Bøger af Peter F. Drucker

Peter Drucker is widely regarded as the father of modern management, offering penetrating insights into business that still resonate today. But Drucker also offers deep wisdom on how to manage our personal lives and how to become more effective leaders. In these two classic articles from Harvard Business Review, Drucker reveals the keys to becoming your own chief executive officer as well as a better leader of others. "e;Managing Oneself"e; identifies the probing questions you need to ask to gain the insights essential for taking charge of your career, while "e;What Makes an Effective Executive"e; outlines the key behaviors you must adopt in order to lead. Together, they chart a powerful course to help you carve out your place in the world.

The measure of the executive, Peter Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "e;get the right things done."e; This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that mold them into results. Drucker identifies five practices essential to business effectiveness that can, and must, be learned: Management of time Choosing what to contribute to the practical organization Knowing where and how to mobilize strength for best effect Setting up the right priorities And Knitting all of them together with effective decision makingRanging widely through the annals of business and government, Peter Drucker demonstrates the distinctive skill of the executive and offers fresh insights into old and seemingly obvious business situations.

What makes an effective executive?For decades, Peter F. Drucker has been widely regarded as ?the dean of this country's business and management philosophers? (Wall Street Journal). In this concise and brilliant work, he looks to the most influential position in management?the executive. The measure of the executive, Drucker reminds us, is the ability to ?get the right things done.? This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked and avoiding what is unproductive. In an executive position, intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted without the acquired habits of mind that mold them into results.Drucker identifies five practices essential to business effectiveness that can?and must?be mastered:Managing timeChoosing what to contribute to the organizationKnowing where and how to mobilize strength for best effectSetting the right prioritiesKnitting all of them together with effective decision-makingRanging across the annals of business and government, Drucker demonstrates the distinctive skill of the executive and offers fresh insights into old and seemingly obvious business situations.

With his trademark clarity, vision, and humanity, Drucker sets out his ideas on a broad swath of key topics, from time management, to innovation, to outsourcing, providing useful insights for each day of the year.These 366 daily readings have been harvested from Drucker's lifetime of work.

Managing in a Globalized EconomyIn this collection of essays, renowned management thinker and teacher Peter F. Drucker guides leaders on how to find opportunities and make the right decisions in a business context that is increasingly global.This collection delivers a set of urgently needed lessons on how business leaders today can manage through complexity and volatility—and make the wisest possible choices while balancing the perils and promise of globalization. Using in-depth stories and examples from a diverse range of sectors, industries, and geographies, Drucker offers managers insight into: The global economic trends impacting world tradeThe productivity of the global workforceManaging major organizational decisions in a turbulent environmentBoth timely and enduring, Peter F. Drucker on Globalization is a forward-looking guidebook packed with practical wisdom.

"What is management? What is the relationship between management and the society and culture it seeks to direct? How is a business organised, and how can managers use people's strengths more effectively? These and many more questions are discussed in Peter Drucker's classic survey of management thought and practice. Spanning all the main dimensions of management, Drucker used his direct experience as an adviser to businesses, government departments, public institutions, and as a widely sought lecturer to examine evergreen topics in business thinking. Management Essentials is the ideal volume for those who want to experience the essence of Drucker's early thinking in a series of short and cogent essays"--

Revered management thinker Peter F. Drucker is our trusted guide in this thoughtful, day-by-day companion that offers his penetrating and practical wisdom. Amid the multiple pressures of our daily work lives, The Daily Drucker provides the inspiration and advice to meet the many challenges we face. With his trademark clarity, vision, and humanity, Drucker sets out his ideas on a broad swath of key topics, from time management, to innovation, to outsourcing, providing useful insights for each day of the year.These 366 daily readings have been harvested from Drucker's lifetime of work. At the bottom of each page, the reader will find an action point that spells out exactly how to put Drucker's ideas into practice. It is as if the wisest and most action-oriented management consultant in the world is in the room, offering his timeless gems of advice. The Daily Drucker is for anyone who seeks to understand and put to use Drucker's powerful words and ideas.

Father of modern management, social commentator, and preeminent business philosopher, Peter F. Drucker analyzed economics and society for more than sixty years. Now for readers everywhere who are concerned with the ways that management practices and principles affect the performance of organizations, individuals, and society, there is The Essential Drucker--an invaluable compilation of essential materials from the works of a management legend. Containing twenty-six core selections, The Essential Drucker covers the basic principles and concerns of management and its problems, challenges, and opportunities, giving managers, executives, and professionals the tools to perform the tasks that the economy and society of tomorrow will demand of them.

The Best of Peter F. Drucker on Non-Profits and the Public SectorPeter F. Drucker's classic and timeless insights on improving effectiveness in the public sector--including government agencies, hospitals, universities, and other nonprofits--are as relevant now as when they were written.In these prescient essays, Drucker explores the merits of proper governance for nonprofits and the public sector by offering advice and guidance on effective business management strategies to help leaders of these organizations better understand, and manage, the complex challenges they face in our volatile world. Public sector leaders will learn how to apply many of Drucker's trusted management practices to nonprofits. In this practical guide, Drucker offers insights on a range of perennial issues:the global economyboard governanceenvironmental challengessuccession planningand other essential management topicsPacked with evergreen advice from the world's most trusted management thinker, Peter F. Drucker on Nonprofits and the Public Sector is regarded as essential reading for all leaders in this sector of the economy.

