The Essential Manager
How to Thrive in the Global Information Jungle
1st Edition
Published on 23. January 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
262 pages
978-1-119-00277-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book discusses the evolution of management as a profession over the past two decades and how it continues to evolve. It goes on to describe the new style of management and makes recommendations for what today's and tomorrow's managers must know and how to work.
Offers ways to think about your role as a manager in order to optimize your effectiveness toward uncertain and turbulent changes
Discusses current realities in which management currently operates
Provides a historical background of managerial practices and how they've evolved in the present workplace
Offers ways to think about your role as a manager in order to optimize your effectiveness toward uncertain and turbulent changes
Discusses current realities in which management currently operates
Provides a historical background of managerial practices and how they've evolved in the present workplace
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
404 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-119-00277-2 (9781119002772)
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Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
12/2014
Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press
€32.99
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E-Book
12/2014
Wiley
€31.99
Available for download
Person
James W. Cortada, Senior Research Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute in the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, USA, has worked at IBM in various sales, consulting, management and executive positions from 1974 through 2012 across a dozen industries and with clients around the world. He is a member of the board of director of the IT History Society, made up of senior leaders in the IT industry. He is also a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Information and Culture, and Library and Information History.
Content
Preface vii
1. Emergence of a New Managerial Style 1
2. When Management Confronts Information Ecosystems 40
3. How Technologies Affect the Work of Industries 85
4. New Organizations: What Changes, What Does Not 124
5. Emerging Economic and Business Realities 167
6. The Way Forward 200
For Further Reading 231
Index 236
1. Emergence of a New Managerial Style 1
2. When Management Confronts Information Ecosystems 40
3. How Technologies Affect the Work of Industries 85
4. New Organizations: What Changes, What Does Not 124
5. Emerging Economic and Business Realities 167
6. The Way Forward 200
For Further Reading 231
Index 236