Peter F. Drucker on economic threats
- Harvard, Harvard Business Review Press: 2020.
- xiv, 262p., ind., 24 cm X 16 cm
Donated by: Student
Summary: How to Adjust to Shifts in the Economy. In these forty salient essays, renowned management thinker Peter F. Drucker explores how social, political, and economic contexts impact the manager's role. Considered against the backdrop of the twenty-first-century marketplace, with its breathless pace, complex political issues, economic threats, and ruthless global competition, the book's wisdom and insights are classic Drucker: timeless, prescient, and practical. Arguing that management is charged not only with responding to the complex economic issues of the day but also with meeting the needs of customers and employees, Drucker addresses a wide variety of topics that touch on both the professional and the personal aspects of managing in a changing world, among them: Emerging developments in the global economy, Changes in the global workforce, The measurement of business performance, Shifting employee and consumer expectations. Both forward-thinking and practical, "Peter F. Drucker on Economic Threats" offers ideas and insights today's managers can use to achieve consistent, successful results, even as the world around them changes.
Contents:
ntroduction: A Society of Organizations Part I Executive Agenda. Inflation-Proofing the Company A Scorecard for Management Helping Small Businesses Cope Is Executive Pay Excessive? On Mandatory Executive Retirement The Real Duties of a Director The Information Explosion Learning from Foreign Management Part II Business Performance. The Delusion of Profits Aftermath of a Go-Go Decade Managing Capital Productivity Six Durable Economic Myths Measuring Business Performance Why Consumers Aren't Behaving Good Growth and Bad Growth The "Re-Industrialization" of America The Danger of Excessive Labor Income Part III The Non-Profit Sector. Managing the Non-Profit Institution Managing the Knowledge Worker Meaningful Government Reorganization The Decline in Unionization The Future of Health Care The Professor as Featherbedder The Schools in 1990 Part IV People at Work. Unmaking the Nineteenth Century Retirement Policy Report on the Class of '68 Meaningful Unemployment Figures Baby-Boom Problems Planning for Redundant Workers The Job as Property Right Part V The Changing Globe. The Rise of Production Sharing Japan's Economic Policy Turn The Battle Over Co-Determination A Troubled Japanese Juggernaut India and Appropriate Technology Toward a New Form of Money? How Westernized Are the Japanese? Needed: A Full-Investment Budget A Return to Hard Choices A Final Note: The Matter of "Business Ethics."