Popular management books and authors

March 2013

Sylvia Ann Hewett  - Sylvia Ann Hewitt Associates

Books: Winning the Warfor Talent in Emerging Markets:Why Women are the Solution
Off-Ramps and On-Ramps
When the Bough Breaks



Joshua Gans

Information Wants to be shared - Pub. by Harvard Business Review Press

CMI 2013 Award Winning Books
http://yearbook.managers.org.uk/winners-2013


Managing Equality and Diversity : Theory and Practice
Savita Kumra, Simonetta Manfredi
Oxford University Press

The Strategy Book: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results
Max Mckeown
Pearson

The Leadership Skills Handbook: 50 Essential Skills You Need to be a Leader
Jo Owen
Kogan Page

Winning at Innovation: The A-F Model
Fernando Trías de Bes, Philip Kotler
Palgrave Macmillan

The Management Book: How to Manage Your Team to Deliver Outstanding Results
Richard Newton
Pearson

Multiplier:how the best leaders make every one smarter by Elizabeth Wiseman With Greg McKeown - book review

About the Author

Liz Wiseman is the president of The Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development center headquartered in Silicon Valley. She advises senior executives and leads strategy and leadership forums for executive teams worldwide. A former executive at Oracle Corporation, she worked as the vice president of Oracle University and for seventeen years as the global leader for human resource development. She holds a BS in business management and a master's in organizational behavior, each from Brigham Young University.



Table of Contents

 
Foreword by Stephen R. Covey ix
 
1 The Multiplier Effect 1
2 The Talent Magnet 33
3 The Liberator 65
4 The Challenger
5 The Debate Maker 133
6 The Investor 159
7 Becoming a Multiplier 195
 
Acknowledgements 225
Appendix A: The Research Process 229
Appendix B: Frequently Asked Questions 237
Appendix C: The Multipliers 245
Appendix D: Multipliers Discussion Guide 249
The Multipliers Assessment 252
Notes 253
Index 257

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Criticism on management theory

Criticism on management theory 
book review management by Philip kotler

In the book review, two things are prominently mentioned. One, management has a focus on efficiency which is the Taylor's prescription and second, fresh MBA graduates go in to consulting and successful business people pay for their inappropriate service. Matthew Stewart worked in consulting organization.

But what is interesting is the background of Stewart which is philosophy. He want to argue for infusion of philosophy into management thought. He can do it without unduly criticisizing Taylor. Taylor contributed an idea at that point in time and it did not prevent any body else from developing the theory from any other perspective and expanding the theory. Certainly Taylor has not proposed grand business theory. He proposed the theory of relations, roles and responsibilities between managements and operators. Theories generally relate specific events and the events are very narrowly focused. So Taylor need not be criticized for his focus on shop management and management of methods and operators.

Regarding the practices of consulting companies, may be Stewart is right, but the solution lies in correcting the current practice rather than criticizing the need for management consulting.

In the context of narrow focus and broad focus of management theories, an interesting reading will be