The essential Drucker : selections from the management works of Peter F. Drucker /
Drucker, Peter F.
The essential Drucker : selections from the management works of Peter F. Drucker / Peter F. Drucker. - First edition - New York : HarperBusiness, 2001. - x, 358 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
Management -- Management as Social Function and Liberal Art -- The Dimension of Management -- The Purpose and Objectives of a Business -- What the Nonprofits Are Teaching Business -- Social Impacts and Social Problems -- Management's New Paradigms -- The Information Executives Need Today -- Management by Objectives and Self-Control -- Picking People--The Basic Rules -- The Entrepreneurial Business -- The New Venture -- Entrepreneurial Strategies -- The Individual -- Effectiveness Must Be Learned -- Focus on Contribution -- Know Your Strengths and Values -- Know Your Time -- Effective Decisions -- Functioning Communications -- Leadership as Work -- Principles of Innovation -- The Second Half of Your Life -- The Educated Person -- Society -- A Century of Social Transformation--Emergence of Knowledge Society -- The Coming of Entrepreneurial Society -- Citizenship through the Social Sector -- From Analysis to Perception--The New Worldview -- Afterword: The Challenge Ahead
In one volume a selection of the essential writings from Peter F. Drucker's sixty years of work on management. The first selection of Drucker's management work from The Practice of Management (1954) to Management Challenges for the 21st Century (1999), this book offers, in Drucker's words, "a coherent and fairly comprehensive Introduction to management [and] gives an overview of my works on management and thus answers a question I have been asked again and again: which of my writings are essential?" The Essential Drucker contains twenty-six selections on management in the organization, management and the individual, and management and society. It covers the basic principles and concerns of management and its problems, challenges, and opportunities, giving managers, executives, and professionals the tools to perform the tasks that the economy and society of tomorrow will demand of them.
9780066210872
Institutional Fund
Industrial management.
Success in business.
The essential Drucker : selections from the management works of Peter F. Drucker / Peter F. Drucker. - First edition - New York : HarperBusiness, 2001. - x, 358 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
Management -- Management as Social Function and Liberal Art -- The Dimension of Management -- The Purpose and Objectives of a Business -- What the Nonprofits Are Teaching Business -- Social Impacts and Social Problems -- Management's New Paradigms -- The Information Executives Need Today -- Management by Objectives and Self-Control -- Picking People--The Basic Rules -- The Entrepreneurial Business -- The New Venture -- Entrepreneurial Strategies -- The Individual -- Effectiveness Must Be Learned -- Focus on Contribution -- Know Your Strengths and Values -- Know Your Time -- Effective Decisions -- Functioning Communications -- Leadership as Work -- Principles of Innovation -- The Second Half of Your Life -- The Educated Person -- Society -- A Century of Social Transformation--Emergence of Knowledge Society -- The Coming of Entrepreneurial Society -- Citizenship through the Social Sector -- From Analysis to Perception--The New Worldview -- Afterword: The Challenge Ahead
In one volume a selection of the essential writings from Peter F. Drucker's sixty years of work on management. The first selection of Drucker's management work from The Practice of Management (1954) to Management Challenges for the 21st Century (1999), this book offers, in Drucker's words, "a coherent and fairly comprehensive Introduction to management [and] gives an overview of my works on management and thus answers a question I have been asked again and again: which of my writings are essential?" The Essential Drucker contains twenty-six selections on management in the organization, management and the individual, and management and society. It covers the basic principles and concerns of management and its problems, challenges, and opportunities, giving managers, executives, and professionals the tools to perform the tasks that the economy and society of tomorrow will demand of them.
9780066210872
Institutional Fund
Industrial management.
Success in business.