Drucker writes with penetrating insight about the critical issues facing managers in the 1990s: the world economic order; people at work; new trends in management and the governance of organizations.

Auteur

Peter F. Drucker

Contenu

Introduction Interview; Part 1 Economics; Chapter 1 The Futures Already Around Us; Chapter 2 The Poverty of Economic Theory; Chapter 3 The Transnational Economy; Chapter 4 From World Trade to World Investment; Chapter 5 The Lessons of the U.S. Export Boom; Chapter 6 Low Wages; Chapter 7 Europe in the 1990s; Chapter 8 U.S.-Japan Trade Needs a Reality Check; Chapter 9 Japan's Great Postwar Weapon; Chapter 10 Misinterpreting Japan and the Japanese; Chapter 11 Help Latin America and Help Ourselves; Chapter 12 Mexico's Ace in the Hole; Part 2 People; Chapter 13 The New Productivity Challenge; Chapter 14 The Mystique of the Business Leader; Chapter 15 Leadership; Chapter 16 People, Work, and the Future of the City; Chapter 17 The Rise and Fall of the Blue-Collar Worker; Chapter 18 On Ending Work Rules and Job Descriptions; Chapter 19 Making Managers of Communist Bureaucrats; Chapter 20 China's Nightmare; Part 3 Management; Chapter 21 Tomorrow's Managers; Chapter 22 How to Manage the Boss; Chapter 23 What Really Ails the U.S. Auto Industry; Chapter 24 Manage by Walking Around - Outside!; Chapter 25 Corporate Culture; Chapter 26 Permanent Cost Cutting; Chapter 27 What the Nonprofits Are Teaching Business; Chapter 28 Nonprofit Governance; Chapter 29 The Nonprofits' Outreach Revolution; Part 4 The Organization; Chapter 30 The Governance of Corporations; Chapter 31 Four Marketing Lessons for the Future; Chapter 32 Tomorrow's Company; Chapter 33 Company Performance; Chapter 34 R & D; Chapter 35 Sell the Mailroom; Chapter 36 The 10 Rules of Effective Research; Chapter 37 The Trend Toward Alliances for Progress; Chapter 38 A Crisis of Capitalism; Chapter 39 The Emerging Theory of Manufacturing; Chapter 40 Afterword;