Management Innovators

The survey of the field of management begins with Eli Whitney inventor of the cotton gin who failed to create a successful business based on it and ends with Peter Drucker who is probably the most respected management thinker in America today but who has never run a business. Each chapter of the book is devoted to a specific figure and describes not only that person''s contribution to the field but explores the wider social context in which the person lived and worked. Figures explored include: Thomas Edison Andrew Carnegie Henry Ford Richard W. Sears Alexander Graham Bell J. Pierpont Morgan Frederick W. Taylor Alfred P. Sloan and W. Edwards Deming.