Achieving Excellence in Management, livre ebook

Most books on management principles focus on particular rules of thumb and best management practices. While the latter approach provides useful guidance and insights, it does not give executives much of an understanding of what bad management can entail and the damage that it can produce. Indeed, good management makes the most sense when it can be directly contrasted with examples of bad management and its implications.

To fill this critical gap, this book adopts a fresh approach, identifying cases of bad management from real-life business situations experienced by the author and contrasting them with good management practice. Inside this long-awaited title, you’ll learn the following:

• Management: Avoiding the bad, applying the good-with real life examples
• Contrasting good and bad management in companies & world affairs
• Applying rigorous management techniques to novel situations

List of Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Chapter 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
PART I GOOD AND BAD MANAGEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Chapter 2 Essential Fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Chapter 3 Management Failings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 4 Ideal Managers and Excellent Companies . . . . . . . . . . 47
PART II APPLICATIONS TO MANAGING IN
DIFFERENT CONTEXTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Chapter 5 Differences in Managing Small Businesses . . . . . . . . . . 57
Chapter 6 Extra Needs for International Management . . . . . . . . . 73
PART III APPLICATIONS TO EXTERNAL SITUATIONS . . . 87
Chapter 7 Management Issues and Crises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Chapter 8 How to Better Manage Our (World) Affairs. . . . . . . . 101
Chapter 9 Conclusions, Review of the Past, Changes for
the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Appendix A Case Study: The Rio to Paris Plane Crash . . . . . . . . . 121
Appendix B Application to the Management of Soccer Matches . . . 127
Appendix C Detailed Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137