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| Main Title | Thriving on chaos : handbook for a management revolution / | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Author | Peters, Thomas J. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Publisher | Knopf : Distributed by Random House, | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Year Published | 1987 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 16580381 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ISBN | 0394567846; 9780394567846 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Subjects | Gestion d'entreprise--Etats-Unis. ; Industrial management--United States. ; Personnel Management. ; Organizational Innovation. ; Organizational Objectives. ; Leadership. ; Management. ; Flexibilitèat. ; Kreativitèat. ; Management. ; Management--(DE-601)091376173--(DE-STW)12085-6 ; USA--(DE-601)091396867--(DE-STW)17829-1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Edition | 1st ed. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Collation | xii, 561 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references (p. 527-537) and index. |
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| Contents Notes | Prescriptions for a world turned upside down -- Facing up to the need for revolution -- Creating total customer responsiveness -- Specialize/create niches/differentiate -- Pursuing fast-paced innovation -- Achieving flexibility by empowering people -- Involve everyone in everything -- Train and retrain -- Learning to love change: a new view of leadership at all levels -- Manage by example -- Delegate -- Building systems for a world turned upside down -- Measure what's important -- Demand total integrity. Forty-five prescriptions specify what managers at every level must do if the organizations they lead are to survive in today's chaotic economic environment. |