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Business Management 101
Management Challenges for the 21st Century
by Peter F. Drucker (Introduction)
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Tight job markets, a global economy, thin profit margins--running a competitive
business these days is not easy. Amidst a period of "profound transition," Peter
Drucker's Management
Challenges for the 21st Century offers a discerning look at the future of the
workplace. Find more forward-thinking titles on how to manage the uncertainties of today's
business environment better.
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Hardcover - 207 pages 1 Ed edition (May 1999)
Harperbusiness; ISBN: 0887309984 ;
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No single person has influenced the course of business in the 20th century as much as
Peter Drucker. He practically invented management as a discipline in the 1950s, elevating
it from an ignored, even despised, profession into a necessary institution that
"reflects the basic spirit of the modern age." Now, in Management Challenges
for the 21st Century, Drucker looks at the profound social and economic changes
occurring today and considers how management--not government or free markets--should
orient itself to address these new realities..
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A Book of Five Rings
by Miyamoto
Musashi, Victor
Harris (Translator)
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Hardcover (June 1992)
Outlet; ISBN: 0517415283 ; Dimensions (in
inches): 0.55 x 8.53 x 7.28
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Synopsis
Since the publication of its first English translation in 1974, The Book of Five Rings
has become an underground classic in the American business community, where it is studied
as a text on Japanese management techniques. Here are timeless principles of craft, skill,
timing, and spirit from a great samurai warrior--plus background on Zen, Bushido, Heiho,
and Musashi's life. Two color. --This text refers to the paperback edition
of this title
Synopsis
The classic text on samurai strategy--that changed the American way of doing
business--provides principles of craft, skill, timing, and spirit which result in victory.
--This text refers to the audio cassette
edition of this title
Synopsis
The best-selling Japanese classic of conflict and strategy--studied for its insights
into the Japanese approach to business strategy--from the translator of The Art of War.
Cleary's rendering of the text presents an accessible, jargon-free translation along with
another important Japanese classic on leadership and strategy, The Book of Family
Traditions on the Art of War by Yagyu Munenori. --This text refers to the paperback edition
of this title
- there are several translations of this "classic" ...
I have had this one on my bookshelf for about 10 years ... and recommend it highly ... at
the time of its release it was touted as the Japanese MBA ... Zig.
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RESULTS-BASED LEADERSHIP
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COUNTING WHAT COUNTS:
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