ABSTRACT
The book brings together this celebrated author's most useful ideas and insights on ways in which managers can better understand the new duties and responsibilities created by their constantly changing world. `a brilliant collection of forty of his articles, most of which were published originally in the Wall Street Journal....absorbing even to the non-specialist' Publishers Weekly The book brings together this celebrated author's most useful ideas and insights on ways in which managers can better understand the new duties and responsibilities created by their constantly changing world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part
Introduction A Society of Organizations
part |3 pages
I EXECUTIVE AGENDA
chapter |5 pages
1 Inflation-Proofing the Company
chapter |6 pages
2 A Scorecard for Management
chapter |5 pages
3 Helping Small Businesses Cope
chapter |6 pages
4 Is Executive Pay Excessive?
chapter |5 pages
5 On Mandatory Executive Retirement
chapter |5 pages
6 The Real Duties of a Director
chapter |5 pages
7 The Information Explosion
chapter |5 pages
8 Learning From Foreign Management
part |55 pages
II business performance
chapter |5 pages
9 The Delusion of Profits
chapter |7 pages
10 Aftermath of a Go-Go Decade
chapter |7 pages
11 Managing Capital Productivity
chapter |6 pages
12 Six Durable Economi Myths
chapter |6 pages
13 Measuring Business Performance
chapter |6 pages
14 Why Consumers Aren't Behaving
chapter |5 pages
15 Good Growth and Bad Growth
chapter |5 pages
16 The “Re-Industrialization” of America
chapter |5 pages
17 The Danger of Excessive Labor Income
part |40 pages
III the non-profit sector
chapter |5 pages
18 Managing the Non-Profit Institution
chapter |6 pages
19 Managing the Knowledge Worker
chapter |4 pages
20 Meaningful Government Reorganization
chapter |5 pages
21 The Decline in Unionization
chapter |5 pages
22 The Future of Health Care
chapter |6 pages
23 The Professor as Featherbedder
chapter |5 pages
24 The Schools in 1990
part |39 pages
IV PEOPLE AT WORK
chapter |7 pages
25 Unmaking the Nineteenth Century
chapter |5 pages
26 Retirement Policy
chapter |4 pages
27 Report on the Class of ߣ68
chapter |5 pages
28 Meaningful Unemployment Figures
chapter |4 pages
29 Baby-Boom Problems
chapter |6 pages
30 Planning for Redundant Workers
chapter |4 pages
31 The Job as Property Right
part |74 pages
V the changing globe