Classic Drucker : essential wisdom of Peter Drucker from the pages of Harvard Business Review.
- Boston : Harvard Business Review Book, c2006.
- x, 221 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Managing oneself -- The theory of the business -- The effective decision -- They're not employees, they're people -- How to make people decisions -- The discipline of innovation -- Managing for business effectiveness -- The information executives truly need -- What makes an effective executive -- The coming of the new organization -- The new society of organizations -- The new productivity challenge -- What business can learn from nonprofits -- Management and the world's work -- The post-capitalist executive : an interview with Peter F. Drucker.
This book gathers together Peter Drucker's articles from Harvard Business Review and frames them with a thoughtful introduction from the review's editor, Tom Stewart. One of this century's most highly regarded students of management, Drucker has sought out, identified, and examined the most important issues confronting managers, from corporate strategy to management style to social change. Through his unique lens, this volume gives us the rare opportunity to trace the evolution of the great shifts in our workplaces and to understand more clearly the role of managers. taken from the publisher's Site.