Description
Book SynopsisThe current financial crisis has highlighted problems not only in the economic system, but also in the way that many companies are governed and managed. The Death of Modern Management provides a powerful argument about the collapse of modern management due to the weight of its own contradictions, focusing on the trends in contemporary management.
Trade Review‘[Owen] steers readers towards ways of assessing what's right for their company in its particular situation.' (Director, December 2009)
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction How We Got Here and Where We Are Going
Chapter 1 Strategy: From Following the Rules to Making the Rules.
Chapter 2 Marketing: From Selling Benefits to Selling Dreams.
Chapter 3 Power: Shifts to a New World Disorder.
Chapter 4 Money: From CAPM to the Road to Ruin.
Chapter 5 Information: From Deficit to Hyperinflation.
Chapter 6 Knowledge: From Ignorance to the Disintegration of the Firm.
Chapter 7 Organisations: From Compliance to Commitment.
Chapter 8 Change: Why Dinosaurs Can’t Dance.
Chapter 9 Employees: From Slavery to Freedom (and Back Again).
Chapter 10 Managers: Power and Making Things Happen.
Chapter 11 Leaders: No More Heroes.
Conclusion.
Index.
