July 2020
Beginner to intermediate
224 pages
5h 4m
English
Content preview from Peter F. Drucker on Technology
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INDEX
age
of managers, and knowledge resources, 159
of workers, and job mobility, 94–95
Age of Discontinuity, The (Drucker), 27n, 30n, 34n, 38n
agricultural colleges, 174
agriculture
impact of technology on, 78, 79–80, 173–174, 177
increased productivity in, 79, 160
revolution in, 167, 173–174, 177
alternative courses of action, and entrepreneurial decisions, 128–129
appraisals, performance, 19–20
architects, and building of Gothic
Aristophanes, 46
Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne), 81
art, level of communication in, 13–14
aspirations
communication and, 11, 16, 18–19, 20
management and, 28, 29, 32, 36, 37
aspirin synthesis, 57
assembly line, 44
assumptions in entrepreneurial decisions, 128
automation, ...
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