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IELTS READING PRACTICE TEST 66 WITH ANSWERS

How to run a…

Publisher and author David Harvey on what makes a good

management book.

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Prior to the Second World War, all the management books ever

written could be comfortably stacked on a couple of shelves.

Today, you would need a sizeable library, with plenty of room for

expansion, to house them. The last few decades have seen the

stream of new titles swell into a flood. In 1975, 771 business

books were published. By 2000, the total for the year had risen

to 3,203, and the trend continues.

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The growth in pubishing activity has followed the rise and rise

of management to the point where it constitutes a mini-industry

in its own right. In the USA alone, the book market is worth over

$lbn. Management consultancies, professional bodies and

business schools were part of this new phenomenon, all sharing

at least one common need: to get into print. Nor were they the

only aspiring authors. Inside stories by and about business

leaders balanced the more straight-laced textbooks by

academics. How-to books by practising managers and business

writers appeared on everything from making a presentation to

developing a business strategy. With this upsurge in output, it is

not really surprising that the quality is uneven.

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Few people are probably in a better position to evaluate the

management canon than Carol Kennedy, a business journalist

and author of Guide to the Management Gurus, an overview of

the world’s most influential management thinkers and their

works. She is also the books editor of The Director. Of course, it

is normally the best of the bunch that are reviewed in the pages

of The Director. But from time to time, Kennedy is moved to use

The Director’s precious column inches to warn readers of

certain books. Her recent review of The Leader’s Edge summed

up her irritation with authors who over-promise and under-

deliver. The banality of the treatment of core competencies for