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Managers and Mantras: One Company's Struggle for Simplicity - Hardcover

Keary, John; Butler, Charlotte

 
9780471835585: Managers and Mantras: One Company's Struggle for Simplicity
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0471835587 ISBN 13: 9780471835585
Verlag: Verlag John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Any manager who has watched their company twist and turn with every new management theory - its ranks successively restructured, downsized and delayered - will immediately empathise with this book. Inchcape PLC is one of the UK's leading global conglomerates, and in pursuit of profitability many of the management fads and fashions of the last 25 years have been consumed in its crucible. This insider account charts the effect of these changes on the group's performance. What emerges is a vivid and entertaining exploration of the relationship between business theory and business practice.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charlotte Butler is a researcher and case writer at the Euro-Asia Centre of INSEAD, Europe's leading business school. Her research interests centre on strategy and organizational development, with special reference to the Asia-Pacific region, on which she has published extensively during the last ten years. More recently, she has written about managing change with reference to the Asian economic crisis. John Keary is a management consultant specializing in the coaching of executive teams and is based in London. He worked for the Inchcape Group for ten years latterly as management Development Director. He spent a substantial part of his career as a line manager before moving into human resource management and most of his working life has had an international dimension.

Aus dem Klappentext

These mantras of modern management will be instantly familiar to any reader of the business media in New York, London, or Singapore. Their ubiquitous presence is testimony to the powerful hold they exert on the psyche of international managers. But how easy is it to put them into practice in today's highly competitive marketplace? What impact can they actually have on a firm's performance? And what do managers who have struggled to implement these ideas really think of them? This groundbreaking book provides a rare insider's view of one company's search for the simplicity and focus demanded by contemporary business thinking. One of the oldest companies in the world, Inchcape plc went public mid-century and rose to glory first in the 1970s and again in the 1990s, before demerging at the end of the millennium. During a rollercoaster progression the company shed the complexity associated with its original conglomerate status, and moved toward the simplicity of a single, focused business. By doing this, its managers were seeking both to obey the mantras for success preached by management consultants and the business schools, and obtain the financial results to please that most ruthless of critics, the stock market. This compelling account of management under stress provokes some urgent questions about the influence of external forces on a company's strategies, and sounds timely warning against the current tendency to seek a formula for that elusive goal of continuos financial growth. If you ever wondered about the gap between management theory and practice, or the balance between people and the bottom line, then read on...

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Verlag
Verlag John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0471835587
ISBN 13 
9780471835585
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
356
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