A Management Model - Mimar Sinan

İbrahim Zeyd Gerçik’s work, A Management Model – Mimar Sinan, is a unique study that examines Mimar Sinan not through his architectural works, but through his management approach and leadership practice. The book aims to understand the institutional structure and mindset behind Sinan's success by bringing together the disciplines of history, architecture, urbanism, art, and management.

The work evaluates the environment in which Mimar Sinan grew up and produced within the framework of the Ottoman system of training administrators, corporate culture, and human resources philosophy. This approach allows for reading Sinan not merely as an individual genius, but as a product of the civilization system that made him possible.

The first section of the book discusses the institutional structure that shaped Sinan and the Ottoman tradition of training administrators. Subsequently, Sinan's personality, work discipline, and leadership approach are analyzed in the context of motivation, team management, in-house training, and management psychology.

One of the important parts of the study is its treatment of the construction process of the Süleymaniye Complex as an example of project management. In this section, Sinan's approach to planning, coordination, time, and human resource management is evaluated alongside contemporary project management concepts.

A Management Model – Mimar Sinan is an interdisciplinary and thought-provoking reference that sheds light on today's management practices through a historical figure.

Who Is It For?

• Managers who want to approach management and leadership from a historical perspective

• Professionals working in project management, team management, and corporate culture

• Readers interested in architecture, urbanism, and art history

• Researchers pondering Ottoman institutions and the human development system

• Those who wish to read Mimar Sinan as a management model beyond architecture