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The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management , 2nd Edition
Art Kleiner, Warren Bennis (Foreword by), Steven Wheeler (Foreword by), Walt McFarland (Foreword by)
ISBN: 978-0-470-19070-8
Hardcover
432 pages
July 2008
US $29.95 add_to_cart.gif
This Title is Part of the Following Series:
The Warren Bennis Series
 
Table of Contents
 
Foreword by Warren Bennis.

Preface by Steven Wheeler and Walter McFarland.

Introduction.

1. Monastics: Corporate Culture and Its Discontents, 1945 to Today.

2. Pelagians: National Training Laboratories, 1947-1962.

3. Reformists: Workplace Redesign at Procter & Gamble and the Gaines Dog Food Plant in Topeka, 1961-1973.

4. Protesters: Saul Alinsky, FIGHTON, Campaign GM, and the Shareholder Activism Movement, 1964-1971.

5. Mystics: Royal Dutch/Shell's Scenario Planners, 1967-1973.

6. Lovers of Faith and Reason: Heretical Engineers at Stanford Research Institute and MIT, 1955-1971.

7. Parzival's Dilemma: Edie Seashore, Chris Argyris, and Warren Bennis, 1959-1979.

8. Millenarians: Erewhon, the SRI Futures Group, Herman Kahn, Royal Dutch/Shell, and Amory Lovins, 1968-1979.

9. The Rapids: Hayes and Abernathy, Tom Peters, W. Edwards Deming, the Creators of GE Workout, and Other Synthesizers of Management Change, 1974-1982.

Bibliography.

Notes.

Acknowledgments.

About the Author.

Index.

 
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