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The Frontiers of Management

by: Drucker, Peter F.

The Frontiers of Management

by: Drucker, Peter F.

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1422131572
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 07/15/2010
Publisher: Harvard Business School Pr

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A major new book on management by the single most influential writer on people and organizations in our time.

Preface: The Future Is Being Shaped Today	p. ix
Interview: A Talk with a Wide-Ranging Mind	p. xiii
Economics
The Changed World Economy	p. 3
America's Entrepreneurial Job Machine	p. 33
Why OPEC Had to Fail	p. 39
The Changing Multinational	p. 44
Managing Currency Exposure	p. 49
Export Markets and Domestic Policies	p. 54
Europe's High-Tech Ambitions	p. 59
What We Can Learn from the Germans	p. 64
On Entering the Japanese Market	p. 69
Trade with Japan: The Way It Works	p. 75
The Perils of Adversarial Trade	p. 81
Modern Prophets: Schumpeter or Keynes?	p. 87
People
Picking People: The Basic Rules	p. 101
Measuring White-Collar Productivity	p. 111
Twilight of the First-Line Supervisor?	p. 116
Overpaid Executives: The Greed Effect	p. 120
Overage Executives: Keeping Firms Young	p. 126
Paying the Professional Schools	p. 131
Jobs and People: The Growing Mismatch	p. 135
Quality Education: The New Growth Area	p. 141
Management
Management: The Problems of Success	p. 149
Getting Control of Staff Work	p. 176
Slimming Management's Midriff	p. 180
The Information-Based Organization	p. 185
Are Labor Unions Becoming Irrelevant?	p. 190
Union Flexibility: Why It's Now a Must	p. 196
Management as a Liberal Art	p. 202
The Organization
The Hostile Takeover and Its Discontents	p. 211
The Five Rules of Successful Acquisitions	p. 240
The Innovative Organization	p. 244
The No-Growth Enterprise	p. 249
Why Automation Pays Off	p. 253
IBM's Watson: Vision for Tomorrow	p. 257
The Lessons of the Bell Breakup	p. 271
Social Needs and Business Opportunities	p. 302
Afterword: Social Innovation-Management's New Dimension	p. 323
Acknowledgments	p. 337
Index	p. 339
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The Frontiers of Management

The Frontiers of Management

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1422131572

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