Giant Steps In Management
28 Nov 07

 “We have looked at what key management innovators like Henry Ford, Alfred Sloan, Pierre Wack and many others did and said, why these innovations proved to have lasting value and what they mean for today’s practice. Our conclusion is that you discount history only at your peril. We would much rather learn from it.”
Michael Mol & Julian Birkinshaw/

To ensure their future success it is crucial for companies to get their management innovation process right. So managers are always trying new things and different approaches.  There are management innovations underway all the time in large organisations. Many fail. Some work. A few make history. The most valuable ones are picked up and absorbed across entire industries and countries.  These are the ones this book will tell you about.

Giant Steps in Management will help managers create tomorrow’s best practice today, through lessons learned yesterday.  It presents a thought provoking selection of the 50 most important management innovations of the last 150 years and describes the impact they have had on management today. Some of the innovations will be familiar to you; others will be new, different, surprising. Together, they form a fascinating compendium of the ideas, techniques and practices that have rocked the world of management.

An outstanding overview of the management practice landscape, Giant Steps in Management provides invaluable insights for organisations seeking better performance. It also delivers the new management tools and techniques that will help managers’ businesses evolve and successfully compete.

Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice, London Business School commented that: ‘As this book so powerfully shows, management innovation is a secret weapon in the search for competitive advantage.  This book will surprise, inform and inspire any manager who believes that they need to innovate the way they manage.”

	Giant Steps in Management
	Author	Julian Birkinshaw, Michael Mol
	Pub Date	25 Oct 2007
	Price	£22.99
	Publisher	Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
	ISBN10	0273712926
	ISBN13	9780273712923
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