industrial management

Discusses eight basic practices characteristic of successfully managed companies.

Presents an analysis of how Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan revolutionized the American economy during the Industrial Age, and discusses how each built their empires, the competition among them, and their influence on society.

The authors argue that the traditional "reduce, reuse, recycle" maxim promoted by environmentalists is not an effective long-term solution to industrial waste, and describes their principles of "eco-effectiveness" which call for a nature-based model of manufacturing.