These profiles of the outstanding names in management theory of the 20th-century--including Alfred Sloan, Peter Drucker, and Abraham Maslow--show their influences on business and illustrate major trends, fads, and schools of management.
For readers who loved Composing a Life and Parallel Lives, these five accounts of exceptional women navigating between love and work--including Einstein's wife Mileva Maric, Lee Krasner (wife of Jackson Pollack), and Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor--evoke many of the same dilemmas with which women wrestle today. Line drawings.
Before Americans were learning how to do business from the Japanese, the Japanese were learning from an American--a brilliant iconoclast named W. Edwards Deming, whose Fourteen Point philosophy for managing quality is largely responsible for that country's economic triumph.
Before Americans were learning how to do business from the Japanese, the Japanese were learning from an American--a brilliant iconoclast named W. Edwards Deming, whose Fourteen Point philosophy for managing quality is largely responsible for that country's economic triumph.
Geological processes affect the earth itself and human society. Solutions to geological problems, whether natural or man-made, demand close international collaboration. This book presents new approaches to current problems of environmental assessment, demonstrates the interactions between those involved in addressing global problems, and ...
Inspired by her generation's experiences juggling career and home life, journalist Andrea Gabor set out to define the unique stuff of which great women are made and chart the often tangled territory in which love and ambition intersect. Among the women she profiles are Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, architect and urban planner Denise ...
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