Managing in a Time of Great Change

• Main Author: Drucker, Peter F. 1909-2005 (Peter Ferdinand) (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2016
• Subjects: Business and Management; Organizational change > Management
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A new, exciting, wide-ranging guide for navigating the rapids-strewn course that will take the American economy into the 21st century, Managing in a Time of Great Change covers such issues as the U.S. economy's profound and rapid power shift, competition in the global economy, and ways to devel...

Table of Contents:

• Preface; Acknowledgements; Interview: The post-capitalist executive; Management - The theory of the business; Planning for uncertainty; The five deadly business sins; Managing the family business; Six rules for presidents; Managing in the network society; The information-based organization - The new society of organizations; There's three kinds of teams; The information revolution in retail; Be data literate: know what to know; We need to measure, not count; The information executives need today; The economy - Trade lessons from the world economy; The US economy's power shift; Where the new markets are; The Pacific Rim and the world economy; China's growth markets; The end of Japan, Inc?; A weak dollar strengthens Japan; The new superpower: the overseas Chinese; The society - A century of social transformations; It profits us to strengthen non-profits; Knowledge work and gender roles; Reinventing government; Can the democracies win the peace?; Conclusion; Interview: Managing in a post-capitalist society; Index.