Book excerpt: This important work will serve to change irrevocably the course, nature and future of management education. For the first time, the foundations of management are brought to life through historical analysis. Never attempted or achieved before, the book takes the reader on a journey through almost the whole of human history, viewed from a management perspective. The study of management will be utterly transformed by this daringly innovative new paradigm for the understanding of the types of human management, the different approaches, practices and systems, and their development over time. The book also provides a summation of the author’s accumulation of over two decades of experience and knowledge in management education, and three decades of applied action in the world of business.