McKinsey's Marvin Bower : Vision, Leadership and the Creation of Management Consulting


Elizabeth Haas. Edersheim
Bok Engelsk 2004 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
Hoboken : : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , 2004.
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1 online resource (321 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - McKinsey's Marvin Bower; Contents; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PART I Translating a Vision into Reality; CHAPTER 1 Marvin Bower; CHAPTER 2 The Vision; CHAPTER 3 The Profession and the Institution; CHAPTER 4 Defining Moments of Leadership and Influence; PART II A Leader's Leader; CHAPTER 5 The Bower Reach; CHAPTER 6 Inspiring Organizational Courage; CHAPTER 7 Educating a Generation of Leaders; AUTHOR'S NOTE; APPENDIX A Timeline; APPENDIX B Brief Biography; APPENDIX C McKinsey & Co. Partners' Conference, 1964; NOTES; LIST OF INTERVIEWEES; INDEX. - The complete, untold story of McKinsey & Co.'s founding fatherThis is the authoritative and insightful account of Marvin Bower, who helped found McKinsey & Co. in 1939 and served as managing director of the firm from 1950 to 1967, and of how Bower, an attorney, took a concept known as industrial engineering and transformed it into what we now know as management consulting. As Dick Cavanagh, now CEO of the Conference Board, said, Bower ""didn't just preach values, he practiced them. . . . He was a teacher as well as a leader.""Elizabeth Haas Edersheim (Pelham Manor, NY) founded New York
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0471652857

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