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Crainer (journalist and media consultant) examines the constant re-invention of management over the past 100 years, and argues that the history of management holds clues to its future. Decade by decade, he considers the trends, the innovations, the successes, the shortcomings and the personalities behind them. The book ends with an assessment of the current state of management. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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It's been with us since the dawn of civilization. But only in the past one hundred years has management been recognized, and formalized, as a profession. Now, in The Management Century, business journalist Stuart Crainer offers a fascinating, lively tour of management's golden age in a book filled with historic characters any novelist would envy. From Henry Ford to W. Edwards Deming, the innovators Crainer visits here are as in-triguing as the ideas they championed. It's a work that breathes real life into a chronology that's embedded with valuable insights for every student of management theory and practice.Read the preface of this book by clicking here.
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