Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Political economy

WHAT MANAGEMENT IS

Joan Magretta Nan Stone

How It Works and Why It's Everyone's Business

This is a new, revised edition of one of the classic business books of our time.

Whether you’re a novice manager or a seasoned executive, this book provides a firm grasp on what it takes to make an organization perform. It presents the basic principles of management: Why do you need both a business model and a strategy? Why is it impossible to manage without the right performance measures, and do yours pass the test? Magretta makes rich use of examples to bring to life management’s high concepts: value creation, business models, competitive strategy, and organizational design. She devotes equal attention to the often unwritten rules of execution that characterize the best-performing organizations. This is the big-picture management book for our times. It defines a common standard of managerial literacy that will help all of us lead more productive lives, whether we aspire to be managers or not.

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Book Published by Free Press
Book Published by Free Press

Comments

Most management books are about tools. This highly readable book is about management's task. 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 in businesses and nonprofits alike.

Finally, there's a management book written not for top executives but for everyone else who has to deal with them and clean up after their mistakes.

Rarely has anyone presented the core principles of managing in a single book.

Joan Magretta and Nan Stone have done a wonderful service with this book. They have brought back to the fore the fundamental importance of good management. And they have done so in a way that effectively distills key concepts that every executive should know into a useful toolkit.

This book will help managers in any type of organization, including nonprofits and the public sector, do their jobs better.