Offers an incisive analysis of the key business trends, issues, and developments of the near future and their potential ramifications--in terms of both problems and opportunities--for America and the world

Product Description: Book by Sloan, Alfred P., Jr., Drucker, Peter Ferdinand

Discusses the fundamental principles, methods, and strategies of managing a nonprofit organization, offering practical advice on leadership, decision making, goals, marketing, development, and resources (view table of contents)

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)

Presents an analysis of the realities of major developments in world economic society, in sections covering industrial society, postindustrial society, pension fund society, and managerial society

A guide to management in an era of high interest rates discusses the full spectrum of today's concerns with an eye to the future

Discusses the fundamental principles, methods, and strategies of managing a nonprofit organization, offering practical advice on leadership, decision making, goals, marketing, development, and resources. Reprint.

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)

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Product Description: Savvy executives have long relied on the insights of Peter Drucker. Here the world's most influential management thinker gives his enlightening views on the business challenges of the present and the future. Reader Joseph Campanella's long career in American theater and TV includes ten Broadway plays, over six hundred television shows and over twenty motion pictures...read more

Product Description: Book by Drucker, Peter Ferdinand, Rossum, Constance

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

Managing in Turbulent Times tackles the key issues facing managers in the 1990s: how to manage in rapidly changing environments. This seminal and prophetic book laid the foundation for a generation of writers on change management. This book concerns the immediate future of business, society and the economy. The one certainty about the times ahead, says Drucker, is that they will be turbulent times. In turbulent times the first task of management is to make sure of the organizations capacity for survival, to make sure of its structural strength and soundness, its capacity to survive a blow, to adapt to sudden change and to avail itself of new opportunities.The author is concerned with action rather than understanding, with decisions rather than analysis. It aims at being a practical book for the decision maker, whether in the private or the public sector.

Product Description: Trotsky's "commissar for foreign affairs" was a leader in the fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti, an organizer of the 1934 Minneapolis general strike, and a key figure in the 1960s civil rights, labor, and peace movements.

Product Description: This workbook embodies the stimulating process Peter Drucker uses in face-to-face consultations with nonprofit organizations. Following Drucker's method, participants ask and answer five key questions that focus on essential aspects of their organization, from the central values contained in its mission statement to the strategic vision of its long-term plan...read more

Product Description: Even in the flattest landscape there are passes where the road first climbs to a peak and then descends into a new valley. Most of these passes are simply topography with little or no difference in climate, language, or culture between the valleys on either side...read more

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