Managing Performing Living

Effective Management for a New World

Fredmund Malik

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Fredmund Malik, Managing Performing Living (2015), Campus Frankfurt / New York, 60486 Frankfurt/Main, ISBN: 9783593429748

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Prof. Fredmund Malik numbers among Europe's leading mangement thinkers. He is head of Management Zentrum St. Gallen, management training and consulting firm that maintains offices in St. Gallen, Zurich, London, Vienna, Toronto and Shanghai, and has roughly 220 employees.

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Whatever Fredmund Malik writes, carries weight. This book provides everything you need to know about effective management and day-to-day executive life - in terms that are concrete, practical and productive. The author answers the question of how executives can operate effectively and successfully and accomplish their organizational objectives. Now a classic among economics texts, this book contains the essential know-how for managers in both profit and not-for-profit sectors.

Table of content

  • BEGINN
  • Managing – Performing – Living
  • Table of Content
  • Preface to the New 2014 Edition
  • Introduction: Right Thinking†”Right Management
  • The Key to Success
  • The Great Transformation 21
  • How Effective Management Systems Are Built
  • What Right Management Can Accomplish
  • Part I: Professionalism
  • Chapter 1: The Ideal Manager†”A Wrong Question
  • Chapter 2: False Theories, Errors, and Misconceptions
  • Chapter 3: Management as a Profession
  • Part II: Principles of Effective Management
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Focusing on Results
  • Chapter 2: Contribution to the World
  • Chapter 3: Concentration on a Few Things
  • Chapter 4: Utilizing Strengths
  • Chapter 5: Trust
  • Chapter 6: Positive Thinking
  • Chapter 7: Synopsis: Quality of Management
  • Part III: Tasks of Effective Management
  • Preliminary Remarks
  • Chapter 1: Providing Objectives
  • Chapter 2: Organizing
  • Chapter 3: Making Decisions
  • Chapter 4: Supervising
  • Chapter 5: Developing and Promoting People
  • Chapter 6: Synopsis: What About All the Other Tasks?
  • Part IV: Tools For Effective Management
  • Instruments, Devices, Tools
  • Chapter 1: Meeting
  • Chapter 2: Reports
  • Chapter 3: Job Design and Assignment Control
  • Chapter 4: Personal Working Methods
  • Chapter 5: Budgets and Budgeting
  • Chapter 6: Performance Evaluations
  • Chapter 7: Systematic "Waste Disposal"†”Renewing the System
  • Chapter 8: Synopsis: An Acid Test For Professionalism
  • Part V: Management System: A Thinking and Acting System
  • Chapter 1: From an Art to a Profession
  • Chapter 2: Understanding and Applying Right Management
  • Chapter 3: Standard Model of Effectiveness: The Management Wheel
  • Chapter 4: How to Generate Self-Regulation and Self-Organization
  • Outlook: Right and Good Management for a Functioning Society
  • Effectiveness and the Experience of Meaning
  • Responsibility and Ethics
  • Epilog
  • Glossary
  • Complexity
  • Controlling, Regulating, Steering
  • Creative Destruction
  • Cybernetics
  • Cybernetic Management or Management Cybernetics
  • Cybernetic Organization and Self-Organization
  • Cybernetic Ground Rule for Self-Organization
  • Effectiveness and Efficiency
  • Functioning
  • Great Transformation 21
  • Institution, Organization
  • Management
  • Management as a Function, Functional Dimension
  • Management as an Organ, Institutional Dimension
  • Management as a Group of People, Personal Dimension
  • Management and Control
  • Management and Leadership
  • Right and Good Management
  • Managing Organizations†”Managing People
  • Old World and New World
  • Society of Organizations, Organized Society
  • System
  • System, Model, Concept
  • System, Having or Being a --
  • Systemics, Content, Form
  • Endnotes
  • References
  • Index

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