The Ultimate Business Library (Ultimates), 1st Edition

Cover......Page 1
Preliminaries......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 12
Preface......Page 24
About the Authors......Page 26
Acknowledgements......Page 28
Introduction......Page 30
Fifty Books Which Made Management......Page 38
1.  Igor Ansoff Corporate Strategy (1965)......Page 42
2. Chris Argyris & Donald Schon Organizational Learning. A Theory of Action Perspective (1978)......Page 48
3. Chester Barnard The Functions of the Executive (1938)......Page 54
4. Christopher Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal Managing Across Borders (1989)......Page 58
5. Meredith Belbin Management Teams: Why they succeed or fail (1984)......Page 64
6. Warren Bennis & Burt Nanus Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge (1985)......Page 70
7. James MacGregor Burns Leadership (1978)......Page 76
8. Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People (1937)......Page 82
9. James Champy & Michael Hammer Reengineering the Corporation (1993)......Page 86
10. Alfred Chandler Strategy and Structure (1962)......Page 92
11. W. Edwards Deming Out of the Crisis (1982)......Page 98
12. Peter F. Drucker The Practice of Management (1954)......Page 104
13. Peter F. Drucker The Age of Discontinuity (1969)......Page 112
14. Henri Fayol General and Industrial Management (1949)......Page 116
15. Mary Parker Follett Dynamic Administration (1941)......Page 122
16. Henry Ford My Life and Work (1923)......Page 128
17. Michael Goold, Andrew Campbell & Marcus Alexander Corporate-Level Strategy (1994)......Page 134
18. Gary Hamel & C.K. Prahalad Competing for the Future (1994)......Page 140
19. Charles Handy The Age of Unreason (1989)......Page 146
20. Frederick Herzberg The Motivation to Work (1959)......Page 152
21. Joseph M. Juran Juran on Planning for Quality (1988)......Page 156
22. Rosabeth Moss Kanter The Change Masters (1983)......Page 162
23. Philip Kotler Marketing Management:. Analysis, Planning, Implementation and Control (1967)......Page 166
24. Ted Levitt Innovation in Marketing (1962)......Page 172
25. Nicolo Machiavelli The Prince (1513)......Page 178
26. Douglas McGregor The Human Side of Enterprise (1960)......Page 182
27. Abraham Maslow Motivation and Personality (1954)......Page 188
28. Henry Mintzberg The Nature of Managerial Work (1973)......Page 192
29. Henry Mintzberg The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning (1994)......Page 196
30. Kenichi Ohmae The Mind of the Strategist (1982)......Page 202
31. Kenichi Ohmae The Borderless World (1990)......Page 208
32. C.N. Parkinson Parkinson’s Law (1958)......Page 212
33. Richard Pascale & Anthony Athos The Art of Japanese Management (1981)......Page 216
34. Richard Pascale Managing on the Edge (1990)......Page 222
35. Tom Peters & Robert Waterman In Search of Excellence (1982)......Page 228
36. Tom Peters Liberation Management (1992)......Page 236
37. Michael Porter Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors (1980)......Page 242
38. Michael Porter The Competitive Advantage of Nations (1990)......Page 248
39. Edgar H. Schein Organizational Culture and Leadership (1985)......Page 254
40. Ricardo Semler Maverick! (1993)......Page 260
41. Peter Senge The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990)......Page 264
42. Alfred P. Sloan My Years with General Motors (1963)......Page 270
43. Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations (1776)......Page 278
44. Frederick W. Taylor The Principles of Scientific Management (1911)......Page 284
45. Alvin Toffler The Third Wave (1980)......Page 290
46. Robert Townsend Up the Organization (1970)......Page 296
47. Fons Trompenaars Riding the Waves of Culture (1993)......Page 300
48. Sun Tzu The Art of War (500 BC)......Page 306
49. Thomas Watson Jr. A Business and its Beliefs: The Ideas that Helped Build IBM (1963)......Page 310
50. Max Weber The Theory of Social and Economic Organization (1947)......Page 316
Appendix......Page 320
Bibliography......Page 338
Index......Page 348