Book Description
It is essential to have a thorough understanding of economic information and to be able to grasp fully the real implications of the economic indicators referred to in business reports and by the media. This guide is, above all, a practical work that clearly explains the underlying economic realities of today's world. Fully updated and revised, this sixth edition is an invaluable reference for those in business, the financial markets, or government, and a necessary resource for students. Written for the nonspecialist, this accessible guide explains how to understand and interpret all that main economic indicators that relate to: GDP and GNI (GNP); Growth, trends and cycles; Population, employment, unemployment; Government; Investment and savings; Industry and commerce; Balance of payments; Exchange rates; and Money and financial markets.
Customer Reviews:
Nice handy guide .......2006-03-03
I wish I would have had it during Macroeconomics class for a reference.
A reference guide.......2006-03-01
I expected a guide that would assist in determining where we were in the business cycle. This wasn't really it. The book is structured more like an encyclopedia - analyzing each indicator in detail and in isolation. A fine addition to anyone's economic reference books, but disappointed me by failing to treat the economy as an organic whole.
If only economics were that easy.......2004-02-09
True to the style of The Economist, this book makes everything seem easier than it really is. However, for people who spend too much time thinking about economic issues, this is actually rather refreshing, much like a cold beer after a long day's work.
Some examples: "In the long term, the growth in economic output depends on the number of people working and output per worker (productivity)" (Page 41); Or "In general, the more optimistic consumers are, the more likely they are to spend money. This boosts consumer spending and economic output" (Page 93)...
...One begins to yearn for the days where economics was more of an explanatory and less a mathematical science.
The guide is divided into a number of chapters discussing issues and examples related to
- How economic activity is calculated, and what the main indicators GDP/GNP/NNI capture and do not capture, as well as what changes in these indicators or their components mean.
- Employment indicators such as employment by sector or the unemployment rate
- Balance of payments and fiscal indicators, such as tax revenue or budget deficit
- Consumer indicators, such as disposable income or consumer confidence and their significance
- Investment and savings indicators, such as investment intentions or sales/inventory ratios
- Business indicators, including business conditions, auto sales, construction orders and other common stats
- Exchange rates and financial market indicators, such as interest rates and money supply.
- Prices and wages, like the effect of oil price changes, among others
Coverage of the most common and widely available indicators is fairly comprehensive. Given the simplicity of the book, it is better to have a certain level of economic knowledge and opinion to be able to put the content in context. Not much different to reading The Economist, really.
A good reference guide for understanding economic indicators.......2000-09-20
The book itself will be of great use for those analysts who evaluate country risk analysis. Economic indicators sometimes tend to be hard to understand, but this guide makes them easy to comprehend and relate to each other.
A good purchase.......2000-06-11
As the title says, this book can help you make sense of economic indicators. The more you know, the easier it is for you to understand the economical aspects of society, and this seemed to add a lot more to my knowledge, and it clarified other thoughts.
Book Description
The authors' extensive experience in teaching and private practice show in this introduction to accounting. Financial and management accounting topics are integrated into a natural order—the way they may occur in a real start-up business. The book presents the evolution of a fictitious business from its formation, looking first at the strategic planning and research to organize the business, financing the plan, investing in the resources, amd operating the business. As you read, you'll learn the accounting cycle culminating with the financial statements, to analyze the information for internal management decisions, and to compare the fictitious business with others. An excellent resource for entrepreneurs and small business owners, as well as accounting managers in large corporations.
Customer Reviews:
Start-up approach to beginning accounting.......2006-02-23
I bought this textbook precisely because it presented a framework for accounting that would be encountered by a start-up company. When I studied first year accounting it was what you would call bookkeeping and I don't remember it as being particularly interesting.
This book, because of its ongoing narrative about the start-up, was much better. It lacks color and graphics such as you will now find in many other texts, but did quite well in getting Elevation Sports up and running. Maybe the authors can find a more interesting start-up, but the premise is a good one that I hope other authors will follow.
Record purchase entry of this book as a bad debt.......2005-04-10
You know, it's too bad these reviews can't be weighted because there's a class of about 40 people with whom I took accounting in university that would trash this book. Make it 41 for the prof who stepped in and had to use it. It is not well written, with information presented out of logical order. It does not cover the materials sufficiently, nor in enough depth, trying to combine financial and managerial accounting in a book full of "worksheet" style pages that could have, and should have, been cheaply produced in an accompanying study or homework guide instead of built into a hard cover book that doesn't even have a lot of content to begin with. It's a waste of money at just about any price, not being able to teach the material, never mind at its outrageous price. I wish we could sue to get our money back on books that simply don't live up to standards. I also wish there was a zero star rating, or negative ones, which indicate complete waste of time and/or money, never mind zero value to purchase and read!
