Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus

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This guide is in two parts. Part one provides a clear overview of more than one hundred ideas that have most influenced the management of business over the past century or so. As well as explaining each idea, it gives a brief rundown of the history behind it, and lists suggestions for further reading. Part two gives the low-down on more than 50 of the world?s most influential management thinkers past and present. The majority are American - including what can be called the "Famous Five": Peter Drucker, Douglas McGregor, Michael Porter, Alfred Sloan and Frederick Winslow Taylor - but more than 20 come from countries such as Britain, Japan, India, France and the Netherlands. For managers everywhere who want an entertaining introduction to the thinking that has driven business success over the years and will continue to be influential, this Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus will be an invaluable source of reference.

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Tim Hindle is author of several best selling books on management and business. He is a former business and management editor of The Economist and was the founder editor of Euro Business. He has also been editor of Director magazine. Table of Contents Introduction Part 1 Management Ideas Active inertia Activity-based costing Balanced scorecard Barriers to entry, exit and mobility Benchmarking Brainstorming Branding Business modeling Business planning Business process re-engineering Cannibalisation Champion Change management Cherry-picking Clustering Competitive advantage Convergence Core competence Corporate governance Corporate social responsibility Cost-benefit analysis Crisis management Cross-selling Culture Customer relationship management Decentralisation Delayering Differentiation Disruptive technology/ innovation Diversification Downsizing E-commerce Economies of scale and scope Empowerment Enterprise resource planning Entrepreneurship The experience curve Flexibility Flexible working Franchising Game theory Genchi genbutsu The glass ceiling Globalisation Growth share matrix The halo effect The Hawthorne effect Hierarchy of needs Human resources transformation Innovation Just-in-time Kaizen Keiretsu Knowledge management Leadership Lean production The long tail Management by objectives Management by walking about Mass customization Mass production Matrix management Mentoring Mission statement Niche market Offshoring Open-book management Operations research Outsourcing Performance-related pay Planned obsolescence Portfolio working Private equity Product life cycle Quality circle Scenario planning Scientific management Segmentation The Seven Ss Six Sigma Skunkworks Span of control Strategic alliance Strategic planning Succession planning Supply-chain management Sustainability SWOT analysis Synergy Talent Theories X and Y Tipping point Total quality management Triple bottom line True and fair Unique selling proposition Value chain Value creation Vertical integration Viral marketing The virtual organization Vision Zero-base budgeting Part 2 Management Gurus Igor Ansoff Warren Bennis Marvin Bower Warren Buffett Dale Carnegie Alfred Chandler Clayton Christensen Jim Collins Stephen Covey W. Edwards Deming Peter Drucker Henri Fayol Pankaj Ghemawat Sumantra Ghoshal Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Gary Hamel Michael Hammer Charles Handy Geert Hofstede Elliott Jaques Joseph Juran Rosabeth Moss Kanter Robert Kaplan and David Norton Philip Kotler Theodore Levitt James March Abraham Maslow Konosuke Matsushita Elton Mayo Douglas McGregor Henry Mintzberg Akio Morita Ikujiro Nonaka Kenichi Ohmae Taiichi Ohno Robert Owen C. Northcote Parkinson Richard Pascale Laurence Peter Tom Peters Michael Porter C.K. Prahalad Richard Rumelt E.F. Schumacher Peter Senge Herbert Simon Alfred Sloan Frederick Winslow Taylor Alvin Toffler Robert Townsend Dave Ulrich Pierre Wack Max Weber William Whyte