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Managing in a Time of Great Change
ISBN: 9781422140796 | 1422140792
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Perseus Distribution Services
Pub. Date: 10/27/2009
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"None of the pieces in this book attempts to predict the future. All deal with what executives can do--have to do--to make the future.
For more than half a century, Peter F. Drucker's landmark essays have inspired and educated managers--and influenced the nature of business. Now, the learning continues with the Harvard Business Press release of the new Drucker Library Series. In Managing in a Time of Great Change, the first book in the series, Drucker offers advice to executives for thriving in the global business ... MORE
For more than half a century, Peter F. Drucker's landmark essays have inspired and educated managers--and influenced the nature of business. Now, the learning continues with the Harvard Business Press release of the new Drucker Library Series. In Managing in a Time of Great Change, the first book in the series, Drucker offers advice to executives for thriving in the global business ... MORE
| Preface | p. vii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Interview: The Post-Cavitalist Executive | p. xxii |
| Management | |
| The Theory of the Business | p. 3 |
| Planning for Uncertainty | p. 19 |
| The Five Deadly Business Sins | p. 25 |
| Managing the Family Business | p. 31 |
| Six Rules for Presidents | p. 37 |
| Managing in the Network Society | p. 43 | ... MORE
| The Information-Based Organization | |
| The New Society of Organizations | p. 53 |
| There Are Three Kinds of Teams | p. 71 |
| The Information Revolution in Retail | p. 77 |
| Be Data Literate; Know What to Know | p. 83 |
| We Need to Measure, Not Count | p. 89 |
| The Information Executives Need Today | p. 93 |
| The Economy | |
| Trade Lessons from the World Economy | p. 113 |
| The U.S. Economy's Power Shift | p. 133 |
| Where the New Markets Are | p. 139 |
| The Pacific Rim and the World Economy | p. 145 |
| China's Growth Markets | p. 149 |
| The End of Japan, Inc.? | p. 155 |
| A Weak Dollar Strengthens Japan | p. 163 |
| The New Superpower; The Overseas Chinese | p. 169 |
| The Society | |
| A Century of Social Transformation | p. 177 |
| It Profits Us to Strengthen Nonprofits | p. 231 |
| Knowledge Work and Gender Roles | p. 237 |
| Reinventing Government | p. 241 |
| Can the Democracies Win the Peace? | p. 261 |
| Conclusion | p. 289 |
| Interview: Managing in a Post-Capitalist Society | p. 291 |
| Index | p. 301 |
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