The famous management thinker and independent analyst offers a collection of autobiographical stories and vignettes that explore his life and times (view table of contents)

Product Description: "This completely revised edition is just as fresh, relevant, and innovative today as the first edition was more than 20 years ago. Many consider its author, Bernard Haldane, one of the founders of the modern career counseling movement...read more

Product Description: Peter Drucker won wide acclaim as the founder of the discipline of management and as the most influential thinker and writer on modern organizations. The wealth of essays he published at the height of his career are surprisingly relevant today, even prescient...read more

The shift in the U.S. global role precipitated by the events of September 11, 2001although the events were unexpectedwas a long time in the making. In this challenging work, Gilbert Achcar analyzes how this shift came about and examines its fateful consequences.Achcar'sClash of Barbarismstraces the rise of militant and anti-Western Islamic fundamentalism to its roots in U.S. policies aimed at control of the oil reserves of the Middle East, and above all, Saudi Arabiathe "Muslim Texas." Achcar examines the political premises of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda and show how these led to the massive miscalculation of the September 11 attacks, with results both politically counterproductive and morally reprehensible.The major result of this miscalculation has been to complete a shift from the vision of a world order based on international law and respecting the rights of strong and weak nations alike, announced by George Bush, Sr., in 1991, to the world order being created by the administration of George W. Bush today, in which the United States asserts its own power and pursues its interests without regard for law or rights. In this context, we are living through a "clash of barbarisms" indeed.This important and timely work is already scheduled for publication in French, English, German, Turkish, and Korean. It draws on first-hand knowledge of the Middle East, but looks beyond immediate events to clarify their geopolitical bases.

Product Description: "This inquiry into the probable shape of things to come is sober, uncompromising, deeply informed, and full of provocative insights and judicious analyses." Noam Chomsky "The most forceful, most rigorous text that there is to read on this war...read more

Product Description: "This inquiry into the probable shape of things to come is sober, uncompromising, deeply informed, and full of provocative insights and judicious analyses." Noam Chomsky "The most forceful, most rigorous text that there is to read on this war...read more

Product Description: For nearly half a century, Peter Drucker inspired and educated managers—and powerfully shaped the nature of business—with his landmark articles in Harvard Business Review. Here, framed by a thoughtful introduction from "HBR" editor Thomas A...read more

A management consultant presents a case study of the General Motors Corporation in order to explore the structure and dynamics of large-scale business organizations

Shares a year's worth of advice for business people in a volume that conveys the author's trademark philosophies about the individual, management, society, and change.

Product Description: A pioneering collection of essays which give a sample of some of the most interesting work being done on the lesbian and gay movements in various third world countries including Brazil, Mexico, Kenya, India and China. The eleven essays are edited by Peter Drucker, a well-respected academic in the field of gay and lesbian studies...read more

Product Description: "This is a time to shape the future--precisely because everything is in flux. This is a time for self-assessment, clear-minded decisions, and, above all, a time for action." --Peter F. Drucker "As a tool for clarifying the thinking of volunteer boards, the Self-Assessment Tool is unparalleled...read more

Product Description: "This is a time to shape the future--precisely because everything is in flux. This is a time for self-assessment, clear-minded decisions, and, above all, a time for action." --Peter F. Drucker "As a tool for clarifying the thinking of volunteer boards, the Self-Assessment Tool is unparalleled...read more

Product Description: This complete package includes one User's Guide and ten Participant's Workbooks which provide an overview of the self-assessment process and offer guidelines for facilitators. The workbooks guide participants through a series of worksheets toward greater understanding of their organization's mission and direction...read more

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Product Description: "This is a time to shape the future--precisely because everything is in flux. This is a time for self-assessment, clear-minded decisions, and, above all, a time for action." --Peter F. Drucker "As a tool for clarifying the thinking of volunteer boards, the Self-Assessment Tool is unparalleled...read more

Two leading business figures consider the changes occurring in the economic world today and identify the challenges that free markets now face (view table of contents)

Periods of great social change reveal a tension between the need for continuity and the need for innovation. The twentieth century has witnessed both radical alteration and tenacious durability in social organization, politics, economics, and art. To comprehend these changes as history and as guideposts to the future, Peter F. Drucker has, over a lifetime, pursued a discipline that he terms social ecology. The writings brought together in The Ecological Vision define the discipline as a sustained inquiry into the man-made environment and an active effort at maintaining equilibrium between change and conservation. The chapters in this volume range over a wide array of disciplines and subject matter. They are linked by a common concern with the interaction of the individual and society, and a common perspective that views economics, technology, politics, and art as dimensions of social experience and expressions of social value. Included here are profiles of such figures as Henry Ford, John C. Calhoun, Soren Kierkegaard, and Thomas Watson; analyses of the economics of Keynes and Schumpeter;and explorations of the social functions of business, management, information, and technology. Drucker's chapters on Japan examine the dynamics of cultural and economic change and afford striking comparisons with similar processes in the West. In the concluding chapter, "Reflections of a Social Ecologist," Drucker traces the development of his discipline through such intellectual antecedents as Alexis de Tocqueville, Walter Bagehot, and Wilhelm von Humboldt. He illustrates the ecological vision, an active, practical, and moral approach to social questions. Peter Drucker summarizes a lifetime of work and exemplifies the communicative clarity that are requisites of all intellectual enterprises. His book will be of interest to economists, business people, foreign affairs specialists, and intellectual historians. (view table of contents)

Intelligence, imagination and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that convert these into results. This title ranges widely through the annals of business and government to demonstrate the distinctive skill of the executive. It identifies five talents essential to effectiveness.