Book Description
Do you want to be more focused and have clear goals to pursue and attain? This book will show you how you can live ""on purpose.""
Customer Reviews:
Not my cup of tea........2007-05-12
I'm a life coach and thought this might be fun and informative. I never made it past the first five minutes.
Great for Personal Life or Running Your Business.......2006-03-31
The concepts in this book are presented in such an inspiring way, that you start making little changes in your daily life almost automatically. But, they are also so practical, described so well, and even come with concrete steps to follow, that the suggestions can even be life-changing. I first used the book when I became overwhelmed juggling a legal career at an overly busy office, and a family. Now that I've started my own law firm, it is helping me to stay calm while being productive and focused.
Follow the Book and Reap Rewards!.......2005-01-07
I picked up this book at the beginning of the year after reading rave reviews in hopes but not truly expecting it to help my mindset. Each year I set goals and though I may accomplish one or two..generally the next year I am setting the same goals.
By the time I had completed the first half of the book my way of thinking had changed. I completed the exercises as I read the book.
You begin by listing your goals. Then you decide which is more important and finally which is MOST important. It seems so simple yet the way the author teaches you to do this gave me greater success than other methods.
I was really surprised to find what my most desired goal was. I thought it was something else. But by following the exercises I realized a I had a strong desire to accomplish another goal I never realized was the most important to me. Next you work towards accomplishing your goal.
McCarthy uses the image of a light switch. If you are switched on you are working towards your goals. Conversely if you are not you are not ON PURPOSE.
Within days I was accomplishing tasks to help me achieve many of my goals! An excellent book and most highly recommended!
I'm Super-Mom now!.......2004-03-25
Kevin's system of organizing the important things-to-do in your life has really helped me streamline my life. Sometimes I get complacent and don't have my to-do list written down, but then I'll feel super overwhelmed...my husband calls it "overwhelmed to the point of paralysis!" Soon, I realize I need my OPP to-do-list form! I print out a copy of the form I made on the computer, and start writing my to-do list using Kevin's formula. Then I can sleep soundly knowing my priorities for the next day or two.
Comments on "On-purpose person".......2002-01-17
Actually, I was a person who didn¡¦t have any purpose. Therefore, I always wait for others to play with me. When I was playing with them, it was a very happy time for me. However, I felt lost and lonely again when I was at rest. After reading this book, it really changed me a lot. Since the author was going to teach the readers to become an on-purpose person, it is very worthy to read this book if you feel lost in this moment.
Here are some comments from me:
- Well-structure
Since it is a very difficult to make a person become on-purpose, it is very hard to understand. Therefore, the author used a very good and clear structure to express the ideas and methods of being an on-purpose person. For example, he divided the content into 3 steps. Then, it is very easy to follow the ideas and methods.
- Interesting
In many books, it is very boring if it is related to any philosophy. However, it is a very interesting book since it is wrote in story format. Also, different characters told different steps in the book. Moreover, the methods and ideas are related to the characters¡¦ own experiences. When you are reading, you will become one of the characters in the book. So, it really can help you to involve in the story.
- Meaningful
The concept of this book is clear ¡V how to be an on-purpose person. From my point of view, being an on-purpose person is very important. I can¡¦t imagine that how terrible is a life without purpose. Besides, I was strongly agreed that the author used a light switch to make a metaphor. When the switch is off, that means you are off-purpose. When the switch is on, that means you are on-purpose. Therefore, it is no need for us to switch on the light in the whole day. But it is necessary for us to make the switch if you want a bright life.
Customer Reviews:
At too a simple a level to be widely used.......2007-02-19
While this book does conform to the title segment "A Conceptual Overview", I am not sure that it satisfies an existing market niche. I have been teaching basic statistics at the college level for decades and am used to equations and formulas in a statistics book. Therefore, I will admit that my background may be causing some bias in my outlook.
There is only one formula in this book, the expression for standard deviation and it is in an appendix. And unfortunately, it is not well presented; the sigma notation is used without being well explained. The coverage is thorough; all of the topics that I cover in my basic statistics class are in this book. But covered in such a superficial manner that I find it difficult to believe that the reader will really be learning anything about what statistics really is. I don't see how it is possible to really learn what a mean is without seeing it in formula form.
