The Witch Doctors

In the first critical assessment of the management gurus, The Witch Doctors dissect the management-theory phenomen.

• What are the ideas that could help your company?
• All you ever really need to learn from Tom Peters, Peter Drucker and Charles Handy
• Why management theory has produced the contradictory corporation
• The management theory industry
• How to manage knowledge
• The charms of globalisation?
• Can management be applied to the public sector?
• What can we still learn from Japan ― and from the emerging Asian economies?
• Can management theory really help your business?
  

• Introduction: The World of the Witch Doctors
• Part One; How It Works
1. The Fad in Progress: Re-engineering
2. The Management Theory Industry
• Part Two: Prophet and Evangelist
3. Peter Drucker: The Guru's Guru
4. Tom Peters: Management as Performance Art
• Part Three: The Great Debates
5. Rethinking the Company
6. Knowledge, Learning and Innovation
7. Strategy: From Planning to Vision
8. Storm in the Boardroom
9. The Future of Work
• Part Four: The World in Their Hands
10. What does Globalisation Mean?
11. The Art of Japanese Management
12. A New Model in Asia?
• Part Five: New Frontiers
13. Managing Leviathan: The Public Sector
14. A Walk on the Wild Side
• Conclusion: An Immature Discipline
  

If you want a very thorough and from time to time funny overview of management theory and strategy, this is the book for you. A top ten book for everybody.