The Book of Management Wisdom: Classic Writings by Legendary Managers

Partial table of contents: ESSENTIAL QUALITIES OF GREAT MANAGERS.

Harold Geneen: The Essential Elements.

Charles D. Tandy: The CEO as Entrepreneur.

Edouard Muller: Personality in Business.

Robert A. Lutz: Lutz's Immutable Laws.

Andrew W. Robertson: Management's Responsibility.

PRODUCTIVITY, EMPOWERMENT, AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT.

Robert Townsend: People.

Jack Stack: Mad about Layoffs.

Sam Walton: Creating a Culture.

Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank: The Invisible Fence.

John Sculley: Managing Creativity.

HIRING, FIRING, AND DAY-TO-DAY MANAGEMENT.

David Ogilvy: Managing Crown Princes.

Mark McCormack: How to Make or Break a Hire.

Louis F. Swift: How G. F. Swift Bossed His Job.

Lee Iacocca: Skip Meetings.

Henry Ford: Machines and Men.

THE POWER OF TECHNOLOGY.

Charles B. Wang: Repairing the CEO/CIO Disconnect.

J. Willard Marriott, Jr. and Robert G. Cross: Room at the Revenue Inn.

Esther Dyson: Friction Freedom.

James D. Robinson III: Managing Technology through People.

LESSONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD.

Roberto C. Goizueta: Globalization: A Soft Drink Perspective.

Shelly Lazarus: Global Branding.

Kenichi Ohmae: The Mind of the Strategist.

Anita Roddick: It's All Our Business.

Giovanni Agnelli: Closing the Management Gap.

EVOLUTION OF THE ORGANIZATION.

Charles Babbage: On the Division of Labour.

Charles R. Flint: Industrial Consolidation.

Alexander Graham Bell: When Does Profit Become Usury?

Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.: Modern Ideals of Big Business.

BASHING BUREAUCRACY.

Jan Carlzon: Flattening the Pyramid.

John F. Welch, Jr.: Removing Walls.

Patrick J. McGovern: The Networked Corporation.

George N. Hatsopoulos: A Perpetual Idea Machine.

REENGINEERING AND TRANSFORMATION.

Gordon Bethune: From Worst to First.

Stanley Gault: No One Excluded.

David Rockefeller: Managing Change Creatively.

John E. Martin: Reengineering the Corporation.

William S. Paley: Planning for Succession.

Acknowledgments.

Notes.

Credits and Sources.

Chronology.

Indexes.