According to a recent article in the Harvard Business Review, "Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential and significantly devoid of common sense." Bestselling author Jack Trout claims that what really ails business today is an obsession with management fads that frequently offer complicated, useless solutions that impede the development of business. In h…
Challenging managers to reexamine their assumptions about effective leadership, a study of organizations and human relations explores thirty paradoxical situations and the impact of effective leadership. 60,000 first printing.
It's no secret that work today is more demanding than ever before. The world of work is forever changed, with no signs that it will ever go back to the way it was. The bottom-line orientation required for budget-constrained organizations is the new way of life. The forever increasing need for output without a proportionate increase in manpower is driving executives and managers to demand more f…
"The Human Development Report 2001", commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is the latest annual installment in a series devoted to shifting the development debate away from a sole concern with economic growth toward a balanced concern for equity, sustainability, and empowerment. Now published in 13 languages, the Report features a wide variety of national development …