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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; 0394560612; 9780394560618
Subjects Industrial management--United States ; Personnel Management ; Organizational Innovation ; Organizational Objectives ; Leadership ; Flexibilität ; Kreativität ; Gestion d'entreprise--Etats-Unis ; Management--(DE-601)091376173--(DE-STW)12085-6 ; USA--(DE-601)091396867--(DE-STW)17829-1 ; Flexibilitèat ; Kreativitèat
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EHBM  HD70.U5P426 1987 CEMM/ACESD Library/Narragansett,RI 04/08/2013
EJAM  HD70.U5P426 1987 Region 3 Library/Philadelphia, PA 11/05/1988
Edition 1st ed.
Collation xii, 561 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-537) and index.
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.