Inspired by her generation's experiences juggling career and home life, journalist Andrea Gabor set out to define the unique stuff of which great women are made and chart the often tangled territory in which love and ambition intersect. Among the women she profiles are Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown, and Mileva Maric Einstein, the scientist whose marriage to Einstein ended in tragedy.

Einstein's Wife: Work and Marriage in the Lives of Five Great Twentieth-Century Women

Biographies & Memoirs

Gabor, Andrea

Community & Culture

Penguin??Books

An authoritative account of the man whose revolutionary methods made quality the goal of corporate America discusses Deming's work with the Japanese, his Fourteen Point philosophy for managing quality, and more. Reprint. NYT.

The Man Who Discovered Quality: How W. Edwards Deming Brought the Quality Revolution to America...

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

A readable, informative overview of the personalities and ideas that have shaped the modern business world includes profiles of Peter Drucker, W. Edwards Deming, Alfred Sloan, and Abraham Maslow and traces the rise of some of corporate America's most important business institutions. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business -- Their Lives, Times, and Ideas

Crown Business

Five intimate portraits of exceptional women include Mileva Maric, scientist wife of Einstein; Lee Krasner, artist married to Jackson Pollock; Maria Goppert Mayer, scientist, mother, and Nobel Prize winner; architect Denise Scott Brown; and Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Einstein's Wife and Other Women of Genius

Viking Adult

Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business -- Their Lives, Times, And Ideas

Diane Pub Co.

Discusses the principles and theories of management expert W. Edwards Deming, assessing his impact on the international business world and the practical implementation of his theories in such areas as marketing, sales, finance, and production

The Man Who Discovered Quality

Times

In The Capitalist Philosophers, critically acclaimed writer Andrea Gabor tells the epic story of American business through the lives, times, and ideas of the great thinkers who defined the art and science of business. It is a book full of colorful stories and brilliant insights into why the business world is the way it is today. People in business are constantly besieged by supposedly revolutionary ideas. Any company that went on a crash diet in response to the trendy precepts of Reengineering the Corporation felt the enormous impact still exercised by one of the first capitalist philosophers, Frederick Taylor. By going back to the source, Gabor helps businesspeople make smart, informed decisions about the future. Featured in The Capitalist Philosophers are:Frederick Taylor: "Production went to his head and filled his sleepless nerves like liquor or women on a Saturday night." Mary Parker Follett, who understood that "only so far as business leaders . . . can identify themselves with the underlying social impulses of their time can they hope to plan and build great organizations." Chester Barnard, the philosopher king, who believed that management's job is to get things done by persuasion. Fritz Roethlisberger and Elton Mayo, the creative misfits who "invented" human relations and put Harvard Business School on the map. Robert McNamara, the "Whiz Kid," whose pioneering work in control and quantitative methods at Ford and the Department of Defense have had such a great influence on American management. Abraham Maslow and Douglas McGregor, the pathfinders of humanistic management. W. Edwards Deming, "the man who discovered quality" and the prophet of the learning organization. Herbert Simon, Nobel laureate, pioneer in artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology, renegade economist and management pathbreaker, whose ideas on decision making have been vastly influential. Alfred Chandler, who laid the basis for the way we think about corporate strategy, and Alfred Sloan, whose My Years at General Motors is the most important business book ever published. Peter Drucker, who "gives you thoughts that are large." As Andrea Gabor notes in her Introduction, "Contrary to common wisdom, it is possible for individuals to have a major impact on history. Just as FDR and Margaret Sanger changed the way we think about, respectively, politics and sexuality, so the capitalist philosophers have changed the way we look at the dominant institution in our society--the corporation."

The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business--Their Lives, Times, and Ideas

Economics

The education wars have been demoralizing for teachers. . . . After the Education Wars helps us to see a better way forward.” Cathy N. Davidson, The New York Times Book Review After the Education Wars is an important book that points the way to genuine reform.” Diane Ravitch, author of Reign of Error and The Death and Life of the Great American School System A bestselling business journalist critiques the top-down approach of popular education reforms and profiles the unexpected success of schools embracing a nimbler, more democratic entrepreneurialism In an entirely fresh take on school reform, business journalist and bestselling author Andrea Gabor argues that Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and other leaders of the prevailing education-reform movement have borrowed all the wrong lessons from the business world. After the Education Wars explains how the market-based measures and carrot-and-stick incentives informing today’s reforms are out of sync with the nurturing culture that good schools foster and—contrary to popular belief—at odds with the best practices of thriving twenty-first-century companies as well. These rich, detailed stories of real reform in action illustrate how enduring change must be deeply collaborative and relentlessly focused on improvement from the grass roots up—lessons also learned from both the open-source software and quality movements. The good news is that solutions born of this philosophy are all around us: from Brockton, Massachusetts, where the state’s once-failing largest high school now sends most graduates to college, to Leander, Texas, a large district where school improvement, spurred by the ideas of quality guru W. Edwards Deming, has become a way of life. A welcome exception to the doom-and-gloom canon of education reform, After the Education Wars makes clear that what’s needed is not more grand ideas, but practical and informed ways to grow the best ones that are already transforming schools.

After the Education Wars: How Smart Schools Upend the Business of Reform

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

The New Press

Deming El Hombre Que Descubrió La Calidad de Gabor Andrea. Granica, 1991.

Deming: El Hombre Que Descubrio LA Calidad (Spanish Edition)

Gambolini, Gerardo

Granica Adelphi

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