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Description: 28 Business Thinkers Who Changed the World is a guide to the people who have fundamentally reshaped their industries and the way we do business today. Some of these game changers are great intellectuals while others are'gut instinct'types; some are motivated by desire to change the world, while others are driven by money and power. Bursting with energy and wit, Rhymer Rigby profiles the top business brains of our time to show you the humans behind the headlines and how they changed the global business landscape. From Oprah to Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Drucker to Steve Jobs, find out how they made it, the risks they took and the legacies they leave behind.

Contents

Foreword
PART ONE: SELF-MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 1 TIME MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 2 SETTING AND ACHIEVING GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
CHAPTER 3 DECISION-MAKING AND PROBLEM-SOLVING
CHAPTER 4 CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION
CHAPTER 5 PART 1: PERSONAL REMINDERS AND THOUGHTS WORTH THINKING
PART TWO: MANAGING OTHERS
CHAPTER 6 LEADERSHIP AND TEAMBUILDING
CHAPTER 7 MOTIVATION AND PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 8 COMMUNICATION AND PRESENTATION
CHAPTER 9 PART 2: PERSONAL REMINDERS AND THOUGHTS WORTH THINKING

Description: “The behavioral economy is an applied discipline which involves the scientific study of economic behavior, communication, organization culture, leadership and management and Dr. De Silva analyses these topics with the help of brain science and brings a fresh knowledge to the academia as well as to the field of economics. A must read book for every economic student and one all libraries must have in their shelves.” - Professor Verdiana Masanja, University of Rowanda

Contents

Part I: Something’s Has to Give
Chapter 1: Who Are You Listening To?
Chapter 2: Change Is a Choice
Chapter 3: Rearranging the Chairs on the Titanic
Chapter 4: Reinvention
Chapter 5: Every Innovative Business Has a Great Story
Chapter 6: and We Keep Hitting the Snooze Button
Chapter 7: The World Is on Fire
Chapter 8: Our Civilization Is a Pyramid Scheme
Chapter 9: Five Bright Lights
Part II: Seven-Step Challenge
Step 1: Do Whatever It Takes to Exceed Expectations
Step 2: Commit to Daily Measurable Improvement
Step 3: Develop an Accountability Matrix
Step 4: Reinvigorate Your Organization Through Multidimensional Thinking
Step 5: Create a Culture of Shared Sacrifice
Step 6: Transform Your Business Philosophy to a Triple Bottom Line
Step 7: Dedicate Yourself to a Lifetime of Making a Difference
30-Day Pledge
Now Is the Time

Contents

Part One: Legends and Gurus
Chapter 1: JACK WELCH
Chapter 2: JOHN C. BOGLE
Chapter 3: PETER LYNCH
Chapter 4: BILL GROSS
Chapter 5: WILLIAM O’NEIL
Chapter 7: MOHAMED EL-ERIAN
chapter 8: ROBERT PRECHTER
Part Two: Chief Executives
Chapter 9: ARTHUR BLANK
Chapter 10: DAVID NOVAK
Chapter 11: DR. BILL FRIST
Chapter 12: BARBARA CORCORAN
Chapter 13: STEVE FORBES
Chapter 14: DANNY WEGMAN
Chapter 15: GARY GOLDBERG
Chapter 16: JERRY LEVIN
Chapter 17: R. J. KIRK
Part Three: The Next Generation
Chapter 18: MEREDITH WHITNEY
Chapter 19: JASON KILAR
Chapter 20: IAN BREMMER
Chapter 21: JIM BUCKMASTER
Chapter 22: JOHN CAPPELLETTI
Part Four: Personalities
Chapter 23: SUZE ORMAN
Chapter 24: JIM CRAMER
Chapter 25: MARK CUBAN
Chapter 26: BEN STEIN
Chapter 27: ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Chapter 28: HERB GREENBERG
Chapter 29: ARTHUR LAFFER
Chapter 30: DAVE RAMSEY
Conclusion

CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: The Fierce Competitor Company
CHAPTER 2: Bad Times Are Good Times
CHAPTER 3: Hustle. Hustle. Hustle.
CHAPTER 4: Leadership Is Not ‘‘Pushership’’
CHAPTER 5: The Difference Between Leaders and Managers
CHAPTER 6: Know Your Company’s Raison d’Etre
CHAPTER 7: Manage As You Would Invest
CHAPTER 8: ‘‘I Visit Customers in Stores’’
CHAPTER 9: Always Answer the Phone
CHAPTER 10: Pile Up Cash
CHAPTER 11: Be Ever Fearful
CHAPTER 12: Show Fearlessness
CHAPTER 13: Play ‘‘What If?’’ Games
CHAPTER 14: Leadership Is Full Disclosure
CHAPTER 15: Get a Kitchen Cabinet
CHAPTER 16: Always Have a Plan
CHAPTER 17: Stay Off Magazine Covers
CHAPTER 18: ‘‘I Never Made a Dime Talking’’
CHAPTER 19: Never Take Your Hand Off the Tiller
CHAPTER 20: Control or Roll
CHAPTER 21: Get Out of the Office
CHAPTER 22: Walk Around the Company
CHAPTER 23: Never Forget the Third Shift
CHAPTER 24: Be Obsessive About Execution
CHAPTER 25: Get Rid of Executive Parking Spaces
CHAPTER 26: Fight Unionization
CHAPTER 27: People Are Not the Most Important Asset
CHAPTER 28: Nurture Those You Hire and Acquire
CHAPTER 29: Prune All Deadwood
CHAPTER 30: Bulldoze All Silos
CHAPTER 31: Broom Out All Bureaucracy
CHAPTER 32: Scoop Up Newly Available Talent
CHAPTER 33: Forget About Pedigrees
CHAPTER 34: Pay for Performance, Not for Activities
CHAPTER 35: Continuously Rip Out, Tear Out Bad Costs
CHAPTER 36: The Do and Don’t Cut List
CHAPTER 37: Forget Monthly Reports
CHAPTER 38: No Money, No Meeting
CHAPTER 39: Be Fanatical About Selling
CHAPTER 40: Don’t Fire Sales People
CHAPTER 41: Hire Fiercely Competitive Sales People
CHAPTER 42: Banish All Selling Thieves
CHAPTER 43: Always Conduct Daily Sales Meetings
CHAPTER 44: The Big Opportunity
CHAPTER 45: Never Cancel Batting Practice
CHAPTER 46: Double the Training Budget
CHAPTER 47: Love That Cranky, Fickle, Demanding Customer
CHAPTER 48: Fire the ‘‘Strategic Customer’’
CHAPTER 49: Customer Service Is a Survival Strategy
CHAPTER 50: Worship at the Altar of Quality
CHAPTER 51: Get Rid of ‘‘Mr. Ought-to-Be’’
CHAPTER 52: Always Leave Flowers, Floor Mats, and Footprints
CHAPTER 53: Don’t Cut Prices
CHAPTER 54: You Are Never on Vacation
CHAPTER 55: Lock, Load, and Launch
CHAPTER 56: Sue the Blankety-Blanks
CHAPTER 57: Welcome Serendipity
CHAPTER 58: Go Green!
CHAPTER 59: Be a Master Gardener
CHAPTER 60: Summary: Characteristics of the Fierce Competitor Companies

Contents
One - Effective Management Philosophy: The Rationale
Two - The Power of Anticipation
Three - When you can’t Anticipate Well, you must React on Time
Four - Some Crucial Inputs for Running the Organization
Five - Analysis, the Groundwork for Good Decision-Making
Six - Branding: Is it all about Good Business Acumen?
Seven - Some Stray Thoughts on Effective Management Practice
Eight - Epilogue

Contents
Part I Management
Chapter 1 Planning
Chapter 2 Workforce
Chapter 3 Money
Chapter 4 Methods
Chapter 5 Directing
Chapter 6 Controls
Part II Marketing
Chapter 7 Products and Services
Chapter 8 Promotion
Chapter 9 Pricing
Chapter 10 Place
Chapter 11 The Successful Business

