Adventures in management : a saga of managing in a developing country / Kenneth Abeywickrama.

Managing amid chaos -- Coping with chaos -- Proletarian power -- Learning from subordinates -- Class and caste systems -- Good governance and weak managers -- The great divide in a business -- Sometimes, managers are too human -- Searching for transparency -- Crossing the class barrier -- Junior, eschew the limelight -- The importance of networking -- Middle East sketches: Saudi and Yemen -- Middle East sketches: the Gulf and Afghanistan -- Multinationals are good for you -- Public services can be managed -- Public service management -- Meeting the people -- Making a quick buck -- Redeeming promises -- Getting people to work -- Re-programming people -- More encounters with politicians -- Image building -- Saving the forests -- Mending the system -- A parting of ways -- Epilogue.