Townsend, Robert. 1920-
Further up the organization / Robert Townsend. - First edition. - New York : Knopf, c1984. - xxi, 254 pages : 22 cm
Contents: 1 Accounting and reporting -- 2 Acquisitions I: how to pick'em -- 3 Acquisitions II: Lock up the lawyers -- 4 Acquisitions III: Bad/good -- 5 Advertising -- 6 Advice to mba's -- 7 Alphabetical order -- 8 Assistants-to and make-working -- 9 Big Labor unions: sounds of the dying dinosaur -- 10 Big wheels in little companies -- 11 Boss, how to retire the -- 12 Brevity -- 13 Budgets -- 14 Business lunch -- 15 Call yourself up -- 16 Ceo: picking the best man for the job -- 17 Chairman of the executive committee -- 18 Chinese water drop report -- 19 Compromise and king solomon -- 20 Computers and their priests -- 21 Computer-in-a-briefcase: preliminary report -- 22 Conflict within the organization -- 23 Consultants: real managers don't need them -- 24 Contacts -- 25 Controllers and accounting -- 26 Conviction vs. ego -- 27 Corporate image -- 28 Decisions -- 29 Delegation of authority I -- 30 Delegation of authority II: how to grow a hot department -- 31 Directors, board of: the back-seat drivers -- 32 Disobedience and its necessity -- 33 Do it now -- 34 Ejaculation, premature -- 35 Employment contracts and why not -- 36 Encourage treason -- 37 Engineers: they can be part of the problem too -- 38 Epaulets for the chief executive -- 39 Excellence-or, what the hell are you doing here? -- 40 Excuses -- 41 Expense accounts: theory x disease -- 42 Fads in management: why do they flop? -- 43 Fairness, justice, and other oddities -- 44 Family baggage -- 45 Feedback: tell them everything -- 46 Firing people -- 47 Geography, respect for -- 48 Getting better by getting smaller -- 49 Gifts from suppliers -- 50 Going a little bit public -- 51 Growth -- 52 Harvard business school -- 53 Headhunters -- 54 Hiring: choosing from the short list -- 55 Hubris, the sin of -- 56 Incentive compensation and profit sharing -- 57 Indirection: don't neglect it -- 58 Industrial relations: fire this whole department -- 59 Institutions, on not becoming an -- 60 Investment bankers -- 61 Inventors: keeping them informed -- 62 Japanese management -- 63 Job descriptions-straitjackets -- 64 Keeping in touch -- 65 Killing things, v.p. in charge of -- 66 Labor unions -- 67 Lawyers can be liabilities -- 68 Leadership -- 69 Low cost = low staff -- 70 Management and "top" management -- 71 Management consultants -- 72 Marketing -- 73 Mars, man from -- 74 Meetings -- 75 Memorandum, the last -- 76 Mercy misplaced -- 77 Mergers, conglobulations, and joint failures -- 78 Message to chief executives -- 79 Mistakes -- 80 Mistresses -- 81 Moonlighting -- 82 Moving the head office -- 83 Nepotism, the smell of -- 84 No-no's -- 85 Objectives -- 86 Office party, how not to do the annual -- 87 Organization charts: rigor mortis -- 88 paper tigers -- 89 Participative management: do you really have an enlightened company? -- 90 People -- 91 Personnel (people vs.) -- 92 Planning, long-range: a happening -- 93 Polaroid power -- 94 Policy manuals -- 95 Policy manuals: a vignette -- 96 P.R. department, abolition of -- 97 President's salary (is he really worth $750,000?) -- 98 Promises -- 99 Promotion, from within -- 100 Public accountants and the audit committee -- 101 Purchasing department -- 102 Putting on weight -- 103 Racism -- 104 Reorganizing -- 105 Retirement, mandatory -- 106 Sabbaticals: staying fresh -- 107 Salary review: annual encounter group -- 108 salesmen -- 109 scanlon plan -- 110 Secrecy: a child's garden of diseases -- 111 Secretary, freedom from a -- 112 Small business, starting a -- 113 Small companies -- 114 Staff services (Steno pool) -- 115 Start-up: clean the blackboard -- 116 Stockholders -- 117 Suggestion boxes: make them into birdhouses -- 118 Tax advice -- 119 Teams, two-man-good and bad -- 120 Telephone operators -- 121 Thanks -- 122 Time: Three thoughts on it -- 123 Time to fire the chief executive officer?-a test for the board of directors -- 14 Titles are handy tools -- 115 Too much vs. too little -- 126 Training -- 127 Turnaround -- 128 Underpaid -- 129 Vacation policy: go when you please -- 130 Washington, d.c., relations with -- 131 Wearing out your welcome -- 132 Why big company ceos aren't leaders -- 133 Workers should own company stock.
English
0394535782 [hardbound]
Management.