Contents

Introductory Topics
1. Entering the Intelligence Era
2. The New Paradigm
3. Fundamentals of Intelligent Organization Theory
4. Intelligent Biotic and Complex Adaptive Structure of Human Organization
Specialized Topics
5. The Human Thinking System
6. Basic Intelligence Evolutionary Dynamic and the Intelligent Person Model
7. Artificial Intelligent Information Systems Network
8. Interdependency: The Integrated 3C-OK Framework and the Higher Level Intelligence Dynamic
9. Paper Dialogue: An Effective Methodology for Nurturing Collective Intelligence
Concluding Topics
10. Intelligence Leadership and Intelligence Management Theory
11. Towards a Higher Order of Existence
Hide Level Additional/Supportive Information
Appendix 1: Introduction to Chaos
Appendix 2: Introduction to CAS and Complexity Theory
Appendix 3: Gaia, Human Beings and the Brain’s Evolution
Appendix 4: Intelligence Management, Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning
Appendix 5: Basic Characteristics of Dialogue
Appendix 6: Some CAS Research Institutions
Appendix 7: One Hundred Prominent Complexity/ CAS Researchers/Contributors

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Business Plan
Chapter 2 - Competitor Analysis and Market Analysis
Chapter 3 - Marketing Plan
Chapter 4 - Strategic Planning
Chapter 5 - Operational Plan
Chapter 6 - Supply Chain Management
Chapter 7 - Risk Analysis & Risk Management

Table of Contents
Part I: Motivations and Foundations
Chapter 1: Quantitative Methods: Should We Bother?
Chapter 2: Calculus
Chapter 3: Linear Algebra
Part II: Elementary Probability and Statistics
Chapter 4: Descriptive Statistics: On the Way to Elementary Probability
Chapter 5: Probability Theories
Chapter 6: Discrete Random Variables
Chapter 7: Continuous Random Variables
Chapter 8: Dependence, Correlation, and Conditional Expectation
Chapter 9: Inferential Statistics
Chapter 10: Simple Linear Regression
Chapter 11: Inferential Statistics
Part III: Models for Decision Making
Chapter 12: Deterministic Decision Models
Chapter 13: Decision Making Under Risk
Chapter 14: Multiple Decision Makers, Subjective Probability, and Other Wild Beasts
Part IV: Advanced Statistical Modeling
Chapter 15: Introduction to Multivariate Analysis
Chapter 16: Advanced Regression Models
Chapter 17: Dealing with Complexity: Data Reduction and Clustering

Description: What is the objective or purpose of business Management? According to the dominant theory of contemporary financial management scholarship, agency theory, business managers are obligated to maximise owner or shareholder value. According to most theories of business ethics, however, some owner-value-maximising actions should not be performed, because they would be unethical. Because business management scholars and business ethics scholars have not resolved this contradiction, students of commerce receive a contradictory education. The twenty-five essays in this interdisciplinary, international volume address the question of the objective or purpose of business management from a wide range of theoretical perspectives. Since some of the writers contradict one another, it is not possible that all of them are correct. Nevertheless, the fact that many of them argue persuasively that business managers should aspire to more than maximisation of a financial variable challenges everyone with a theoretical or practical interest in commerce to reconsider acceptance of the owner-value paradigm and to develop a richer conception of the profession of business management.

Contents

Chapter 1: Shareholders as Partners
Chapter 2: Corporate Culture
Chapter 3: Corporate Governance
Chapter 4: Berkshire Managers
Chapter 5: Communication
Chapter 6: Acquisition of Nebraska Furniture Mart
Chapter 7: Acquisition of GEICO
Chapter 8: Acquisition of General Reinsurance
Chapter 9: The Assessment and Management of Risk
Chapter 10: Executive Compensation
Chapter 11: Time Management
Chapter 12: How to Manage a Crisis
Chapter 13: Management Principles and Practices
Chapter 14: Executive Behavior
Chapter 15: Mistakes I’ve Made
Chapter 16: Personal Investing
Chapter 17: Buffett, the Teacher
Chapter 18: Humor and Stories