The only people that I could possibly recommend this book to would be those who have no idea at all what statistics is and what it is used for. Other than that, there seems no other place where it can be used.
Guide? No! - Workbook? Yes! - Value? So-so / it depends ..........2007-02-15
Clearly, this is an introductory book. As the title implies, the book's contents are very basic - most appropriate for undergraduate (or maybe even high school) statistics; probably not for graduate students unless they need something for a 'super quick' review. (But even then, there are references other than this book better suited for that purpose.)
The author says the book might be used to demonstrate "that the interpretation of data is not always straigthforward" (p. vii). But I think using "excerpts" of studies makes it more difficult to understand how and why approaches to data interpretation vary. An appropriately chosen article may serve the purpose as adequately as the book (if not more).
A Superficial Introduction to Statistics .......2006-10-01
I used parts of this book (2nd edition)to teach Basic Statistics to Business students at Cambridge College. It provides a VERY basic introduction to most most statistical concepts, but you need to supplement the Journal Article Excerpts it provides with a lot of material. There is little reason to believe that a student can really grasp all of the fundamentals of statistics using this book. For those who just want a superficial introduction to some basic concepts (which they are likely to forget before ever truly being able to apply), I guess this book is somewhat satisfactory.
good research & stats work book.......2005-09-26
was received in a timely manner in very good condition
Not even close.......2005-09-11
This book is nothing more than real world examples of statistics, which in an of itself is truly a good thing. However, the title of this book is "Interpreting BASIC STATISTICS". No one, absolutley NO ONE who is a beginner (and hence someone who would need BASIC statistic knowledge) should ever purchase this hideous book.
Obviously the author just wanted another book published and those who consulted the author, especially the "professor emeritus" should be completely ashamed of their participation.
Book Description
Presenting the best practices of the best manufacturing companies in the world, this book presents proven models for achieving world-class performance. Using a case study of a fictional company called Beta International, Moore illustrates how to increase uptime, lower costs, increase market share, maximize asset utilization, apply benchmarks and best practices, and improve many other aspects that ultimately raise your company's performance to the level of world-class. 'Making Common Sense Common Practice' takes a good, hard look at plant design, procurement, parts management, installation and maintenance, training, and implementing a computerized maintenance management system. In discussing the successes and failures of the world's premier manufacturers, Moore outlines a stable path of growth for almost any manufacturing company. In today's tough competitive markets, 'Making Common Sense Common Practice' greatly enhances your company's chance to succeed - and profit.
* Third edition features updating plus new sections on innovation, change management, and leadership
* Presents proven models for achieving world-class performance based on real-life case histories
* Highly readable, concrete style brings the key points to life through a case study of a fictitious organization, Beta International, which runs throughout the book, based on real case histories
Customer Reviews:
Great career development material.......2007-01-11
Ron Moore's knowledge and passion for business comes out in his book "Making Common Sense, Common Practice". I give this book to supervisors as required reading material when they are preparing for the Society of Maintenance & Reliability Society's - Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional Exam.
Book Description
You are a good person. You are one of the 84 million Americans who volunteer with a charity. You are part of a national donor pool that contributes nearly $200 billion to good causes every year. But you wonder: Why don't your efforts seem to make a difference?
Fifteen years ago, Robert Egger asked himself this same question as he reluctantly climbed aboard a food service truck for a night of volunteering to help serve meals to the homeless. He wondered why there were still people waiting in line for soup in this day and age. Where were the drug counselors, the job trainers, and the support team to help these men and women get off the streets? Why were volunteers buying supplies from grocery stores when restaurants were throwing away unused fresh food every night? Why had politicians, citizens, and local businesses allowed charity to become an end in itself? Why wasn't there an efficient way to solve the problem?
Robert knew there had to be a better way. In 1989, he started the D.C. Central Kitchen by collecting unused food from local restaurants, caterers, and hotels and bringing it back to a central location where hot, nutritious meals were prepared and distributed to agencies around the city. Since then, the D.C. Central Kitchen has been named one of President Bush Sr.'s Thousand Points of Light and has become one of the most respected and emulated nonprofit agencies in the world, producing and distributing more than 4,000 meals a day. Its highly successful 12-week job-training program equips former homeless transients and drug addicts with culinary and life skills to gain employment in the restaurant business.