Following in the successful vein of Managing for the Future (1992) and Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995), the incomparable Peter Drucker is back with fresh thoughts, insights, and knowledge about the ever-changing business society around us and the ever-expanding management roles required of us all-chiefs, executives, managers, and knowledge workers alike.Two main themes are explored in many of the chapters in Managing in the Next Society: the rapidly expanding information shock wave that had its Internet Big Bang as recently as 1995; and the changing shape of our society to come-six major trends that are rapidly transforming our world into what Peter Drucker calls The Next Society.

Significant as has been the role of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in contemporary culture and society, its importance continues to grow at an accelerating rate as more specific, focused, and involving forms of therapy are devised

The Future of Industrial Man is the only book by Peter Drucker in which he systematically develops a basic social theory

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Significant as has been the role of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in contemporary culture and society, its importance continues to grow at an accelerating rate as more specific, focused, and involving forms of therapy are devised

Periods of great social change reveal a tension between the need for continuity and the need for innovation

The Future of Industrial Man is the only book by Peter Drucker in which he systematically develops a basic social theory. He presents the requirements for any society to be functioning and legitimate, and then applies these general concepts to the special case of the industrial society. In his new introduction, Drucker explains that his reference to mercantilism in The Future of Industrial Man can today be called neoconservatism, which, he asserts, denies rather than affirms the reality of industrial and postindustrial society.Drucker outlines the major shifts of previous centuries. He describes the move from an agrarian to an industrial economy, illustrates the structure and dynamics of this new industrial order, and warns of the abuses inherent in the system if attempts are made to maintain it under anachronistic social conventions. He emphasizes the fact that the new industrial order must operate under a "legitimate" system of po-litical power supported by social authority. He discusses the particular roles of the owners, the workers, the managers-the corporation itself-as he pinpoints the problem that he considers the most central and the most critical: how to maintain the continuing freedom of the individual in an increasingly intricate, bureaucratized world.Following the initial publication of this work, Jacques Barzun wrote in The New Republic, "Here is a book which is so perfectly planned and so transparently written as to read with almost indecent ease. . . . Each page is the fruit of much learning and long reflection. It should accordingly by studied, pondered over, ana-lyzed word by word." According to W. H. Chamberlain of The Atlantic Monthly, "[Drucker] possesses a fund of historical and economic knowledge." The Future of Industrial Man is a landmark study by a noted analyst of the modern corporation. It is of continuing importance to economists, industrial studies scholars, and profes-sionals in business.

A collection of writings from neo-classical economist Frank Knight illustrating his lifelong campaign against the irrationalities of nationalism, religious fanaticism and group conflict whilst conceding these are fundamental orientations of human action. A defence of human freedom and liberal order whilst condemning liberalism as rife with abuse.

Peter F. Drucker argues that what underlies the current malaise of so many large and successful organizations worldwide is that their theory of the business no longer works. The story is a familiar one: a company that was a superstar only yesterday finds itself stagnating and frustrated, in trouble and, often, in a seemingly unmanageable crisis. The root cause of nearly every one of these crises is not that things are being done poorly. It is not even that the wrong things are being done. Indeed, in most cases, the right things are being done-but fruitlessly. What accounts for this apparent paradox? The assumptions on which the organization has been built and is being run no longer fit reality. These are the assumptions that shape any organization's behavior, dictate its decisions about what to do and what not to do, and define what an organization considers meaningful results. These assumptions are what Drucker calls a company's theory of the business.The Harvard Business Review Classics series offers you the opportunity to make seminal Harvard Business Review articles a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world-and will have a direct impact on you today and for years to come.

The best of Peter F. Drucker's articles on management, all in one place.That "e;management"e; exists as a concept, a practice, and a profession is largely due to the thinking of Peter F. Drucker. For nearly half a century, he inspired and educated managers-and powerfully shaped the nature of business-with his iconic articles in Harvard Business Review.Through the lens of Drucker's broad vision, this volume presents an opportunity to trace the great shifts in organizations in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries-from manufacturing to knowledge work, from career-length employee tenures to short-term contract relationships, from command-and-control structures to flatter organizations that call for new leadership techniques.These articles also offer a firm and practical grasp of the role of the manager and the executive today-their responsibilities, their relationships, their decisions, and detailed processes that can make their work more effective.A celebrated thinker at his best, in this volume Drucker paints a clear and comprehensive picture of management thinking and practice-both as it is and as it will be.This collection of articles includes: "e;What Makes an Effective Executive,"e; "e;The Theory of the Business,"e; "e;Managing for Business Effectiveness,"e; "e;The Effective Decision,"e; "e;How to Make People Decisions,"e; "e;They're Not Employees, They're People,"e; "e;The New Productivity Challenge,"e; "e;What Business Can Learn from Nonprofits,"e; "e;The New Society of Organizations,"e; and "e;Managing Oneself."e;