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The ultimate business library : 75 books that made management.

By: Crainer, Stuart.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Oxford : Capstone, 1999Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xii, 280p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 1841120642(pbk.); 9781841120645.Subject(s): Management in literature | Management | Business and Management | Bibliographies, catalogues | Business & ManagementDDC classification: 658 CRA Summary: Hundreds of new business and management books are published each year. The Ultimate Business Library provides a summary of those books which have had the most significant impact on management thinking, and have shaped modern business.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The new edition of the worldwide bestseller The Ultimate Business Library , is a one-stop guide to the world's leading management thinkers. It offers a unique summary of the 75 business books that have had the most significant impact on buisness thinking.
The new edition adds 50% more new and classic books, including Blur , The Living Company and Intellectual Capital .

Previous ed. 1997.

Hundreds of new business and management books are published each year. The Ultimate Business Library provides a summary of those books which have had the most significant impact on management thinking, and have shaped modern business.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Seventy-Five Books That Made Management
  • Corporate Strategy (1965)
  • Organizational Learning (1978)
  • On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (1832)
  • The Functions of the Executive (1938)
  • Manging Across Borders (1989)
  • Management Teams: Why They Succeed or Fail (1984)
  • Leaders (1985)
  • The Managerial Grid (1964)
  • The Will to Manage (1966)
  • Leadership (1978)
  • Moments of Truth (1987)
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People (1937)
  • Reengineering the Corporation (1993)
  • Strategy and Structure (1962)
  • On War (1831)
  • Built to Last (1994)
  • A Behavioral Theory of the Firm (1963)
  • Blur (1997)
  • Out of the Crisis (1982)
  • The Practice of Management (1954)
  • The Age of Discontinuity (1969)
  • General and Industrial Management (1916)
  • Dynamic Administration (1941)
  • My Life and Work (1923)
  • Managing (1984)
  • The Living Company (1997)
  • Motion Study (1911)
  • Corporate-Level Strategy (1994)
  • Competing for the Future (1994)
  • The Age of Unreason (1989)
  • The Motivation to Work (1959)
  • The Changing Culture of Factory (1951)
  • Planning for Quality (1988)
  • The Change Masters (1983)
  • Marketing Management (1967)
  • Innovation in Marketing (1962)
  • New Patterns of Management (1961)
  • The Prince (1513)
  • The Human Side of Enterprise (1960)
  • Motivation and Personality (1954)
  • Quest of Prosperity (1988)
  • The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization (1933)
  • The Nature of Managerial Work (1973)
  • The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning (1994)
  • Onward Industry (1931)
  • Made in Japan (1986)
  • Megatrends (1982)
  • The Mind of the Strategist (1982)
  • The Borderless World (1990)
  • Toyota Production System (1978)
  • The H-P Way (1995)
  • Parkinson2s Law (1958)
  • The Art of Japanese Management (1981)
  • Managing on the Edge (1990)
  • The Peter Principle (1969)
  • In Search of Excellence (1982)
  • Liberation Management (1992)
  • Competitive Strategy (1980)
  • The Competitive Advantage of Nations (1990)
  • Action Learning (1979)
  • Organizational Culture and Leadership (1

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Stuart Crainer (Oxford, U.K.) is a noted business and management writer who contributes regularly to The Financial Times, The (London) Times, the British Airlines in-flight magazine, Across the Board, and other publications. His many books include The Ultimate Business Library, The Ultimate Book of Business Quotations, The Ultimate Book of Business Gurus, Business the Jack Welch Way, and Business the Rupert Murdoch Way.

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