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No thinker in the world today understands the art and science
of business and management better than Peter Drucker. His writings have set the
standard of analysis and advice for a generation and more. As this major new book
vividly demonstrates, he illuminates the cutting edge of business challenge in
our era of high-pressure change. Here is Peter Drucker
at his most cogent and compelling as he does what he does best: showing us what
is rather than what is supposed to be in the ways businesses operate and should
be run; examining current management trends and catchphrases to make clear what
they really mean and if they really work; and providing vital perspective by placing
business activity in the broader context of government, society, technology, and
the world economy. Among the essential topics that Drucker
incisively examines are: The meaning and message of the Information Age. The implications
for business in the reinvention of government. The shifting balance of power between
management and labor. The widely differing kinds of teamwork that an organization
can chose. The lessons we can learn from such case histories as the rise and fall
and rise again of such corporate giants as IBM and General Motors. What the most
important new jobs will be in the years and decades to come. Why Data management
has become the keystone of management success. The fading boundary lines between
profit and nonprofit organizations. The question of in-house versus outsourcing
. The delicate and decisive relationship between America and Japan. The promise
and perils of China and other emerging powers on the Pacific Rim.
Managing
in a Time of Great Change shows Peter Drucker at his best: understanding how
things can be made to work in the ceaselessly changing business world around us.
And there's a bonus: more wide-ranging analytical chapter/narratives than in any
Drucker book in years. From his first book, The
End of Economic Man (1939), to his recent Managing for the Future (1992)
and Post-Capitalist Society (1993), the incomparable Peter Drucker has
been hailed in the United States and abroad as the seminal thinker, writer, and
lecturer of our time on the twentieth-century business organization in all of
its for-profit and nonprofit guises and forms. The recipient of many awards and
honorary degrees, Peter Drucker has since 1971 been Clarke Professor of Social
Sciences at Claremont Graduate School, which recently named its Management Center
after him. He is also an editorial page columnist for The Wall Street Journal.
He and his wife, Doris, live in Claremont, California.
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