Managers and Mantras
One Company's Struggle for Simplicity
Published on 7. January 2000
Book
Hardback
XVIII, 352 pages
978-0-471-83558-5 (ISBN)
Description
Any manager who has watched their company twist and turn with every new management theory - its ranks successively restructured, downsized and delayered - will immediately empathise with this book. Inchcape PLC is one of the UK's leading global conglomerates, and in pursuit of profitability many of the management fads and fashions of the last 25 years have been consumed in its crucible. This insider account charts the effect of these changes on the group's performance. What emerges is a vivid and entertaining exploration of the relationship between business theory and business practice.
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Content
THE END OF AN ERA; From Merchant Prince to Colonial Dinosaur; Entrepreneurs, Fiefdoms, and Shocks; Enter the Consultants; The Great Caretaker Takes Great Care; TURNBULL TURNS IT ROUND, 1986-92; You Will Achieve ; The Glory Days; Like Speaking a Swiss Language ; What's My Line?; CUTTING LOOSE, 1992-94; Going Global; ACE and Other Slogans; The Class Act of the Recession ; Cracks in the Edifice; REALITY TIME; A Short, Sharp Dose of Leadership; Falling from Grace; A New Mantra: One Company, One Team; Storm Clouds Gather; From Fizz to Focus; Conclusion; Epilogue; References; Index.