The Frontiers of Management: Where Tomorrow's Decisions Are Being Shaped Today

Table of contents

1. The Drucker Library
2. Title Page
3. Copyright
4. Preface: The Future Is Being Shaped Today
5. Interview: A Talk with a Wide-Ranging Mind
6. 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
   11. ELEVEN The Perils of Adversarial Trade
   12. TWELVE Modern Prophets
7. Part II People
   1. THIRTEEN Picking People
   2. FOURTEEN Measuring White-Collar Productivity
   3. FIFTEEN Twilight of the First-Line Supervisor?
   4. SIXTEEN Overpaid Executives
   5. SEVENTEEN Overage Executives
   6. EIGHTEEN Paying the Professional Schools
   7. NINETEEN Jobs and People
   8. TWENTY Quality Education
8. Part III Management
   1. TWENTY-ONE Management
   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
   7. TWENTY-SEVEN Management as a Liberal Art
9. 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
   7. THIRTY-FOUR The Lessons of the Bell Breakup
   8. THIRTY-FIVE Social Needs and Business Opportunities
10. Afterword: Social Innovation—Management's New Dimension
11. Acknowledgments