The Frontiers of Management

ISBN-13: 9780750621823 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 384 str.

Peter F. Drucker

Opis

Presents a collection of thirty-five articles and essays, and an interview and afterword. This volume enables the executives to see and to understand the long-range implications and impacts of their immediate, everyday, urgent actions and decisions.

Recenzje

'This collection is full of lessons and teaches them superbly. This is vintage Drucker.'
Management Today

Spis treści

Preface: the future is being shaped today; Interview: a talk with a wide-ranging mind; Economics - The changed world economy; America's entrepreneurial job machine; Why OPEC had to fail; The changing multinational; Managing currency exposure; Export markets and domestic policies; Europe's high-tech ambitions; What we can learn from the Germans; On entering the japanese market; Trade with Japan: the way it works; The perils of adversarial trade; Modern prophets: Schumpeter or Keynes?; People - Picking people: the basic rules; Measuring white-collar productivity; Twilight of the first-line supervisor?; Overpaid executives: keeping firms young; Paying the professional schools; Jobs and people: the growing mismatch; Quality education: the new growth area; Management - Management: the problems of success; Getting control of staff work; Slimming management's midriff; The information-based organization; Are labor unions becoming irrelevant?; Union flexibility: why it's now a must; Management as a liberal art; The organization - The hostile takeover and its discontents; The five rules of successful acquisitions; The innovative organization; The no-growth enterprise; Why automation pays off; IBM's Watson: vision for tomorrow; The lessons of the Bell breakup; Social needs and business opportunities; Afterword: social innovation management's new dimension; Index.

O autorze

Peter F. Drucker