Essential Drucker The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management

Name: Essential Drucker The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management
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ISBN: 9780061345012

ISBN-10: 0061345016

ISBN-13: 9780061345012

Edition: 2008

Authors: Peter F. Drucker

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Father of modern management, social commentator, and preeminent business philosopher, Peter F. Drucker analyzed economics and society for more than sixty years. Now for readers everywhere who are concerned with the ways that management practices and principles affect the performance of organizations, individuals, and society, there is The Essential Drucker-an invaluable compilation of essential materials from the works of a management legend. Containing twenty-six core selections, The Essential Drucker 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…

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List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 7/22/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Peter F. Drucker has been Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at Claremont Graduate School in California since 1971.



Introduction: The Origin and Purpose of The Essential Drucker



Management



Management as Social Function and Liberal Art



The Dimensions 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


Index