Management, Entrepreneurship, Economics 

What will it be like to be a manager or a business leader in 2010? This is the key question answered in Managing in the Next Millenium, a unique collection of candid, first-hand insights, based on exclusive interviews with the world's top management commentators, thinkers and doers. Here are just some of the issues Mike Johnson investigates:* Organizations: will they be flatter, outsourced and dominated by super managers? which management functions will survive? * Individual careers: will we have to learn to develop and market ourselves in a new employment world of short term contracts? will head-hunters manage our career protfolio like agents? * Corporate culture: democratic or autocratic? * Retaining employees: how will we motivate high performance managers in flatter organizations? * International business: will we expect to work in a multicultural environment and need to increase our mobility - or will high tech communications reduce corporate travel? * Global competitiveness: which are the dominant and emerging nations? * Management strategies: will service, service, service still be the key to corporate success? * The workplace: will we still herd together in offices or telecommute? Co-published with Management Centre Europe, the European arm of the American Management Associationincludes key authors such as Drucker, Kotler, Champyunique collection of insights from the world's top management commentators - from Amzon