In Begging for Change, Robert Egger looks back on his experience and exposes the startling lack of logic, waste, and ineffectiveness he has encountered during his years in the nonprofit sector, and calls for reform of this $800 billion industry from the inside out. In his entertaining and inimitable way, he weaves stories from his days in music, when he encountered legends such as Sarah Vaughan, Mel Torme, and Iggy Pop, together with stories from his experiences in the hunger movement -- and recently as volunteer interim director to help clean up the beleaguered United Way National Capital Area. He asks for nonprofits to be more innovative and results-driven, for corporate and nonprofit leaders to be more focused and responsible, and for citizens who contribute their time and money to be smarter and more demanding of nonprofits and what they provide in return. Robert's appeal to common sense will resonate with readers who are tired of hearing the same nonprofit fund-raising appeals and pity-based messages. Instead of asking the "who" and "what" of giving, he leads the way in asking the "how" and "why" in order to move beyond our 19th-century concept of charity, and usher in a 21st-century model of change and reform for nonprofits.
Enlightening and provocative, engaging and moving, this book is essential reading for nonprofit managers, corporate leaders, and, most of all, any citizen who has ever cared enough to give of themselves to a worthy cause.
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful depiction of fundraising today.......2007-08-23
Great book! Has a wonderful history of fundraising element to it that I was not expecting. It really is fantastic to feel as if the work you are doing for a non-profit is really making a difference, doing things Egger's way will get you there.
Good Background and Ideas!.......2006-03-16
Eighty-four Americans volunteer with a charity, and $200 billion is contributed every year. "Begging for Change" summarizes Robert Egger looking back on his experiences (first running successful night clubs, then a non-profit kitchen and training program) and offering his critique of the $800 billion non-profit world in general.
A key Egger point is that non-profits need to ask: "Are you perpetuating a cycle of need and dependency?" Today charity is governed by innumerable individuals and their egos, many of which are "business-as-usual" career do-gooders who've never run their own company. Many duplicate each others' services and fight each other for funding. They talk of how many were fed or sheltered, but not about how many got out of dependency.
There now are more than 1.5 million non-profits, and their latest evolution is to "realize" that they have to pay those at the top well to attract good people. Thus, in D.C. there are about 25,000 non-profits, requiring over $1.5 billion just for CEO and executive director salaries! Yet, over 70% have revenues less than $500,000/year, and neither government nor Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand" act to make those that are ineffective go away. Many should.
In addition, there is the needless complexity added by multiple funding sources and their frequent "strings." One non-profit gets its $20 million from 161 sources - think of all the attention required to mind all those masters!
Egger started a training program for cooks, food-handlers, and servers - thus, both offering them a "hand-up" (instead of just a "hand-out") and substantially reducing the need for full-time assistants. Many fail, but many more succeed; even a substantial number of those that fail initially (drug tests, absences) reform, come back, and later complete the program.
Another important Egger point is that companies interested in helping the poor should first focus on paying their own employees well enough so that they can succeed, rather than paying them so little that they cannot succeed and then wondering how to help others that are downtrodden.
Another Egger innovation was to realize that local catering services were always being leaned on by non-profits to provide deeply discounted services. Egger offered to take that business over with his staff in training - and thus relieved them of a burden while providing his trainees with an important opportunity to demonstrate their talents first-hand to society's higher-ups. He also briefly illustrates examples where organizations provide for-profit services while focusing on hiring those with checkered or limited backgrounds.
Egger points out that the aging Baby Boom will soon provide a test of our social services as they move into old age and increasingly require more services.
Finally, Egger suggests that "more" is not always "better." For example, if his organization held a fund-raiser to renovate or acquire new facilities, that would deplete resources available in the community for other needy organizations.
Egger's examples of systems thinking and sacrifice by those at the top (Egger took only a $50,000 salary while heading the D.C. United Fund) should be taken to heart by all non-profits (especially the Red Cross) and the government (with its many overlapping and conflicting programs).
No idea what he's talking about .......2006-01-25
Egger dismisses the work of fundraising revolutionaries like Dan Pallotta without really understanding what Pallotta was about. With Egger's "vision" non-profits would stay small, pay their workers miserly wages, and the next generation of fundraisers would be wise to look for better paying work. Pathetic lack of fundraising innovation.
