Provides insight about the critical issues facing managers in the 1990s such as: the world economic order; people at work; new trends in management and the governance of organizations. This book is written by one of the world's leading management gurus.[...]
What is management? What is a manager? This volume spans the main dimensions of management and its themes are based on Drucker's direct experience as an adviser to businesses, government departments, public institutions, and as a widely sought lecturer.[...]
In this classic text, Peter Drucker studies how modern-day managers, whether in business or public service, can perform effectively. He takes an international view, exploring management problems in Great Britain, Western Europe, Japan, and Latin America, and suggests how these problems can be tackle[...]
This classic volume achieves a remarkable width of appeal without sacrificing scientific accuracy or depth of analysis. It is a valuable contribution to the study of business efficiency which should be read by anyone wanting information about the developments and place of management, and it is as re[...]
The measure of the executive, Peter Drucker reminds us, is the ability to 'get the right things done'. Usually this involves doing what other people have overlooked, as well as avoiding what is unproductive. He identifies five talents as essential to effectiveness, and these can be learned; in fact,[...]
"Innovation and Entrepreneurship" deals with 'what, when and why'; with policies and decisions; opportunities and risks, structures and strategies; staffing, compensation and rewards. In addition to managers in all types of business, lecturers and students of management and business studies will fin[...]
Looks afresh at the future of management thinking and practice. This title deals with the challenges facing various organizations.[...]
Peter Drucker may be best known as a writer on business and management, but, in fact, these subjects are neither his first nor have they been his foremost intellectual concern. Drucker's primary concern has been community, in which the individual has status, and society, in which the individual has [...]
"Flaherty has accomplished the impossible: making a systematic thinker out of me. I am particularly impressed by his skill in balancing chronology and themes, and that over a sixty-year-span. I have learned a great deal about my work from this book."
-- Peter F. Drucker
"Peter F. Drucker is[...]
Hailed as 'a warm and useful read', "A Class with Drucker" brings to life invaluable advice from the world's greatest thinker and writer on management. From 1975 to 1979, author William Cohen studied under the great Peter Drucker and became the first graduate of his doctoral program. What Drucker ta[...]
Examining the future of Palestinians and Israelis, this debate explores the volatile relationship between the two groups and their ongoing struggle to coexist. Through the letters of two friends, complex issues are discussed, including how secular Jews outside Israel should define their loyalties, w[...]
Business guru Peter Drucker provides an incisive analysis of the major world transformation taking place, from the Age of Capitalism to the Knowledge Society, and examines the radical affects it will have on society, politics, and business now and in the coming years.[...]