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It is difficult to imagine management without Peter Drucker.
Of all the great management thinkers he has been the most enduring, influential
and widely read. His books on management and on industrial and post industrial
society have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Management
Today succinctly places him 'in a class of his own'. His
latest book, Frontiers of Management, will make stimulating and profitable
reading for both existing Drucker disciples and those new to his writing. This
collection of thirty-five finely balanced articles and essays, plus an interview
and afterword, was planned by the author from the beginning to be published eventually
in one volume and as variations on one unifying theme -- the challenges of tomorrow
that face the executive body. What kind of tomorrow it
will be depends heavily on the knowledge, insight, foresight and competence of
the decision makers of today. The future is in the hands of executives who are
already fully occupied with the daily crisis, and for whom the daily crisis is
the one absolutely predictable event in their working day. It is to these people
that this new Drucker volume is addressed, to enable them to see and to understand
the long-range applications of their immediate, everyday, urgent actions and decisions.
Frontiers of Management not only aims at providing and
promoting knowledge, insight, foresight and competence -- it aims at creating
vision. Born in Vienna in 1909, Peter F. Drucker
was educated in Austria and England. From 1929 he was a newspaper correspondent
abroad and an economist for an international bank in London. Since 1937 he has
been in the United States, first as an economist for a group of British banks
and insurance companies, and later as a management consultant to several of the
country's largest companies, as well as to leading companies abroad. From
1942 to 1949 Mr. Drucker was professor of philosophy and politics at Bennington
College; from 1950 to 1972 he was professor of management at New York University's
Graduate School of Business; since then he has been professor of social science
at Claremont Graduate School in California. His books include The
New Society, The Effective
Executive, The Practice of
Management, Big Business,
Landmarks of Tomorrow, Managing
for Results, The Age of Discontinuity,
Technology, Management and Society,
The New Markets…and Other Essays,
People and Performance, Management
Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices,
Management Cases, Managing
in Turbulent Times, Adventures
of a Bystander and Innovation
and Entrepreneurship.
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