The book of management wisdom: classic writings by legendary managers

Essential elements / Harold Geneen

What it takes to be a manager / John M. Fox

CEO as entrepreneur / Charles D. Tandy

Personality in business / Edouard Muller

Managing knowledge toward wisdom / Robert Galvin

Lutz's immutable laws / Robert A. Lutz

Management's responsibility / Andrew W. Robertson

How to make confrontation work for you / Andrew S. Grove

People / Robert Townsend

Mad about layoffs / Jack Stack

Creating a culture / Sam Walton

Community involvement : key to profits, productivity / Martha Ingram

Invisible fence / Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank

Managing creativity / John Sculley

Managing Crown Princes / David Ogilvy

How to make or break a hire / Mark McCormack

How G.F. Swift bossed his job / Louis F. Swift

Can good management be reduced to simple rules? / August Heckscher

Skip meetings / Lee Iacocca

Machines and men / Henry Ford

Waging a campaign of internal evangelism / Michael Dell

IT departments : getting down to business / Jim Barksdale

Repairing the CEO/CIO disconnect / Charles B. Wang

Room at the revenue inn / J. Willard Marriott, Jr. and Robert G. Cross

Friction freedom / Esther Dyson

Managing technology through people / James D. Robinson III

Globalization : a soft drink perspective / Roberto C. Goizueta

Global branding / Shelly Lazarus

Morita shock : a new paradigm for true partnership / Akio Morita.

Mind of the strategist / Kenichi Ohmae

It's all our business / Anita Roddick

Closing the management gap / Giovanni Agnelli

What American CEOs can learn from German management / Klaus Luft

On the division of labour / Charles Babbage

Employer's view of the labor question / Andrew Carnegie

Industrial consolidation / Charles R. Flint

When does profit become usury? / Alexander Graham Bell

Modern ideals of big business / Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.

Multinational company : new weight in an old balance / Walter B. Wriston

Conglomerates are doing better than you think / Royal Little

Flattening the pyramid / Jan Carlzon

Removing walls / John F. Welch, Jr.

Myth of the organization chart / Clarence B. Randall

Networked corporation / Patrick J. McGovern

Perpetual idea machine / George N. Hatsopoulos

From worst to first / Gordon Bethune

No one excluded / Stanley Gault

People will support that which they help create / Mary Kay Ash

Managing change creatively / David Rockefeller

Brand new day in the business world / Cathleen Black

Reengineering the corporation / John E. Martin.

Planning for succession / William S. Paley

What growth and change have taught us / Thomas J. Watson, Jr.