Business: The Ultimate Resource - Hardcover

Perseus Publishing, Editors Of; Perseus Publishing; Goleman, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0738202428 ISBN 13: 9780738202426

Publisher: Basic Books, 2002

Synopsis

The gold standard of business information for the twenty-first century, Business will also be a source of inspiration and insight, with original essays from more than 150 world-renowned business thinkers, leaders, academics, and practitioners such as Charles Handy, Warren Bennis, Jim Collins, Thomas Petzinger, Jr., Peter L. Bernstein, and John Seely Brown. Unprecedented in scope (2.5 million words, 2,200 pages), Business covers all significant intellectual, practical, and factual areas in the field of management. A major feature of Business is an authoritative world almanac featuring 26 industry sector surveys and profiles of 150 countries and all U.S. states. Lively biographies of the management thinkers who have shaped the world as we know it-from Adam Smith to Peter Drucker, from Henry Ford to Estée Lauder-will inform and entertain, while digests of the 70 most influential business books ever published are certain to spark debate. In addition, Business includes a comprehensive dictionary, an anthology of quotations, and an extensive source section covering nearly 200 topics from accounting to team building.Guided by an eminent team of editors and advisors, Business equips everyone who works with the tools necessary to learn from yesterday and prepare for tomorrow.Business is the first-ever comprehensive resource on business and management. A remarkable compendium of lively essays, inspiring biographies, and impressive source materials, Business features the following:Original Best-Practice Essays from 150 of Today's Thought LeadersFascinating Profiles of Top Management Thinkers and PioneersA Management Library-The 70 Most Important Business Books of All TimeIndispensable Management Checklists and Action ListsFirst-Class World Business AlmanacComprehensive Dictionary of 5,000 Business TermsBusiness Information Sources -Where to Go from HereVisit www.ultimatebusinessresource.com

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From the Publisher:

CONTRIBUTORS include:

Karl Albrecht, Keith Alexander, David Allen, Christopher Bartlett, Peter Bebb, R. Meredith Belbin, Chip R. Bell, Warren Bennis, Peter Bernstein, Drayton Bird, Don Blohowiak, Steve Bone, George Percy Boulden, R. Brayton Bowen, William Bridges, Mark Brown, Peter Brown, Tom Brown, Matthew Budman, Robert Buttrick, Sir Adrian Cadbury, Susan Cartwright, John Case, James Champy, Debashis Chatterjee, Cary Cherniss, Subir Chowdhury, Stewart Clegg, Peter Cohan, Jim Collins, Cary Cooper, Robert Cooper, Anne Covey, Stuart Crainer, Mike Cunningham, Tom Davenport, Stan Davis, Charles R. Day Jr., Dinna Dayao, Edward de Bono, Michael de Kare Silver, Sir Peter de la Billiere, Des Dearlove, Donryn Dewar, Alan Downs, Scott J. Edgett, Leif Edvinsson, John Elkington, Melanie Ellis, Marc J. Epstein, Liam Fahey, Martha Finney, John Fisher, Patrick Forsyth, Robin Fraser, John Frazer-Robinson, Mike Freedman, Robert Fritz, Sumantra Ghoshal, Jerry Gilley, Jules Goddard, Beverly Goldberg, Daniel Goleman, Edward E. Gordon, Michael Griggs, Jim 'Gus' Gustafson, Cliff Hakim, Katherine Hammer, Michael Hammer, Richard Handscombe, Charles Handy, Oren Harari, Sir John Harvey-Jones, Robert Heller, Antoine Hermens, Chris Hoenig, Jeremy Hope, Maria-Therese Hoppe, Masaaki Imai, Bill Jensen, Daniel Jones, Sharon Jordan-Evans, Robert Kaplan, Beverly Kaye, Lucy Kellaway, Allan A. Kennedy, Debbe Kennedy, Maggie Kennedy, Peter Killing, Karin Klenke, Leslie L. Kossoff, Philip Kotler, Thomas Koulopoulos, Jim Kouzes, Andrew Lambert, Max Landsberg, Jean-Claude Larréché, Rick Lash, David Lawton, Robert S. Leaf, Richard Leider, Andrew Leigh, Peter Leyden, Bernard Lietaer, Christopher Locke, David H. Maister, Dorothy Marcic, John Mariotti, Steve Markwell, Ryan Mathews, Ann Maycunich, Michael Maynard, Andrew Mayo, Malcolm McDonald, Gerry McGovern, Ronan McIvor, Regis McKenna, Chris Meyer, Henry Mintzberg, Ian Mitroff, Geoffrey Moore, Michael Morris, David Morrison, Geoffrey Mott, Kenneth L. Murrell, Judith Neal, Sue Newell, John Nirenberg, Bob Norton, David Norton, Wally Olins, Hugh Parker, Perry Pascarella, Louis Patler, Tom Petzinger, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Gifford Pinchot, B. Joseph Pine, Salvador Porras, Colin Price, Jeffrey Rayport, Kathleen Reardon, John Reh, Dick Richards, Jonas Ridderstråle, Al Ries, Laura Ries, Gill Ringland, Alan Rugman, Philip Sadler, David Sadtler, James Schrager, Peter Schwartz, John Seely Brown, Jane Galloway Seiling, Patricia Seybold, Adrian Slywotzky, John Smythe, Paul Spenley, David Stauffer, Erik Stern, Thomas Stewart, Paul Stobart, Paul Stoltz, Florence Stone, Merlin Stone, Robert Sutton, Don Tapscott, Noel Tichy, Dan Tobin, Robert Tomasko, Fons Trompenaars, Jim Underwood, Christopher Voss, Watts Wacker, David Weinberger, John Wells, Meg Wheatley, Richard Whitely, Priscilla Wisner, Leslie Yerkes, Ron Zemke, Danah Zohar

About the Author:

Business features original essays and interviews by nearly 200 of the world's top practitioners, thought leaders, and academics, including Dr. Karl Albrecht, Keith Alexander, and David Allen. It is their contribution to this comprehensive volume that collectively illuminates the state-of-the-art in business thinking and practice today.

Internationally best-selling author Daniel Goleman, the spokesperson for Business, will be at the center of an ambitious national publicity campaign. A member of the project's Advisory Board, Dr. Goleman has also contributed an essay in the best-practice section as well as the general introduction to the book. Dr. Goleman consults internationally and lectures frequently to business audiences, professional organizations, and student groups. He is CEO of Emotional Intelligence Services, an affiliate of the Hay Group, and the author of Emotional Intelligence and Working with Emotional Intelligence and the co-author of Primal Leadership.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0738202428
• ISBN 13: 9780738202426
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 2208