The Frontiers of Management
1st Edition
Published on 10. September 2012
384 pages
978-1-136-00841-2 (ISBN)
Description
The Frontiers of Management offers stimulating and profitable reading for both existing Drucker disciples and those new to his writing.
This collection of thirty-five finely balanced articles and essays, plus an interview and afterword, was planned by the author from the beginning to be published eventually in one volume and as variations on one unifying theme - the challenges of tomorrow that face the executive today.
What kind of tomorrow it will be depends heavily on the knowledge, insight, foresight and competence of the decision makers of today. The future is in the hands of executives who are already fully occupied with the daily crisis, and for whom the daily crisis is the one absolutely predictable event in their working day. It is to these people that this Drucker volume is addressed, to enable them to see and to understand the long-range implications and impacts of their immediate, everyday, urgent actions and decisions.
This collection of thirty-five finely balanced articles and essays, plus an interview and afterword, was planned by the author from the beginning to be published eventually in one volume and as variations on one unifying theme - the challenges of tomorrow that face the executive today.
What kind of tomorrow it will be depends heavily on the knowledge, insight, foresight and competence of the decision makers of today. The future is in the hands of executives who are already fully occupied with the daily crisis, and for whom the daily crisis is the one absolutely predictable event in their working day. It is to these people that this Drucker volume is addressed, to enable them to see and to understand the long-range implications and impacts of their immediate, everyday, urgent actions and decisions.
Reviews / Votes
'This collection is full of lessons and teaches them superbly. This is vintage Drucker.'Management Today
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic/professional/technical: Undergraduate. Academic/professional/technical: Postgraduate. Academic/professional/technical: Research and professional
File size
1,05 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-00841-2 (9781136008412)
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Person
Peter F. Drucker
Content
Interview A Talk with a Wide-Ranging Mind; Part 1 Economics; Chapter 1 The Changed World Economy; Chapter 2 America's Entrepreneurial Job Machine; Chapter 3 Why OPEC Had to Fail; Chapter 4 The Changing Multinational; Chapter 5 Managing Currency Exposure; Chapter 6 Export Markets and Domestic Policies; Chapter 7 Europe's High-Tech Ambitions; Chapter 8 What We Can Learn from the Germans; Chapter 9 On Entering the Japanese Market; Chapter 10 Trade with Japan: The Way It Works; Chapter 11 The Perils of Adversarial Trade; Chapter 12 Modern Prophets: Schumpeter or Keynes?; Part 2 People; Chapter 13 Picking People: The Basic Rules; Chapter 14 Measuring White-Collar Productivity; Chapter 15 Twilight of the First-Line Supervisor?; Chapter 16 Overpaid Executives: The Greed Effect; Chapter 17 Overage Executives: Keeping Firms Young; Chapter 18 Paying the Professional Schools; Chapter 19 Jobs and People: The Growing Mismatch; Chapter 20 Quality Education: The New Growth Area; Part 3 Management; Chapter 21 Management: The Problems of Success; Chapter 22 Getting Control of Staff Work; Chapter 23 Slimming Management's Midriff; Chapter 24 The Information-Based Organization; Chapter 25 Are Labor Unions Becoming Irrelevant?; Chapter 26 Union Flexibility: Why It's Now a Must; Chapter 27 Management as a Liberal Art; Part 4 The Organization; Chapter 28 The Hostile Takeover and Its Discontents; Chapter 29 The Five Rules of Successful Acquisitions; Chapter 30 The Innovative Organization; Chapter 31 The No-Growth Enterprise; Chapter 32 Why Automation Pays Off; Chapter 33 IBM's Watson: Vision for Tomorrow; Chapter 34 The Lessons of the Bell Breakup; Chapter 35 Social Needs and Business Opportunities;
