Book description
Final advice from the great Peter Drucker for driving growth and profitability in the 21st Century—with a new foreword from the author
"We need a new theory of management. The assumptions built into business today are not accurate." - Peter Drucker
Based on multiple interviews and working sessions with Peter Drucker during the last year of his life, The Definitive Drucker reveals the management luminary’s most important concepts and applies them real-life business risks and opportunities.
The book sheds light on the most pressing management issues, such as the role of the CEO, why so many leaders fail, and the fragility and interdependencies of our economic and social systems, and it imparts Drucker's views on current business practices, technological, economic, and social changes, and trends—many of which Drucker predicted decades ago. A celebration of this extraordinary man’s life and work, The Definitive Drucker offers a unique opportunity to use Drucker's final business lessons to strategize, create, and succeed in any market.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- The Definitive Drucker: Challenges For Tomorrow's Executives -- Final Advice From the Father of Modern Management
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- One Doing Business in the Lego World
- Two The Customer: Joined at the Hip
- Three Innovation and Abandonment
- Four Collaboration and Orchestration
- Five People and Knowledge
- Six Decision Making: The Chassis that Holds the Whole Together
- Seven The Twenty-First-Century CEO
- Endnotes
- Books by Peter F. Drucker
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Author
- Footnotes
Product information
- Title: The Definitive Drucker
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2007
- Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
- ISBN: 9780071631112
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