What Management Is (how It Works And Why It’s Everyone’s Business)

‘First rate as an introduction for the non-manager and especially for the beginner, but equally excellent as a rounded, complete, and comprehensive "refresher course" for the most experienced executive’. – Peter F. Drucker Both a beginner’s guide and a bible for one of the greatest social innovations of modern times the discipline of management. Leading business editor Joan Magretta distils the wisdom of a bewildering sea of books and articles into one simple, clear volume, explaining both the logic of successful organisations and how that logic is embodied in practice by management. Newcomers will find the basics demystified. More experienced managers will recognise a store of useful wisdom and a framework for improving their own performance. In general, the book defines a common standard of managerial literacy that will help all of us to lead more effectively. About Author: Joan Magretta, M.B.A., PhD., is an award-winning contributor to the Harvard Business Review, where she was the strategy editor during the 1990s. Before that she was a partner at Bain & Company, a leading management consulting firm. She is a senior Institute Associate of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business school.