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5 Books to Read During COVID-19
by Stu Goldblatt | Category: Book Review
Posted on March 23, 2020 at 02:13:28 PM
The Age of UnreasonCharles HandyHandy maintains that discontinuous change requires discontinuous, upside-down thinking, and discusses the need for new kinds of organizations, new approaches to work, new types of schools, and new ideas about the nature of our society.The Motivation to WorkFrederick HerzbergFrederick Herzberg and his staff based their motivation―hygiene theory on a variety of human needs and applied it to a strategy of job enrichment that has widely influenced motivation and job design strategies. 'Motivation to Work' is a landmark volume that is of enduring interest to sociologists, psychologists, labor studies specialists, and organization analysts.Primer on Decision Making: How Decisions HappenJames MarchThis valuable textbook by one of the seminal figures in the history of organizational decision making will be required reading for a new generation of scholars, managers, and other decision makers.The Change MastersRosabeth Moss KanterThe Change Masters looks behind...
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Six Books to Add to Your Audible List
by Stu Goldblatt | Category: Book Review
Posted on February 27, 2020 at 02:45:11 PM
Strategy and StructureAlfred ChandlerChandler shows how the seventy largest corporations in America have dealth with a single economic problem: the effective administration of an expanding business. The author summarizes the history of the expansion of the nation's largest industries during the previous hundred years and then examines in depth the modern decentralized corporate structure as it was developed independently by four companies--General Motors, Dupont, Standard Oil of New Jersey and Sears, Roebuck.Out of CrisisW. Edwards DemingIn Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management's failure to plan for the future, he claims, brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of jobs. Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but by innovative plans to stay in business, protect investment, ensure future dividends, and provide more jobs through improved product and service....
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5 Books to Jumpstart your Business Goals
by Stu Goldblatt | Category: Book Review
Posted on February 07, 2020 at 07:50:08 PM
A Business and Its Beliefs: The Ideas That Helped Build IBMThomas Watson Jr.This newly published edition reintroduces Watson's ideas to a new generation of decision-makers in search of IBM-style standards for their own organizations. A to-the-point examination of the values and beliefs that built and sustained IBM, its message is as valuable today as it was four decades back--and will once again strike a resounding chord with executives everywhere.The Theory of Social and Economic OrganizationMax WeberThis volume contains a full and representative statement of Max Weber's sociological theory, drawn from important publications never previously translated. The book opens with a discussion of the analytical methods of sociology and an application of these methodological conclusions to the broadest classification of social relationships and groups. Nearly half the volume is devoted to a further elaboration of this scheme in the field of economic activity. The typology is copiously illustrated...
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