Intelligent, inspiring, and practical.......2005-12-11
As a person inexperienced with community foundations or nonprofit organizations and now on a foundation committee, I found Mr. Egger's book to be colorful, amusing, down to earth and imminently practical. To think that someone in the seemingly shallow entertainment business could turn around and use his knowledge to change nonprofits and foundations into dynamic enterprises with enthusiastic participants at all levels is exremely inspiring.
Chock full of facts and logic.......2005-12-01
Egger's book is an excellent combination of facts, cause-effect logic and practical suggestions on how to make charity much more life-changing for the recipients. As a Hurricane Katrina victim, I know first hand how little meaningful help comes from big not-for-profits and government. The system is crying for reform. Eggers has an approach that works better than many current ones. People in positions of authority need to listen and change behaviors.
Book Description
Business strategy is not rocket science. It's about using pertinent information to make smart decisions, and doing it fast enough to keep your business ahead of the curve. And while many companies have embraced the 24/7 business paradigm, their strategies come from the 9-to-5 era. Plain and simple, most strategic planning efforts fail because they can't keep up with the evolving demands of the market.
Standing apart from the piles of discarded management wisdom, Making Sense of Strategy provides real, practical insights and advice for 21st-century businesses. Top strategy consultant Tony Manning cuts through layer after layer of "guru" babble to bring the reader only the most genuinely valuable information: the questions that need to be asked, the principles that every organization and its people must adopt, and the tools that every company needs in order to develop their core business strategies and create profit. Manning's refreshingly streamlined approach to strategy encompasses:
* The value of shared ideas * The importance of creating and sustaining unique communities for your products or services * The link between a company's values and those of its customers and shareholders * And why strategic management is ultimately a conversation, one that empowers its participants with a sense of purpose and ownership.
A real-world, no-nonsense guide, Making Sense of Strategy is the key to turning plans into action -- fast!
Book Description
"In business, either you're an agent of change, or you're destined to become a victim of change." -- Norm Brodsky in Inc Magazine
Customer Reviews:
Not Very Practical.......2007-07-03
If you are a practitioner you will not find this book very helpful. It has a number of interesting ideas, but they randomly presented. If you are looking for a more systematic or strategic approach, I'd recommend Beitler's Strategic Organizational Change or Kotter's Leading Change.
Learning to Make the Best of Change.......2007-05-12
Good Book. It presents the reader with seveal different theories and I learned alot about how change takes takes place in the work place. Overall a good book to read for any leader.
Making Sense?.......2007-04-07
I'm not sure it made that much sense. I was looking for a more practical book on how to do it - how to design an organization based on the needs.
Basic.......2007-01-15
This book would be useful if you do not practice as a manager. It provides an elementary overview. If you are a practitioner, I'd recommend Kotter, Beitler, or Bridges.
A must-have.......2007-01-10
This is one of the most useful, accessible and instantly applicable books on change management out there!
It collates quite a few well-published theorems and methodologies in one place, demonstrates the pros and cons of each without going into too much detail, but leaves it to the reader to decide which is appropriate in a given situation and, as a whole, the authors provides you with an unsurpassed collection of tools and models to apply in any given change scenario.
You will find yourself referring back to this again and again.
Book Description
This volume brings together the best-known and most influential articles on sensemaking by one of its most distinguished exponents, Karl Weick.Weick explores the process of how organizations discover that they face important decisions. Often organizations have discussions in order to see what they think, or act in order to see what they want - before they are even aware that a decision has to be made. The effective organization is one that understands this process of sensemaking and learns to manage it with wisdom. The ways in which people do that are demonstrated in chapters of this book.This important collection provides a valuable addition to the international literature on organization theory and will be welcomed by students and researchers alike.
Customer Reviews:
A Good Collection of Weick's Work.......2001-01-10
Weick's insights into how people make sense of what is happening in situations is unique and profound. It is also difficult and Weick's work is not always easy to make sense of itself.
Anyone with a deep interest in how cognition relates to organizational activity will love Weick's work.
Amazon.com
Management theory is a worldwide growth industry these days. Terrified of falling behind, business executives flock from one management guru to another in search of a competitive edge. Catchwords such as "chaos," "excellence," and "quality" echo in corporate halls and bounce around boardrooms the world over. Which ideas and theories are sound, and which are ultimately useless fads? John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge spent two years answering this question. Their resulting book, The Witch Doctors, separates the management wheat from the chaff. In mercifully jargon-free prose, they look at the promise and problems of what's driving the current management industry explosion. Starting with Peter Drucker and Tom Peters, the authors examine the major ideas and their proponents, focusing not only on corporate implications but on social consequences as well.
