Peter F. Drucker on Globalization

Table of contents

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