Guide to the Management Gurus 5th Edition
  • Published: 1 March 2007
  • ISBN: 9781905211029
  • Imprint: Random House Business
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $64.99
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Guide to the Management Gurus 5th Edition

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A comprehensive guide to management thinking through the ideas of some of the leading experts.

The fifth edition of the original, best-selling guide to the ideas of leading management thinkers.

The ten additional full-length entries range from classic gurus such as Henry Gantt and the Gilbreth time-and-motion pioneers to the latest thinkers influencing 21st-century business, including Clayton Christensen, master of innovation theory, and Karen Stephenson with her ground-breaking insights into human networks.

The lives and work of more than 55 gurus are covered in clear and accessible style, along with penetrating analysis of their ideas and influence on management.

Guide to the Management Gurus has sold around the world since its first publication in 1991, and has been translated into more than 15 languages, including Russian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
  • Published: 1 March 2007
  • ISBN: 9781905211029
  • Imprint: Random House Business
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $64.99
Categories:

About the author

Carol Kennedy

Carol Kennedy is an award-winning business and management writer and the author of 12 books. Formerly executive editor of Director magazine, she is now an independent writer and consultant and lives in Wimbledon, southwest London.

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Praise for Guide to the Management Gurus 5th Edition

Anyone who is interested in management theories will be compelled to read this book. It is a glorious miscellaneous mix of ideologies.

Management Week

Are you confused by management jargon and nonplussed about why the likes of Charles Handy and Gary Hamel are held in such great awe? Then Carol Kennedy's book could be just the thing for you.

The Independent

What makes a management guru? My first port of call is Carol Kennedy . . .

Evening Standard