Managing for Results: Economic Tasks and Risk-Taking Decisions

ISBN-13: 9780750643917 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 240 str.

Peter F. Drucker

Opis

Managing for Results demonstrates Drucker's particular genius for breaking through conventional outlooks and opening up new perspectives for ultimate profits in the world of business. What must be done to make the organization perform, prosper and grow - what the executive, the maker of decisions, must do to move the enterprise forward - is the subject of this book. It will be of great value to students of management as well as executives in industry and commerce, and it deals skilfully and perceptively with economic tasks which every business has to tackle in order to achieve sound performance and economic results.

Recenzje

`The pre-eminent management thinker of our time.' Harvard Business Review
`...it would be difficult to overestimate his contribution to management thinking.'
Financial Times

Spis treści

Acknowledgement; Introduction: The task; Understanding the business - Business realities; The result areas; Revenues, resources and prospects; How are we doing?; Cost centres and cost structure; The customer is the business; Knowledge is the business; This is our business; Focus on opportunity - Building on strength; Finding business potential; Making the future today; A programme for performance - The key decisions; Business strategies; Building economic performance into a business; Conclusion: The commitment; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Born in Vienna in 1909, Peter F. Drucker was educated in Austria and England. From 1929 he was a newspaper correspondent abroad and an economist for an international bank in London. Since 1937 he has been in the United States, first as an economist for a group of British banks and insurance companies, and later as a management consultant to several of the country's largest companies, as well as leading companies abroad. Drucker has since had a distinguished career as a teacher, first as Professor of Politics and Philosophy at Bennington College, then for more than twenty years as Professor of Management at the Graduate Business School of New York University. Since 1971 he has been Clarke Professor of Social Science at Claremont Graduate School in California. In addition to his management books, Peter Drucker is also renowned for his prophetic books analysing politics, economics and society. These books span fifty years of modern history beginning with The End of Economic Man (1939) and including The Practice of Management; Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Managing in the Next Society; Management Challenges in the 21st Century; The Effective Executive and The Essential Drucker.