Organization.
Further up the organization / Robert Townsend. - First edition. - New York : Knopf, c1984. - xxi, 254 pages : 22 cm
Contents: 1 Accounting and reporting -- 2 Acquisitions I: how to pick'em -- 3 Acquisitions II: Lock up the lawyers -- 4 Acquisitions III: Bad/good -- 5 Advertising -- 6 Advice to mba's -- 7 Alphabetical order -- 8 Assistants-to and make-working -- 9 Big Labor unions: sounds of the dying dinosaur -- 10 Big wheels in little companies -- 11 Boss, how to retire the -- 12 Brevity -- 13 Budgets -- 14 Business lunch -- 15 Call yourself up -- 16 Ceo: picking the best man for the job -- 17 Chairman of the executive committee -- 18 Chinese water drop report -- 19 Compromise and king solomon -- 20 Computers and their priests -- 21 Computer-in-a-briefcase: preliminary report -- 22 Conflict within the organization -- 23 Consultants: real managers don't need them -- 24 Contacts -- 25 Controllers and accounting -- 26 Conviction vs. ego -- 27 Corporate image -- 28 Decisions -- 29 Delegation of authority I -- 30 Delegation of authority II: how to grow a hot department -- 31 Directors, board of: the back-seat drivers -- 32 Disobedience and its necessity -- 33 Do it now -- 34 Ejaculation, premature -- 35 Employment contracts and why not -- 36 Encourage treason -- 37 Engineers: they can be part of the problem too -- 38 Epaulets for the chief executive -- 39 Excellence-or, what the hell are you doing here? -- 40 Excuses -- 41 Expense accounts: theory x disease -- 42 Fads in management: why do they flop? -- 43 Fairness, justice, and other oddities -- 44 Family baggage -- 45 Feedback: tell them everything -- 46 Firing people -- 47 Geography, respect for -- 48 Getting better by getting smaller -- 49 Gifts from suppliers -- 50 Going a little bit public -- 51 Growth -- 52 Harvard business school -- 53 Headhunters -- 54 Hiring: choosing from the short list -- 55 Hubris, the sin of -- 56 Incentive compensation and profit sharing -- 57 Indirection: don't neglect it -- 58 Industrial relations: fire this whole department -- 59 Institutions, on not becoming an -- 60 Investment bankers -- 61 Inventors: keeping them informed -- 62 Japanese management -- 63 Job descriptions-straitjackets -- 64 Keeping in touch -- 65 Killing things, v.p. in charge of -- 66 Labor unions -- 67 Lawyers can be liabilities -- 68 Leadership -- 69 Low cost = low staff -- 70 Management and "top" management -- 71 Management consultants -- 72 Marketing -- 73 Mars, man from -- 74 Meetings -- 75 Memorandum, the last -- 76 Mercy misplaced -- 77 Mergers, conglobulations, and joint failures -- 78 Message to chief executives -- 79 Mistakes -- 80 Mistresses -- 81 Moonlighting -- 82 Moving the head office -- 83 Nepotism, the smell of -- 84 No-no's -- 85 Objectives -- 86 Office party, how not to do the annual -- 87 Organization charts: rigor mortis -- 88 paper tigers -- 89 Participative management: do you really have an enlightened company? -- 90 People -- 91 Personnel (people vs.) -- 92 Planning, long-range: a happening -- 93 Polaroid power -- 94 Policy manuals -- 95 Policy manuals: a vignette -- 96 P.R. department, abolition of -- 97 President's salary (is he really worth $750,000?) -- 98 Promises -- 99 Promotion, from within -- 100 Public accountants and the audit committee -- 101 Purchasing department -- 102 Putting on weight -- 103 Racism -- 104 Reorganizing -- 105 Retirement, mandatory -- 106 Sabbaticals: staying fresh -- 107 Salary review: annual encounter group -- 108 salesmen -- 109 scanlon plan -- 110 Secrecy: a child's garden of diseases -- 111 Secretary, freedom from a -- 112 Small business, starting a -- 113 Small companies -- 114 Staff services (Steno pool) -- 115 Start-up: clean the blackboard -- 116 Stockholders -- 117 Suggestion boxes: make them into birdhouses -- 118 Tax advice -- 119 Teams, two-man-good and bad -- 120 Telephone operators -- 121 Thanks -- 122 Time: Three thoughts on it -- 123 Time to fire the chief executive officer?-a test for the board of directors -- 14 Titles are handy tools -- 115 Too much vs. too little -- 126 Training -- 127 Turnaround -- 128 Underpaid -- 129 Vacation policy: go when you please -- 130 Washington, d.c., relations with -- 131 Wearing out your welcome -- 132 Why big company ceos aren't leaders -- 133 Workers should own company stock.
English
0394535782 [hardbound]
Management.
Organization.