The Guru Guide: The Best Ideas of the Top Management Thinkers Book

Management theory is all well and good, but how many managers have the time to read up on it? This book is a sort of management primer, bringing together ideas from some of the top names in management science and explaining them in easy, accessible terms. With chapters organised around themes such as motivating people, the pursuit of market leadership and creating high performance, it has a practical slant, designed to help you both understand the theories and see how they relate to your own workplace. In preparation the authors read 200 books and 3000 articles--that's probably more than most of us would get through no matter how devoted we are to our subject--and the result is clued-up and grounded in everyday business life. The Guru Guide manages to synthesise many of the conflicting views surrounding each theory and through the authors' own discussion, the reader comes away with an alternative perspective. The presentation is accessible, with diagrams, lists and tables all playing a part in explaining the ideas and a summary of the key points closing each chapter. The end result is a book which bridges nicely the divide between academia and the real world: students of management theory may find it useful, but so will employees trying to improve their own, and their company's, performance. --Sandra VogelRead More