Some deal with pragmatic problem solving, others with more personal challenges. “The history of business is thus the story of entrepreneurs, executives, leaders, and employees, lurching from one experimental answer to another,” write the authors. “The entire history of management ideas can be seen as a series of answers to a few pragmatic queries.” Checking out the facts, answers and methods they have collected is a lot faster – and also more fun – than to read an entire library on management theory.

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