Peter F Drucker
Author
Publisher
HarperBusiness
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Peter F. Drucker discusses how the new paradigms of management have changed and will continue to change our basic assumptions about the practices and principles of management. Forward-looking and forward thinking, Management Challenges for the 21st Century combines the broad knowledge, wide practical experience, profound insight, sharp analysis, and enlightened common sense that are the essence of Drucker's writings.
Author
Language
English
Description
This book, the author explains, "is concerned with action rather than understanding, with decisions rather than analysis." It deals with the strategies needed to transform rapid changes into opportunities, to turn the threat of change into productive and profitable action that contributes positively to our society, the economy, and the individual.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
The groundbreaking and premier work on nonprofit organizations.
The nonprofit sector is growing rapidly, creating a major need for expert advice on how to manage these organizations effectively. Management legend Peter Drucker provides excellent examples and explanations of mission, leadership, resources, marketing, goals, and much more. Interviews with nine experts also address key issues in this booming sector.
Author
Publisher
HarperBusiness
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
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. This searching and incisive analysis of the major world transformation now taking place shows how it will affect society, economics, business, and politics and explains how we are moving...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[1954]
Language
English
Description
A classic since its publication in 1954, The Practice of Management was the first book to look at management as a whole and being a manager as a separate responsibility. The Practice of Management created the discipline of modern management practices. Readable, fundamental, and basic, it remains an essential book for students, aspiring managers, and seasoned professionals.
6) Management
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The essential book on management from the man who invented the discipline. Now completely revised and updated for the first time.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
Management is an organized body of knowledge. This management classic has been developed and tested during more than thirty years of teaching management in universities, in executive programs and seminars and through the author's close work with managers as a consultant for large and small businesses, government agencies, hospitals and schools. Drucker discusses the tools and techniques of successful management practice that have been proven effective,...
Author
Publisher
HarperBusiness
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Revered management thinker Peter F. Drucker is our trusted guide in this thoughtful, day-by-day companion that offers his penetrating and practical wisdom. Amid the multiple pressures of our daily work lives, The Daily Drucker provides the inspiration and advice to meet the many challenges we face. With his trademark clarity, vision, and humanity, Drucker sets out his ideas on a broad swath of key topics, from time management, to innovation, to outsourcing,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Change has become a constant. Changes in the way we live and work. Changes in institutions and the society around us. Changes in people's needs and desires. For more than 60 years, Peter Drucker has been modern society's preeminent thinker, lecturer, and writer of and about change and its effect on management.
Now, at the start of the 21st century, this major new title takes the listener into two broad areas of life today: first, the information...
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline. It clearly explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy. Peter Drucker, the most influential and widely-read thinker and writer on modern organizations, gives us a superbly practical book that explains what established businesses, public service institutions, and new ventures have to know,...
12) The essential Drucker: the best of sixty years of Peter Drucker's essential writings on management
Author
Publisher
HarperBusiness
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
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...
13) Managing oneself
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"With ambition, drive, and talent, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession regardless of where you started out. But companies today aren't managing your career-- you must be your own chief executive officer. It's up to you to carve out your place in the world and know when to change course. In this short work Drucker gives you the keys to unlock your full potential so that you can achieve true and lasting excellence." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvard Business School Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"For Nearly Half a Century Peter Drucker has inspired and educated managers - and influenced the nature of business - with his landmark articles in the Harvard Business Review. Here, gathered together and framed by a thoughtful introduction from the Review's editor Nan Stone, is a collection of his most significant work." "One of our leading thinkers on the practice and study of management. Drucker has sought out, identified, and examined the most...