Managing for the Future
Peter Ferdinand Drucker(Author)
Butterworth-Heinemann (Publisher)
Published on 20. January 1992
Book
Hardback
360 pages
978-0-7506-0492-5 (ISBN)
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This is an edited collection of articles written by Drucker for the "Wall Street Journal", the "Harvard Business Review" and other quality business publications. The author writes with insight about the critical issues facing managers in the 1990s: the world economic order; people at work; new trends in management and the governance of organizations. Born in Vienna in 1909, Peter F. Drucker was educated in Austria and England. From 1929 he was a newspaper correspondent abroad and an economist for an international bank in London. Since 1937 he has been in the United States, first as an economist for a group of British banks and insurance companies, and later as a management consultant to several of the country's largest companies, as well as to leading companies abroad. Drucker has since had a distinguished career as a teacher and academic. Since 1971 he has been Clark Professor of Social Science at Claremont Graduate School in California.
This is an edited collection of articles written by Drucker for the "Wall Street Journal", the "Harvard Business Review" and other quality business publications. The author writes with insight about the critical issues facing managers in the 1990s: the world economic order; people at work; new trends in management and the governance of organizations. Born in Vienna in 1909, Peter F. Drucker was educated in Austria and England. From 1929 he was a newspaper correspondent abroad and an economist for an international bank in London. Since 1937 he has been in the United States, first as an economist for a group of British banks and insurance companies, and later as a management consultant to several of the country's largest companies, as well as to leading companies abroad. Drucker has since had a distinguished career as a teacher and academic. Since 1971 he has been Clark Professor of Social Science at Claremont Graduate School in California.
This is an edited collection of articles written by Drucker for the "Wall Street Journal", the "Harvard Business Review" and other quality business publications. The author writes with insight about the critical issues facing managers in the 1990s: the world economic order; people at work; new trends in management and the governance of organizations. Born in Vienna in 1909, Peter F. Drucker was educated in Austria and England. From 1929 he was a newspaper correspondent abroad and an economist for an international bank in London. Since 1937 he has been in the United States, first as an economist for a group of British banks and insurance companies, and later as a management consultant to several of the country's largest companies, as well as to leading companies abroad. Drucker has since had a distinguished career as a teacher and academic. Since 1971 he has been Clark Professor of Social Science at Claremont Graduate School in California.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1ill.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
56 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7506-0492-5 (9780750604925)
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Content
Part 1 Economics: the futures already around us; the poverty of economic theory; the transnational economy; from world trade to world investment; the lessons of the US export boom; low wages - no longer give competitive edge; Europe in the 1990's - strategies for survival; US-Japan trade needs a reality check; Japan's great postwar weapon; misinterpreting Japan and the Japanese; help Latin America and help ourselves; Mexico's ace in the hole - the Maquiladora. Part 2 People: the new productivity challenges; the mystique of the business leader; leadership - more doing than dash; people, work and the future of the city; the rise and fall of the blue-collar worker; on ending work rules and job descriptions; making managers of communist bureaucrats; China's nightmare - no jobs for the millions. Part 3 Management: tomorrow's managers - the major trends; how to manage the boss; what really ails the US auto industry; the new Japanese business strategies; manage by walking around-outside!; corporate culture - use it, don't lose it; permanent cost cutting - permanent policy; what the non-profits are teaching business; non-profit governance - lessons for success; company performance; five telltale tests; R & D - the best is business-driven; sell the mailroom - unbundling in the 90's; the 10 rules of effective research; the trend towards alliances for progress; a crisis of capitalism - who's in charge?; the emerging theory of manufacturing - afterword.