The Essential Drucker
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Father of modern management, social commentator, and preeminent business philosopher, Peter F. Drucker analyzed economics and society for more than sixty years. Now for readers everywhere who are concerned with the ways that management practices and principles affect the performance of organizations, individuals, and society, there is The Essential Drucker?an invaluable compilation of essential materials from the works of a management legend.
Containing twenty-six core selections, The Essential Drucker covers the basic principles and concerns of management and its problems, challenges, and opportunities, giving managers, executives, and professionals the tools to perform the tasks that the economy and society of tomorrow will demand of them.
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Peter F. Drucker is considered the most influential management thinker ever. The author of more than twenty-five books, his ideas have had an enormous impact on shaping the modern corporation. Drucker passed away in 2005.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction: The Origin And Purpose Of The Essential Drucker
- I. Management
- 1. Management as Social Function and Liberal Art
- 2. The Dimensions of Management
- 3. The Purpose and objectives of a Business
- 4. What the Nonprofits Are Teaching Business
- 5. Social Impacts and Social Problems
- 6. Management's New Paradigms
- 7. The Information Executives Need Today
- 8. Management by Objectives and Self-Control
- 9. Picking People-The Basic Rules
- 10. The Entrepreneurial Business
- 11. The New Venture
- 12. Entrepreneurial Strategies
- II. The Individual
- 13. Effectiveness Must Be Learned
- 14. Focus on Contribution
- 15. Know Your Strengths and Values
- 16. Know Your Time
- 17. Effective Decisions
- 18. Functioning Communications
- 19. Leadership as Work
- 20. Principles of Innovation
- 21. The Second Half of Your Life
- 22. The Educated Person
- III. Society
- 23. A Century of Social Transformation-Emergence of Knowledge Society
- 24. The Coming of Entrepreneurial Society
- 25. Citizenship through the Social Sector
- 26. From Analysis to Perception-The New Worldview
- Afterword: The Challenge Ahead
- About the Author
- Books by Peter F. Drucker
- Credits
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
