The Future of Management
All Roads Lead to Man
Published on 24. October 1996
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-631-20307-0 (ISBN)
Description
This incisive and visionary book is for those executives, companies and students of business who realise that they need to welcome new views of both the future and themselves if they are to learn the real lessons that will affect business management, in its broadest sense, in the coming decades.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
550 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-20307-0 (9780631203070)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Robort Salmon is Vice--Chairman of La Oreal, France.
Content
Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Of Beaten Paths and Dead--Ends:. 1. The Ubiquitous World T. V. Screen: A Source of Confusion and Cultural Resistance. 2. The Twilight Dream of Dogma and the Unchallenged Supremacy of Economic Relations. 3. Government: Archaic Practices and Lack of Vision. 4. Selfishness and the Survival of Our Planet. 5. The Satiated Consumer. 6. The Triumph of Intelligence Over Material Factors. 7. The Future: As Ominous As Predicted?. Part II: Beacons in the Storm:. 8. Living With Uncertainty. 9. Ethics As a Foundation for Consensus. 10. Social Responsibility for All. 11. Reconciling Economy and Ecology. 12. Controlling and Sharing Information. 13. Human Progress: The Sole Justification for Technological Change. 14. Todaya s Changes, Tomorrowa s Products. Part III: Basing Strategies on People:. 15. Cultivating Systematic Thinking. 16. The Intangible As a Source of Meaning and Coherence. 17. The New Hope Placed in Corporations. 18. Organizations in the Service of People. 19. The Art of Leadership: Involving Everyone in Creative Work. 20. Waking the Sleeping Giant. Seven Keys to Lasting Prosperity.