The End of Management

This book shows you how, by applying newly discovered scientific principles from the field of complexity theory, you can create hyper-productive business organizations that exhibit the same unplanned order seen in natural systems and free societies. These Spontaneous Enterprises, like the credit card giant Visa, will exceed the productivity and growth of managed enterprises by as great a margin as free economies outperform planned economies. And for precisely the same reasons.

Thomas Pyzdek is listed as an Outstanding Writer and Author by the International Who's Who in Quality. He has provided consulting to many Fortune 100 firms in a variety of industries. He founded two successful companies: Quality America, Inc. (statistical software) and Quality Publishing, Inc. (books and multimedia training materials). He is the author of numerous books and articles on quality management and engineering subjects. He writes a regular blog. Pyzdek has taught at the University of Arizona and the University of Phoenix, as well as for the American Society for Quality (ASQ). He has masters degrees from the University of Arizona in Systems and Industrial Engineering (1982) as well as Management (1995). Pyzdek is a of ASQ and he is ASQ certified as both a Quality Engineer and a Reliability Engineer. In 1995 he was awarded the prestigious ASQ Edwards Medal for outstanding contributions to the practice of quality management, and the Eugene L. Grant Medal for outstanding leadership in quality education.