In Search of Excellence
Lessons from America's Best-run Companies
New York : HarperBusiness Essentials, 2004.
Format: Ebook
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Edition: First HarperBusiness Essentials edition.
Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 360 pages)
The "Greatest Business Book of All Time" (Bloomsbury UK), In Search of Excellence has long been a must-have for the boardroom, business school, and bedside table.
Based on a study of forty-three of America's best-run companies from a diverse array of business sectors, In Search of Excellence describes eight basic principles of management -- action-stimulating, people-oriented, profit-maximizing practices -- that made these organizations successful.
Joining the HarperBusiness Essentials series, this phenomenal bestseller features a new Authors' Note, and reintroduces these vital principles in an accessible and practical way for today's management reader.
Contents:
Successful American companies -- The rational model -- Man waiting for motivation -- Managing ambiguity and paradox -- A bias for action -- Close to the customer-- Autonomy and entrepreneurship -- Productivity through people -- Hands-on, value-driven -- Stick to the knitting -- Simple form, lean staff -- Simultaneous loose-tight properties.
Target Audience: 1160L
ISBN:
9780062263612
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[Originally published: New York : Harper & Row. 1982].
Electronic resource.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-349) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic resource.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-349) and index.
Description based on print version record.