Managing for the Future
- 1st Edition - March 26, 1993
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Author: Peter F. Drucker
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 3 8 0 5 - 9
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 t… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis 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.
Wide-ranging, future-oriented book
Written by one of the world's leading management gurus
Written by one of the world's leading management gurus
Management academics and students; Managers keeping up with current trends
Preface; Acknowledgements; Interview: Notes on the post-business society; Economics - The futures already around us; The poverty of economic theory; The transnational economy; From World trade to World investment; The lessons of the U.S. export boom; Low wages: no longer a competitive edge; Europe in the 1990s: strategies for survival; U.S.-Japan trade needs a reality check; Japan's great postwar weapon; Misinterpreting Japan and the Japanese; Help Latin America and help ourselves; Mexico's ace in the hole: The Maquiladora; People - The new productivity challenge; The mystique of the business leader; Leadership: more doing than dash; People, work, and the future of the city; The rise and fall of the blue-collar worker; On ending work rules and job descriptions; Making managers of communist bureaucrats; China's nightmare: No jobs for the millions; Management - Tomorrow's managers: the major trends; How to manage the boss; What really ails the U.S. auto industry; Manage by walking around - outside!; Corporate culture: use it, don't lose it; Permanent cost cutting: permanent policy; What the nonprofits are teaching business; Nonprofit governance: lessons for success; The nonprofits' outreach revolution; The organization - The governance of corporations; Four marketing lessons for the future; Tomorrow's company: dressed for success; Company performance: five telltale tests; R&D: the best is business-driven; Sell the mailroom: unbundling in the '90s; The ten rules of effective research; The trend toward alliances for progress; A crisis of capitalism: who's in charge?; The emerging theory of manufacturing; Afterword: The 1990s and beyond - The changing world economy; The knowledge society; Innovation and entrepreneurship; Personal effectiveness; Index.
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 26, 1993
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- No. of pages: 300
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN: 9780080938059
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Peter F. Drucker
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Clarke Professor of Social Science, Peter F Drucker Graduate Management School, Claremont Graduate University, California