The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business--Their Lives, Times, and Ideas - Rilegato

Gabor, Andrea

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ISBN 10: 0812928202 ISBN 13: 9780812928204

Casa editrice: Times Books, 2000

Riassunto

A readable, informative overview of the personalities and ideas that have shaped the modern business world includes profiles of Peter Drucker, W. Edwards Deming, Alfred Sloan, and Abraham Maslow and traces the rise of some of corporate America's most important business institutions. 35,000 first printing.

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A "sweeping account of management in the 20th century."
--Publishers Weekly

"An illuminating look behind the scenes at the people who shaped modern management and gave us the corporation we know and love--or know and reject--today. Andrea Gabor's engrossing stories of yesterday's big thinkers provide essential insights for tomorrow's business leaders, helping them find enduring truths in all passing fads and fancies."
--Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School, author of World Class and Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the Frontiers of Management

"Andrea Gabor has mined the lives and times of a dozen seminal figures--from Deming and Drucker to Maslow and McNamara--who have constructed our concepts of corporate management and capitalist enterprise. Through brilliant portraits of their personal lives and professional ideas, Gabor has created a compelling account of how these capitalist philosophers have not only interpreted reality but also managed to define it."
Michael Useem, director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and author of The Leadership Moment

"The well-balanced portraits examine the personal and intellectual developments of the capitalist philosophers and show how these thinkers affected big companies for good and bad. . . . [Andrea Gabor] has a good eye for the revealing details that both guided and limited her thinkers' ideas."
--Harvard Business Review

"A thoughtful and important history of seminal thinkers who shaped--and continue to shape--the theory and practice of management."
--Warren Bennis, University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California, and co-author of Co-Leaders

L'autore:

Andrea Gabor is the author of The Man Who Discovered Quality and Einstein's Wife. She has been a senior editor at U.S. News & World Report and a staff editor in corporate strategy and technology at Business Week. Gabor has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and is currently a professor at Baruch College/CUNY. She lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.

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• Editore: Times Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0812928202
• ISBN 13: 9780812928204
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 384