The Ultimate Business Library: The Greatest Books That Made Management [Paperback]

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 over 75 business books that have had the most impact on business thinking. From Tom Peters to Peter Drucker and Rosabeth Moss Kanter to Charles Handy, The Ultimate Business Library will ensure business men and women are rapidly up to speed with the ideas shaping modern business.Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

The Books which Made Management.

Igor Ansoff, Corporate Strategy (1965).

Chris Argyris & Donald Schon, Organizational Learning (1978).

Charles Babbage, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (1832).

Chester Barnard, The Functions of the Executive (1938).

Christopher Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal, Managing Across Borders (1989).

Meredith Belbin, Management Teams: Why They Succeed or Fail (1984).

Warren Bennis & Burt Nanus, Leaders (1985).

Robert Blake & Jane Mouton, The Managerial Grid (1964).

Marvin Bower, The Will to Manage (1966).

James MacGregor Burns, Leadership (1978).

Jan Carlzon, Moments of Truth (1987).

Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People (1937).

James Champy & Michael Hammer, Reengineering the Corporation (1993).

Alfred Chandler, Strategy and Structure (1962).

Karl von Clausewitz, On War (1831).

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