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The Witch Doctors
What the Management Gurus are Saying, Why It Matters and How to Make Sense of It
Publisher: Mandarin, 1997 , 408 pages
ISBN: 0-7493-2670-0
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In the first critical assessment of the management gurus, The Witch Doctors dissect the management-theory phenomen.
- What are the ideas that could help your company?
- All you ever really need to learn from Tom Peters, Peter Drucker and Charles Handy
- Why management theory has produced the contradictory corporation
- The management theory industry
- How to manage knowledge
- The charms of globalisation?
- Can management be applied to the public sector?
- What can we still learn from Japan ― and from the emerging Asian economies?
- Can management theory really help your business?
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- Introduction: The World of the Witch Doctors
- Part One; How It Works
- The Fad in Progress: Re-engineering
- The Management Theory Industry
- Part Two: Prophet and Evangelist
- Peter Drucker: The Guru's Guru
- Tom Peters: Management as Performance Art
- Part Three: The Great Debates
- Rethinking the Company
- Knowledge, Learning and Innovation
- Strategy: From Planning to Vision
- Storm in the Boardroom
- The Future of Work
- Part Four: The World in Their Hands
- What does Globalisation Mean?
- The Art of Japanese Management
- A New Model in Asia?
- Part Five: New Frontiers
- Managing Leviathan: The Public Sector
- A Walk on the Wild Side
- Conclusion: An Immature Discipline
Reviews:
The Witch Doctors
Rating: ********* (Outstanding)
If you want a very thorough and from time to time funny overview of management theory and strategy, this is the book for you. A top ten book for everybody.