The Death of Modern Management How to Lead in the New World Disorder

by Owen, Jo

• ISBN13: 9780470682852
• ISBN10: 047068285X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-21
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

We are at the start of a new wave of management. The recent financial crisis highlighted problems not just in the economic system, but also in the way that many companies are governed and managed. Now modern management has reached its end game and we approach a new era in leadership. Rather than the certainties of command and control, this new epoch will be based on co-operation and commitment. There has been a strategic revolution - instead of following the rules, we now have to make them. For some this represents great risk; for others it is an enormous opportunity.The Death of Modern Management is a how-to guide for surviving and thriving amidst the new uncertainties of contemporary business.

Author Biography

Jo Owen is a bestselling business author, leader, social entrepreneur and speaker, who practices what he preaches.

He was the best nappy salesman in Birmingham and put the blue speckle in Daz. He led a business in Japan for three years, has been a partner at Accenture, and was the architect of what is now HBOS business banking. He is the co-founder is four charities: Teach First, which is now one of the UK’s top graduate recruiters, Future Leaders and Teaching Leaders, which develops leaders for urban schools and StartUp, which helps offenders start their own businesses on release from prison.

He is the author of the classic books How to Lead, How to Manage and Tribal Business School.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction How We Got Here and Where We Are Going	p. 1
Strategy: From Following the Rules to Making the Rules	p. 28
Marketing: From Selling Benefits to Selling Dreams	p. 55
Power: Shifts to a New World Disorder	p. 77
Money: From CAPM to the Road to Ruin	p. 99
Information: From Deficit to Hyperinflation	p. 131
Knowledge: From Ignorance to the Disintegration of the Firm	p. 144
Organisations: From Compliance to Commitment	p. 160
Change: Why Dinosaurs Can't Dance	p. 185
Employees: From Slavery to Freedom (and Back Again)	p. 208
Managers: Power and Making Things Happen	p. 223
Leaders: No More Heroes	p. 243
Conclusion	p. 265
Index	p. 268
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