Managing for the Future
1st Edition
Published on 13. May 2013
300 pages
978-1-136-00938-9 (ISBN)
Description
This wide-ranging, future-oriented book is sure to number among the most important and influential business books of the decade.
Drucker writes with penetrating 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.
Drucker writes with penetrating 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.
Reviews / Votes
'... a heavyweight book and vital reading for the heavyweight manager.' - Professional Manager"Managing for the Future is a highly accessible trend identifier and ideas generator that succeeds in fulfilling the purpose and mission set by Peter Drucker in the preface...a book 'to help executives act and to produce results, to help to perform.' '' - Journal of Strategic Change
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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
3,60 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-00938-9 (9781136009389)
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Person
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Content
Introduction Interview; Part 1 Economics; Chapter 1 The Futures Already Around Us; Chapter 2 The Poverty of Economic Theory; Chapter 3 The Transnational Economy; Chapter 4 From World Trade to World Investment; Chapter 5 The Lessons of the U.S. Export Boom; Chapter 6 Low Wages; Chapter 7 Europe in the 1990s; Chapter 8 U.S.-Japan Trade Needs a Reality Check; Chapter 9 Japan's Great Postwar Weapon; Chapter 10 Misinterpreting Japan and the Japanese; Chapter 11 Help Latin America and Help Ourselves; Chapter 12 Mexico's Ace in the Hole; Part 2 People; Chapter 13 The New Productivity Challenge; Chapter 14 The Mystique of the Business Leader; Chapter 15 Leadership; Chapter 16 People, Work, and the Future of the City; Chapter 17 The Rise and Fall of the Blue-Collar Worker; Chapter 18 On Ending Work Rules and Job Descriptions; Chapter 19 Making Managers of Communist Bureaucrats; Chapter 20 China's Nightmare; Part 3 Management; Chapter 21 Tomorrow's Managers; Chapter 22 How to Manage the Boss; Chapter 23 What Really Ails the U.S. Auto Industry; Chapter 24 Manage by Walking Around - Outside!; Chapter 25 Corporate Culture; Chapter 26 Permanent Cost Cutting; Chapter 27 What the Nonprofits Are Teaching Business; Chapter 28 Nonprofit Governance; Chapter 29 The Nonprofits' Outreach Revolution; Part 4 The Organization; Chapter 30 The Governance of Corporations; Chapter 31 Four Marketing Lessons for the Future; Chapter 32 Tomorrow's Company; Chapter 33 Company Performance; Chapter 34 R & D; Chapter 35 Sell the Mailroom; Chapter 36 The 10 Rules of Effective Research; Chapter 37 The Trend Toward Alliances for Progress; Chapter 38 A Crisis of Capitalism; Chapter 39 The Emerging Theory of Manufacturing; Chapter 40 Afterword;
