The Essential Drucker

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Summary

In one volume comes the best of 60 years work on management by the man Warren Bennis calls "the most important management thinker of our time".

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Introduction: The Origin and Purpose of The Essential Drucker
Management
Management as Social Function and Liberal Art	p. 3
The Dimensions of Management	p. 14
The Purpose and Objectives of a Business	p. 18
What the Nonprofits Are Teaching Business	p. 39
Social Impacts and Social Problems	p. 51
Management's New Paradigms	p. 69
The Information Executives Need Today	p. 95
Management by Objectives and Self-Control	p. 112
Picking People - The Basic Rules	p. 127
The Entrepreneurial Business	p. 136
The New Venture	p. 144
Entrepreneurial Strategies	p. 161
The Individual
Effectiveness Must Be Learned	p. 191
Focus on Contribution	p. 207
Know Your Strengths and Values	p. 217
Know Your Time	p. 225
Effective Decisions	p. 241
Functioning Communications	p. 261
Leadership as Work	p. 268
Principles of Innovation	p. 272
The Second Half of Your Life	p. 280
The Educated Person	p. 287
Society
A Century of Social Transformation - Emergence of Knowledge Society	p. 299
The Coming of Entrepreneurial Society	p. 321
Citizenship through the Social Sector	p. 329
From Analysis to Perception - The New Worldview	p. 337
Afterword: The Challenge Ahead	p. 347
Index	p. 351
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