ABSTRACT
'It is not so very difficult to predict the future. It is only pointless...what is always far more important are fundamental changes that happened though no one predicted them or could possible have predicted them.' (quote taken from this book)
It is these unpredictable and irreversible changes from the past, and their effect on the role of the executive which Peter Drucker examines in his latest book.
The management of change is a subject which has been, undoubtedly, the principal preoccupation of management thinkers in the 1990s. Peter Drucker, the guru's guru, brings together a group of his own original essays and interviews on this vitally important topic. As ever, he provides invaluable food for thought for all executives and students of business and management.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |47 pages
Management
chapter |16 pages
The Theory of the Business
chapter |5 pages
Planning for uncertainty
chapter |5 pages
The five deadly business sins
chapter |6 pages
Managing the family business
chapter |5 pages
Six rules for presidents
chapter |8 pages
Managing in the network society
part |58 pages
The Information-based Organization
chapter |19 pages
The New Society of Organizations
chapter |5 pages
There's Three Kinds of Teams
chapter |5 pages
The Information Revolution in Retail
chapter |5 pages
Be Data Literate; Know What to Know
chapter |4 pages
We Need to Measure, Not Count
chapter |18 pages
The Information Executives Need Today
part |59 pages
The Economy
chapter |19 pages
Trade lessons from the world economy
chapter |5 pages
The US economy's power shift
chapter |5 pages
Where the new markets are
chapter |4 pages
The Pacific Rim and the world economy
chapter |5 pages
China's growth markets
chapter |8 pages
The end of Japan, Inc?
chapter |5 pages
A weak dollar strengthens japan
chapter |6 pages
The new superpower the overseas chinese
part |108 pages
The Society