ABSTRACT

The Frontiers of Management offers stimulating and profitable reading for both existing Drucker disciples and those new to his writing.

This collection of thirty-five finely balanced articles and essays, plus an interview and afterword, was planned by the author from the beginning to be published eventually in one volume and as variations on one unifying theme - the challenges of tomorrow that face the executive today.

What kind of tomorrow it will be depends heavily on the knowledge, insight, foresight and competence of the decision makers of today. The future is in the hands of executives who are already fully occupied with the daily crisis, and for whom the daily crisis is the one absolutely predictable event in their working day. It is to these people that this Drucker volume is addressed, to enable them to see and to understand the long-range implications and impacts of their immediate, everyday, urgent actions and decisions.

chapter |17 pages

Interview

A Talk with a Wide-Ranging Mind

part |97 pages

Economics

chapter |29 pages

The Changed World Economy

chapter |6 pages

America's Entrepreneurial Job Machine

chapter |5 pages

Why OPEC Had to Fail

chapter |5 pages

The Changing Multinational

chapter |5 pages

Managing Currency Exposure

chapter |5 pages

Export Markets and Domestic Policies

chapter |5 pages

Europe's High-Tech Ambitions

chapter |5 pages

What We Can Learn from the Germans

chapter |6 pages

On Entering the Japanese Market

chapter |6 pages

Trade with Japan: The Way It Works

chapter |6 pages

The Perils of Adversarial Trade

chapter |12 pages

Modern Prophets: Schumpeter or Keynes?

part |48 pages

People

chapter |10 pages

Picking People: The Basic Rules

chapter |5 pages

Measuring White-Collar Productivity

chapter |4 pages

Twilight of the First-Line Supervisor?

chapter |6 pages

Overpaid Executives: The Greed Effect

chapter |5 pages

Overage Executives: Keeping Firms Young

chapter |5 pages

Paying the Professional Schools

chapter |6 pages

Jobs and People: The Growing Mismatch

chapter |5 pages

Quality Education: The New Growth Area

part |63 pages

Management

chapter |27 pages

Management: The Problems of Success

chapter |4 pages

Getting Control of Staff Work

chapter |5 pages

Slimming Management's Midriff

chapter |5 pages

The Information-Based Organization

chapter |6 pages

Are Labor Unions Becoming Irrelevant?

chapter |6 pages

Union Flexibility: Why It's Now a Must

chapter |8 pages

Management as a Liberal Art

part |111 pages

The Organization

chapter |26 pages

The Hostile Takeover and Its Discontents

chapter |6 pages

The Innovative Organization

chapter |4 pages

The No-Growth Enterprise

chapter |4 pages

Why Automation Pays Off

chapter |14 pages

IBM's Watson: Vision for Tomorrow

chapter |31 pages

The Lessons of the Bell Breakup

chapter |20 pages

Social Needs and Business Opportunities