1st Edition

Management Crisis and Business Revolution

Edited By John Harte Copyright 1997
    478 Pages
    by Routledge

    478 Pages
    by Routledge

    Formerly a top operational manager with multinational organizations, John Harte applies his hands-on knowledge of the business world to provide a realistic examination of workplace and marketplace conditions. In place of reasoned management and disciplined organization, Harte depicts daily distractions, disorder, vagueness, and confusion. Instead of the logical processes described in classroom case histories with rational solutions, he provides tales of an abundance of irrational judgments, personal foibles, and business follies.

    Harte has witnessed the demise of many companies—some of which, in his opinion, could have been saved. With over thirty years' experience to draw on, he analyzes why so many businesses and products fail, when others succeed. He examines the amazing progress of Japan and other Pacific Asian countries; explains the decline of German, Canadian, British, and French management practices; and provides strategies for top management and the marketplace.

    The business sectors described in this all-encompassing book include: high-technology; fast-moving packaged consumer goods; manufacturing and retailing consumer durables soft goods; fashion products; service sector industries; manufacturing, wholesaling, and retail trade; and a whole range of new service industries. His unusually tough-minded view will benefit business entrepreneurs, managers, and executives, as well as those interested in the study of business and marketing.

    Preface to the Paperback Edition
    Foreword
    Introduction: The Management Jungle

    Part I: Principles

    1. The Marketing Evolution
    2. Innovation—The Key to the Future
    3. The Killing Fields
    4. Disposition of Forces
    5. Satisfying Customers
    6. Planning for Survival and Growth
    7. Right Attitude
    8. What Motivates People

    Part II: Practices

    9. The Power of Words
    10. Human Limitations
    11. Leadership and Management Styles
    12. Responding to Challenges
    13. Picking Winners
    14. Oiling the Works
    15. Hiring the Best Brains
    16. Dynamics of Change

    Appendix
    Notes
    Index

    Biography

    John Harte