Peter F. Drucker on Globalization

410 Pages·2020·3.613 MB·English

by  Peter F. Drucker

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CONTENTS
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Preface: The Future Is Being Shaped Today
Interview: A Talk with a Wide-Ranging Mind
Part I: Economics
ONE: The Changed World Economy
TWO: America’s Entrepreneurial Job Machine
THREE: Why OPEC Had to Fail
FOUR: The Changing Multinational
FIVE: Managing Currency Exposure
SIX: Export Markets and Domestic Policies
SEVEN: Europe’s High-Tech Ambitions
EIGHT: What We Can Learn from the Germans
NINE: On Entering the Japanese Market
TEN: Trade with Japan: The Way It Works
ELEVEN: The Perils of Adversarial Trade
TWELVE: Modern Prophets: Schumpeter or Keynes?
Part II: People
THIRTEEN: Picking People: The Basic Rules
FOURTEEN: Measuring White-Collar Productivity
FIFTEEN: Twilight of the First-Line Supervisor?
SIXTEEN: Overpaid Executives: The Greed Effect
SEVENTEEN: Overage Executives: Keeping Firms Young
EIGHTEEN: Paying the Professional Schools
NINETEEN: Jobs and People: The Growing Mismatch
TWENTY: Quality Education: The New Growth Area
Part III: Management
TWENTY-ONE: Management: The Problems of Success
TWENTY-TWO: Getting Control of Staff Work
TWENTY-THREE: Slimming Management’s Midriff
TWENTY-FOUR: The Information-Based Organization
TWENTY-FIVE: Are Labor Unions Becoming Irrelevant?
TWENTY-SIX: Union Flexibility: Why It’s Now a Must
TWENTY-SEVEN: Management as a Liberal Art
Part IV: The Organization
TWENTY-EIGHT: The Hostile Takeover and Its Discontents
TWENTY-NINE: The Five Rules of Successful Acquisitions
THIRTY: The Innovative Organization
THIRTY-ONE: The No-Growth Enterprise
THIRTY-TWO: Why Automation Pays Off
THIRTY-THREE: IBM’s Watson: Vision for Tomorrow
THIRTY-FOUR: The Lessons of the Bell Breakup
THIRTY-FIVE: Social Needs and Business Opportunities
Afterword: Social Innovation—Management’s New
Dimension
Acknowledgments
Index