Management (Revised Edition) » (Revised Edition)

Peter F. Drucker is considered the most influential management thinker ever. The author of more than twenty-five books, his ideas have had an enormous impact on shaping the modern corporation. Drucker passed away in 2005.

The essential book on management from the man who invented the discipline Now completely revised and updated for the first time

Peter Drucker's Legacy   Jim Collins     xi
Introduction to the Revised Edition of Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices     xv
Preface     xxxi
Introduction: Management and Managers Defined     1
Management as a Social Function and Liberal Art     18
The Dimensions of Management     26
Management's New Realities     35
Knowledge Is All     37
New Demographics     45
The Future of the Corporation and the Way Ahead     51
Management's New Paradigm     65
Business Performance     83
The Theory of the Business     85
The Purpose and Objectives of a Business     97
Making the Future Today     113
Strategic Planning: The Entrepreneurial Skill     122
Performance in Service Institutions     129
Managing Service Institutions in the Society of Organizations     131
What Successful and Performing Nonprofits Are Teaching Business     142
The Accountable School     152
Rethinking "Reinventing Government"     160
Entrepreneurship in the Public-Service Institution     171
Productive Work and Achieving Worker     181
Making Work Productive andthe Worker Achieving     183
Managing the Work and Worker in Manual Work     191
Managing the Work and Worker in Knowledge Work     197
Social Impacts and Social Responsibilities     211
Social Impacts and Social Responsibilities     213
The New Pluralism: How to Balance the Special Purpose of the Institution with the Common Good     225
The Manager's Work and Jobs     233
Why Managers?     235
Design and Content of Managerial Jobs     239
Developing Management and Managers     250
Management by Objectives and Self-Control     258
From Middle Management to Information-Based Organizations     269
The Spirit of Performance     280
Managerial Skills     293
The Elements of Effective Decision Making     295
How to Make People Decisions     308
Managerial Communications     317
Controls, Control, and Management     321
The Manager and the Budget     330
Information Tools and Concepts     341
Innovation and Entrepreneurship     357
The Entrepreneurial Business     359
The New Venture     365
Entrepreneurial Strategies     378
Systematic Innovation Using Windows of Opportunity     398
Managerial Organization     405
Strategies and Structures     407
Work- and Task-Focused Design     427
Three Kinds of Teams     438
Result- and Relation-Focused Design     442
Alliances     456
The CEO in the New Millennium     464
The Impact of Pension Funds on Corporate Governance     470
New Demands on the Individual     479
Managing Oneself     481
Managing the Boss     498
Revitalizing Oneself-Seven Personal Experiences     505
The Educated Person     514
Conclusion: The Manager of Tomorrow     521
Author's Note     527
Bibliography     529
Drucker Annotated Bibliography     537
Index     551