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The essential Drucker : the best of sixty years of Peter Drucker's essential writings on management / Peter F. Drucker.

by Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005.

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Collins Business Essentials, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2008, c2001.

Industrial management.

Success in business.

Management -- History.

Entrepreneurship.

9780061345012 (pbk.)

1st Collins Business Essential pbk. ed.

x, 357 pages ; 21 cm.

Originally published: HarperBusiness, c2001.

Includes index.

Management as social function and liberal art -- The dimensions of management -- The purpose and objectives of a business -- What the nonprofits are teaching business -- Social impacts and social problems -- Management's new paradigms -- The information executives need today -- Management by objectives and self-control -- Picking people : the basic rules -- The entrepreneurial business -- The new venture -- Entrepreneurial strategies -- Effectiveness must be learned -- Focus on contribution -- Know your strengths and values -- Know your time -- Effective decisions -- Functioning communications -- Leadership as work -- Principles of innovation -- The second half of your life -- The educated person -- A century of social transformation : emergence of knowledge society -- The coming of entrepreneurial society -- Citizenship through the social sector -- From analysis to perception : the new worldview.

Father of modern management, social commentator, and preeminent business philosopher, Peter F. Drucker analyzed economics and society for more than sixty years. Now for those who are concerned with the ways that management practices and principles affect the performance of organizations, individuals, and society, here is a compilation of essential materials from the works of a management legend. These twenty-six selections cover the basic principles and concerns of management and its problems, challenges, and opportunities, giving managers, executives, and professionals the tools to perform the tasks that the economy and society of tomorrow will demand of them.

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