Peter Drucker on the Profession of Management
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Published: July 10, 2003
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781591393221
Subjects: Management & management techniques; Management - General; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics
First sentence: "NOT in a very long time-not, perhaps, since the late 1940s or early 1950s-have there been as many new major management techniques as there are today: downsizing, outsourcing, total quality management, economic value analysis, benchmarking, reengineering."
Table of contents: title: Preface : The future that has already happened; title: Introduction / Nan Stone; title: Part one : The manager's responsibilities.; title: The theory of the business; title: The effective decision; title: How to make people decisions; title: The big power of little Ideas; title: The discipline of innovation; title: Managing for business effectiveness; title: Part two : The executive's world.; title: The information executives truly need; title: The coming of the new organization; title: The new society of organizations; title: What business can learn from nonprofits; title: The new productivity challenge; title: Management and the world's work; title: The post-capitalist executive : An interview with Peter F. Drucker / T. George Harris; title: About the author