Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse

Authors: Wooldridge, Adrian
Publisher: Harper Business
BISAC/Subject: BUS041000, SEL024000, SEL035000
ISBN: 9780062096722, Related ISBNs: 0062096729, 9780061771132, 9780062096722
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 464,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: “Read it before buying any other business book.”—Rosabeth Moss Kanter

In this newly renamed and completely updated edition ofthe BusinessWeek bestseller The Witch Doctors with a new Forewordfrom John Micklethwait,  Adrian Wooldridgedeftly sifts the real wisdom from the dross about management theory, sortingthe sages from the charlatans and distilling the true means of success from themany ways to fail. A penetrating and engaging history of management theory,often regarded as one of the most vital and accessible business booksavailable, Masters of Management delivers, in the words of the NewYork Times Book Review, “at last some common sense in the arena dominatedby shark-swimming, chaos-seeking, megatrending,one-minute managing, highly effective people.” This updated classic isessential reading for anyone seeking to forge a path ahead in business and inlife.

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