Peter F Drucker
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The best of Peter F. Drucker's articles on management, all in one place.
That "management" exists as a concept, a practice, and a profession is largely due to the thinking of Peter F. Drucker. For nearly half a century, he inspired and educated managers-and powerfully shaped the nature of business-with his iconic articles in Harvard Business Review.
Through the lens of Drucker's broad vision, this volume presents an opportunity to trace the great...
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In his sixty-five-year consulting career, Peter F. Drucker, widely regarded as the father of modern management, identified eight practices that can make any executive effective. Leadership is not about charisma or extroversion. It's about these practices: Effective executives ask, "What needs to be done?" They also ask, "What is right for the enterprise?" They develop action plans. They take responsibility for decisions. They take responsibility for...
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The effective business, Peter Drucker observes, focuses on opportunities rather than problems. How this focus is achieved in order to make the organization prosper and grow is the subject of this companion to his classic work, The Practice of Management. Managing for Results shows what the executive decision maker must do to move his enterprise forward. Drucker again employs his particular genius for breaking through conventional outlooks and opening...
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We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: with ambition, drive, and talent, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession regardless of where you started out. But with opportunity comes responsibility. Companies today aren't managing their knowledge workers careers. Instead, you must be your own chief executive officer. That means it's up to you to carve out your place in the world and know when to change course. And it's up to you to keep...
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Following in the successful vein of Managing for the Future (1992) and Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995), the incomparable Peter Drucker is back with fresh thoughts, insights, and knowledge about the ever-changing business society around us and the ever-expanding management roles required of us all-chiefs, executives, managers, and knowledge workers alike.
Two main themes are explored in many of the chapters in Managing in the Next Society:...
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Three complete Drucker management books in one volume - Managing for Results, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and The Effective Executive with a new preface by the author. In his preface, Peter F. Drucker says: "These three books should enable executives - whether high up in the organization or just beginning their career- to know the right things to do;- to know how to do them; and- to do them effectively. Together, these three books provide The...
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Peter Drucker's classic book on innovation and entrepreneurship
This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline that explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy. Superbly practical, Innovation and Entrepreneurship explains what established businesses, public service institutions, and new ventures need to know and do to succeed in today's...
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The Best of Peter F. Drucker on Non-Profits and the Public Sector
Peter F. Drucker's classic and timeless insights on improving effectiveness in the public sector-including government agencies, hospitals, universities, and other nonprofits-are as relevant now as when they were written.
In these prescient essays, Drucker explores the merits of proper governance for nonprofits and the public sector by offering advice and guidance on effective business...
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How to Adjust to Shifts in the Economy
In these forty salient essays, renowned management thinker Peter F. Drucker explores how social, political, and economic contexts impact the manager's role. Considered against the backdrop of the twenty-first-century marketplace, with its breathless pace, complex political issues, economic threats, and ruthless global competition, the book's wisdom and insights are classic Drucker: timeless, prescient, and practical.
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Peter Drucker is widely regarded as the father of modern management, offering penetrating insights into business that still resonate today. But Drucker also offers deep wisdom on how to manage our personal lives and how to become more effective leaders. In these two classic articles from Harvard Business Review, Drucker reveals the keys to becoming your own chief executive officer as well as a better leader of others. "Managing Oneself" identifies...
11) Management Cases
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The companion to Drucker's seminal work Management, completely revised and updated Management Cases, Revised Edition is a collection of thought-provoking case studies-each a timeless representative of a challenge that all managers will face at some point in their careers. Longtime Drucker colleague, collaborator, and eminent management professor Joseph A. Maciariello has organized the material to be used in conjunction with Management, Revised Edition,...
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The Wider World in Which Business Operates
The political issues impacting our global economy have changed dramatically in the decades since Peter F. Drucker first wrote the essays in this book, but the relationship between business, government, and society remains a potent driver of national and global prosperity.
In this collection of essays, Drucker explores the nuances of economic and political shifts and the impact of these shifts on the environment...
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Leading in a Technology-Driven World
The relationship of humans to technology is a ubiquitous theme in today's world of mobile devices, 24/7 internet access, and omnipresent digital business tools. The essays in this collection don't focus on a specific technology but on the challenges technology creates for management. In them Peter F. Drucker explores how managers can harness technology to enable workers to be more productive.
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Peter F. Drucker argues that what underlies the current malaise of so many large and successful organizations worldwide is that their theory of the business no longer works. The story is a familiar one: a company that was a superstar only yesterday finds itself stagnating and frustrated, in trouble and, often, in a seemingly unmanageable crisis. The root cause of nearly every one of these crises is not that things are being done poorly. It is not...
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Turning Insight into Action
In this collection of essays, Peter F. Drucker focuses on the steps leaders can take today to prepare themselves and their organizations for tomorrow. Covering key areas such as technology, economics, people, and the organization, Drucker shows managers how to put his advice and ideas into action.
Throughout the book, Drucker brings clear-sighted analysis to an array of subjects that remain as relevant today as they were...
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Succeeding in the Network Economy
Peter F. Drucker has inspired and educated managers and influenced the practice of management for generations. Writing across six decades, Drucker was one of the first business thinkers to understand the new rules as well as the skills required for success in the network economy.
In this collection of essays, Drucker offers timeless insights on what it takes to lead a profitable enterprise in a time when networks...
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Managing in a Globalized Economy
In this collection of essays, renowned management thinker and teacher Peter F. Drucker guides leaders on how to find opportunities and make the right decisions in a business context that is increasingly global.
This collection delivers a set of urgently needed lessons on how business leaders today can manage through complexity and volatility-and make the wisest possible choices while balancing the perils and promise...
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Classic Advice for Today's Management Challenges
Peter F. Drucker's timeless thinking on management--distilled in this series of concise essays--examines the basic questions and issues that managers face. In rapidly changing times, Drucker's legendary wisdom is even more vitally relevant, going beyond traditional thinking to insights of enduring value.
The ideas and themes of this easy-to-read guide are based on direct experience and knowledge from...
19) HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership (with featured article "What Makes an Effective Executive," by
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Go from being a good manager to an extraordinary leader.
If you read nothing else on leadership, read these 10 articles (featuring "What Makes an Effective Executive," by Peter F. Drucker). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on leadership and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your own and your organization's performance.
HBR's 10 Must Reads On Leadership will inspire you to:
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20) HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (with bonus article "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by
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The path to your professional success starts with a critical look in the mirror.
If you read nothing else on managing yourself, read these 10 articles (plus the bonus article "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton M. Christensen). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles to select the most important ones to help you maximize yourself.
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself will inspire you to:
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