Management Stripped Bare: What They Don't Teach You at Business School

Management Stripped Bare: What They Don't Teach You at Business School

by JoOwen (Author)

Synopsis

This is a book about business as it is - not as it should be. Managers face the same problems the world over - bad meetings, boring presentations, unreasonable expectations, difficult bosses - and somehow, they are meant to make sense of it all. But this isn't taught in business school. In "Management Stripped Bare", Jo Owen draws on his vast experience to present real-life solutions and observations on common management challenges. Each challenge is described, and successful and unsuccessful responses are illustrated with case studies. Punchy, edgy and refreshingly honest, it is entertaining and witty as well as informative. Irreverent and incisive, "Management Stripped Bare" cuts through the usual management hype and rhetoric to reveal what business is really about. It is not a grand theory of management, but a practical guide to survival in the real world.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 183
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Kogan Page
Published: 03 Apr 2006

ISBN 10: 0749446676
ISBN 13: 9780749446673
Book Overview: The Sunday Times Business book of the week and Book of the Month at WH Smith Not just another management book but The alternative management classic 'Controversial...a sight more readable than most management textbooks.' The Times 'Owen has seen some rum things and most of them turn up in this book...the comments are spot on.' The Sunday Times 'Witty, scathing and informative...refreshing, insightful and genuinely funny...excellent and well worth the money' Personnel Today

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Controversial...a sight more readable than most management textbooks. - The Times Owen has seen some rum things and most of them turn up in this book....the comments are spot on. - The Sunday Times Witty, scathing and informative.....refreshing, insightful and genuinely funny....excellent and well worth the money. - Personnel Today
Author Bio
Jo Owen speaks from the experience of working with over eighty of the world's best, and one or two of the world's worst, organisations. He is a founder of Teach First, one of the top twenty graduate recruiters in the UK. He also started a bank, now HBOS business banking. He was a partner at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and at Cap Gemini. He built a business in Japan and has worked across Asia, Europe and North Africa in most industries. He is currently researching survival and success in corporate and tribal worlds, including groups in Papua New Guinea, Mongolia, the Sahara and West and East Africa. A frequent speaker on leadership, his other books include Hard Core Management (also published byKogan Page) and How to Lead.