Hard-Core Management: Revealing the Unwritten Rules (Paperback)

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"Bring[s] some real sense to the complexities of our modern business." -- Peter Dixon, Director of Strategy, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

"In contrast to other books that give is the right answers, 'HardCore Management' teaches us to ask the right questions." -- Daniel Denison, Professor of Organization and Management at IMD Business School, Lausanne, Switzerland

"Jo Owen presents many insights into the reality of business life and success." -- James Kelly, co-author of 'Transforming the Organization', CGEY Fellow and retired co-Chairman, Gemini Consulting

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"Jo Owen has mined a rich seam of valuable and pragmatic insight to bring some real sense to the complexities of our modern businesses." -- Peter Dixon, Director of Strategy, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

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Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Kogan Page (June 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0749439246
• ISBN-13: 978-0749439248
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,324,613 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended!, May 18, 2004

By	Rolf Dobelli "getAbstract.com" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This blunt, irreverent book blurts out what many people in business have long suspected: nearly everything you learned in business school is wrong and most of what you read in corporate mission statements and strategic plans makes no sense. Author Jo Owen takes on all of the shibboleths of yesteryear's management literature - romance your customer, communicate, invite change and so on - and demolishes each one. The approach is raw and blatant; it stands in relation to ordinary business books much as punk rock stands in relation to easy listening. The author seems to be saying something no one else has dared to say. But do not confuse the novelty of the presentation with the novelty of the material itself. To some extent, Owen's recommendations revise the conventional wisdom of the recent bubble years and replace it with a new and - if not more sober - certainly less effervescent orthodoxy. We recommend taking a thoughtful look. What people are starting to say more and more often, Jo Owen has perhaps expressed with the most originality.