The frontiers of management /
Peter F. Drucker.
- Boston : Harvard Business Review Press, 2010.
- xxix, 352 p. ; 25 cm.
- The Drucker library .
"Where tomorrow's decisions are being shaped today"--Jkt. Includes index.
Preface : the future is being shaped today -- Interview : a talk with a wide-ranging mind -- The changed world economy -- America's entrepreneurial job machine -- Why OPEC had to fail -- The changing multinational -- Managing currency exposure -- Export markets and domestic policies -- Europe's high-tech ambitions -- What we can learn from the Germans -- On entering the Japanese market -- Trade with Japan : the way it works -- The perils of adversarial trade -- Modern prophets : Schumpeter or Keynes? -- Picking people : the basic rules -- Measuring white-collar productivity -- Twilight of the first-line supervisor? -- Overpaid executives : the greed effect -- Overage executives : keeping firms young -- Paying the professional schools -- Jobs and people : the growing mismatch -- Quality education : the new growth area -- Management : the problems of success -- Getting control of staff work -- Slimming management's midriff -- The information-based organization -- Are labor unions becoming irrelevant? -- Union flexibility : why it's now a must -- Management as a liberal art -- The hositle takeover and its discontents -- The five rules of successful acquisitions -- The innovative organization -- The no-growth enterprise -- Why automation pays off -- IBM's Watson : vision for tomorrow -- The lessons of the bell breakup -- Social needs and business opportunities.