Carol KennedyCarol Kennedy is an award-winning business author and journalist with 28 years' experience in the field. Formerly executive editor of Director, Britain's prestigious boardroom journal, she is now an independent writer and editor. From Dynasties toDotcoms is her twelfth book on management and business/social history. Others include the best-selling Guide to Management Gurus (Random House), last revised and updated in 2002; Managing with the Gurus (1994); a history of scientific innovation at ICI (The Company That Changed Our Lives, 1986/1993); Mayfair: A Social History (1986); The Merchant Princes (2000), reissued as Business Pioneers (2001), a history of the Sainsbury, Cadbury and John Lewis trading families; and The Next Big Idea (2001), on the creation of management theories. Before joining Director Publications in 1975, Carol Kennedy was staff writer in London for the Canadian Press news agency. She was also London correspondent 1975-86 for Maclean's, the Toronto weekly news magazine. She was voted Business Writer of the Year in 1990 by the Periodical Publishers' Association and is a member of the Society of Authors and the Royal Society of Literature. Read More Read Less