Book Description
The Witch Doctors is a one-stop guide to management theories, fads, and the gurus who promote them that will spark controversy, debate, and a dialogue for change. Funny, entertaining and outspoken, this is a book no American worker can afford to miss.
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Reviews:
Should be required reading for an MBA.......2007-03-11
Every B-School professor should have to teach a course based on this book, and every MBA should have to read it. This debunks many of the gurus and wonderkids that have offered magic wands.
Even real, valid management principles and techniques are hard to employ (hint - that's why they call it "work"), so any kind of quick fix should be guilty until proven innocent. This book shows why.
I once ran a management mentoring program for a major corporation, and I noticed that most people don't really read management books. In some cases, that's a good thing. But some, like Drucker's books, and this one need to be read and understood - otherwise people are just playing at management.
Why Can't You Grab Fish?.......2007-01-28
Most of the Amazon reviews are fair on this book. I bought this at a used book store several years ago. Just now got around to reading it and wished I would have read it sooner. This is a meta book about the business of the management business. If you are involved with business management in some way this book is a bit of truth serum and potential dose of medicine.
Just like the fact is that you can't just grab fish (due to light refraction and quick movement of the fish), managing is equally difficult and subject to trial and error. The "bottom-line" is that it is frustrating and time-consuming. Sure, it is not impossible to get lucky but the probability of grabbing the fish is correlated to your own prior personal experience.
Business media, new management gurus and even academic research are akin to learning about the science of the fish and how it can be cooked, where to find fish, why you need them, etc...I read this as a someone with a formal education in business at the graduate and MBA-level. I've been reluctant to read management books for alot of the reasons mentioned in this book. Fads are great for selling books and driving a consulting or seminar business but of limited value when you are "in the hot seat" trying to grab the fish...with your family and many people depending on you.
Witch Doctors is admittedly a bit wordy and could have used some judicious editing. That aside the observations are spot on; the true value of the book is that it helps one see through the hype of the *business* of the modern management business from 40,000 feet. I have never come across anything that turns the microscope around on all of the familiar and sometimes well-meaning perpetraitors (managers themselves, business schools, business press, consultants, speakers) and while the perps may find it harsh at times the book from my standpoint is balanced.
What would have made this really interesting is to hae gone further. Why not involve these same perps in providing feedback when confronted with the realities. There is no accountability for these perps and this book is as close to it as I have seen. The net of the observant business person after reading this book should be, "I have been warned!"
What kind of guru are you anyway?.......2006-09-11
Hold your nose and grit your teeth as John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge take you on a tour through the buzzword ridden world of the modern management guru. Like televangelists, these modern money-grabbing tellers of the future would be laughable were it not for the fact that they influence the course and direction of many of today's businesses. This book should be read anyone in the role of making managerial decisions - to serve as a reminder that bestselling books, catchy catch phrases, and any idea that starts with the word `New' is not a substitute for good old fashioned facts and reasoning.
The best summary on management theory there is.......2004-01-07
Great fun, great wit, great journalism. These guys started off as outsiders but they clearly are top-class journalists: they truly captured all the "strengths, weaknesses, opportunities & threats" that all the true, semi or fake gurus have produced since Taylor, Sloan and Drucker. A must have!
Good overview of the consultancy industry.......2002-11-01
I quite enjoyed this book, except for one or two gripes that I will come to later, and which kept me from awarding it a (much sought-after) fourth star. It provides a good overview of the management consultancy industry, and the rise of management studies to its current status in the business world. I particularly liked the authors' even-handed approach: they give the industry credit where it is due and do not only dwell on the negatives (and I say this as someone who is quite sceptical about the industry at the best of times). By the same token, they do point out the negatives as well, especially the industry's dependency on new fads to sell to clients in order to sustain revenues. I also found the chapters dealing with management styles in the Eastern economies very interesting.
Coming to the gripes, my first one is that the book is slightly too long- I think it could have been a good 50 pages shorter, and a much better read, with more judicious editing. Also, I feel that the authors tried too hard to employ a "chatty" style of writing, and this is sometimes irritating.
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- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
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- Information Systems Today: Why IS Matters (2nd Edition)
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- International Business Law and Its Environment
- International Economics: Theory and Policy (6th Edition)
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