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RECORD NUMBER: 248 OF 263Main Title | Thriving on chaos : handbook for a management revolution / | ||||||||||||||||
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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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Edition | 1st ed. | ||||||||||||||||
Collation | xii, 561 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | ||||||||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (pages 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. |