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| Named Person: | Peter F Drucker |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter F Drucker |
| ISBN: | 0066210879 9780066210872 9780061345012 0061345016 0750650184 9780750650182 |
| OCLC Number: | 47251668 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | x, 358 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Other Titles: | Works. |
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"...required reading for management students and practitioners alike ... a highly readable single volume survey of concepts that would otherwise involve reading nearly 30 separate books ...this is an extremely useful and thought-provoking compendium. Read 'The Essential Drucker' and become an instant expert on this most durable of management writers."Alan Fowler - People Management, September 2001"This is a book for everyone in management."Sidney Callis, Business Executive"This is effectively a whole business library and refresher MBA course in one readable volume that wears its enormous wisdom lightly enough to make good holiday reading. It is stuffed with practical & inspirational advice, as useful to owner-managers of small businesses as to blue-chip board directors or administrators of non-profitmaking organisations"Carol Kennedy, Director Read more...
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