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The Frontiers of Management

Where Tomorrow's Decisions are Being Shaped Today

  • 1st Edition - October 19, 1994
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Peter F. Drucker
  • Language: English

The Frontiers of Management offers stimulating and profitable reading for both existing Drucker disciples and those new to his writing.This collection of thirty-five fin… Read more

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The Frontiers of Management offers stimulating and profitable reading for both existing Drucker disciples and those new to his writing.

This collection of thirty-five finely balanced articles and essays, plus an interview and afterword, was planned by the author from the beginning to be published eventually in one volume and as variations on one unifying theme - the challenges of tomorrow that face the executive today.

What kind of tomorrow it will be depends heavily on the knowledge, insight, foresight and competence of the decision makers of today. The future is in the hands of executives who are already fully occupied with the daily crisis, and for whom the daily crisis is the one absolutely predictable event in their working day. It is to these people that this Drucker volume is addressed, to enable them to see and to understand the long-range implications and impacts of their immediate, everyday, urgent actions and decisions.

Key features

Collection of thirty-five articles and essaysCollection of thirty-five articles and essays

Readership

Management executives at all levels of responsibility; business and management students; Management historians

Table of contents

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.

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 26, 1995
  • Language: English

About the author

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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