Sumantra Ghoshal on Management : A Force for Good
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
Sumantra Ghoshal on Management represents Ghoshal's twenty-year intellectual odyssey to challenge the underpinnings of management thought; to expose, rework and replace the foundation stones of management thinking. Exploring his key ideas, and reflecting his genius for collaboration along the way, this book shows how he had become a force for good in the world of management.
"This book celebrates a great mind, a great spirit, and a dear friend."
Henry Mintzberg
"Sumantra Ghoshal was one of a small handful of management thinkers who could speak with equal authority to the world of business and the world of academia. His ideas were challenging, insightful and often heretical, and his impact on the field of management was profound. This book captures the essence of Sumantra's work as well as his more recent ideas about the deep challenges facing management theory.”
Laura Tyson, Dean, LondonBusinessSchool
"Sumantra Ghoshal was one of the past quarter century's most original and creative researchers in the field of management practice. This collection is a valuable resource that presents a challenging, yet cohesive, set of ideas that are testament to his importance as a provocatively original thinker in a world too often characterized by conventional wisdom and conformity."
Christopher A. Bartlett, Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, HarvardBusinessSchool
"Sumantra Ghoshal changed the way we understand organizations and the people who populate them. In March 2004 he passed away in the midst of creating a sustained argument about the role of purpose in organizations and the nature of human goodness. This important book captures the highlights of a lifetime of work and creates a foundation from which scholars and practicing managers can craft their own purpose."
Professor Lynda Gratton, LondonBusinessSchool
"Few who came into contact with the ideas of the late Sumantra Ghoshal
were unmoved by them. The extraordinary range and depth of the
material in this book stands not just as an essential memorial to a
brilliant thinker but even more importantly as an inspiration to take
up the challenge he left behind: that of creating a better theory and
practice of management, in all senses of the term."
Simon Caulkin, Management Editor, The Observer
“Ghoshal, a management guru, was not just a man of boundless energy and inventiveness; he also married the theoretical and the pragmatic in a way that is rare in the world of management literature.”
The Economist
“Sumantra Ghoshal was a brilliant and original thinker in a field that needs more of them. He used his intellect to understand organizations and to help managers to make them better places to work and greater forces for good”
The Guardian
About the Author
Julian Birkinshaw, LBS lecturer and author of several books on leadership, entrepreneurship, and the effects of globalisation on corporate organization. Recent title, Leadership the Sven-Goran Erikksonn Way.
Dr Gita Piramal is the Managing Editor of The Smart Manager, India's first world class management magazine. Gita is also India's foremost business writer and business historian. A former journalist, she has worked with several leading publications world wide, but mostly with UK's Financial Times and India's Economic Times.She has written or contributed chapters to nine books, including Business Maharajas, Business Legends, Managing Radical Change and World Class in India. Each of her books have promptly shot into the best seller list. Gita recently received the Business Today Award for being one of India's 25 most powerful women in 2004. She also received the Scholar of the Year 2004 award from Ness Wadia College, Pune
Sumantra Ghoshal on Management : A Force for Good,Julian Birkinshaw,Gita Piramal,Financial Times Prentice Hall,0273701835,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,International business enterprises,Management,Management - General,Organization,Organizational Behavior,Strategic Planning,Business & Economics / Systems & Planning
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