the American whose concept of Total Quality Management revolutionized the Japanese auto industry. Decade after decade, Crainer points out, each new trend in management thinking has been shaped by the successes—and shortcomings—of the concepts that preceded it. The Management Century gives vibrant life to this chronology and pres-ents a rich cast of historic characters any novelist would envy. Including both thinkers and doers, the management innovators Crainer introduces throughout his book are as intriguing as the innovations they championed. These are individuals who, despite personal flaws—sometimes reflecting the biases of their times—made undeniable contributions to corporate and social betterment. As a new millennium opens, The Management Century offers an in-dispensable read to any student of business and management—those still in school and those who view their entire lives as a learning experience. Readers will gain a deeper appreciation for human ingenuity in dealing with the challenges of large organizations. They will realize that the demand for such ingenuity never changes. As Crainer tells us, in management there are no final answers, just enduring questions. About the Author Stuart Crainer is a business journalist whose work has appeared in the Financial Times, The Economist, Management Today, Strategy & Business, and other business publications internationally. He is the co-author of Gravy Training, Key Management Ideas, Twenty-First Century Management, The Tom Peters Phenomenon, The Ultimate Book of Business Gurus and others. He lives near Oxford, England. Table of Contents
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