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RECORD NUMBER: 1569 OF 1952Main Title | The essential Drucker : the best of sixty years of Peter Drucker's essential writings on management / | |||||||||||
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Author | Drucker, Peter F. | |||||||||||
Publisher | Harper, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 2008 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 695596137 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 9780061345012 (pbk.); 0061345016 (pbk.) | |||||||||||
Subjects | Industrial management ; Success in business ; Management--History ; Organization ; Entrepreneurship | |||||||||||
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Edition | 1st Collins Business Essentials pbk. ed. | |||||||||||
Collation | x, 357 pages ; 21 cm | |||||||||||
Notes | Originally published: New York : HarperBusiness, Ã2001. Includes index. |
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Contents Notes | Management as social function and liberal art -- The dimensions of management -- The purpose and objectives of a business -- What the nonprofits are teaching business -- Social impacts and social problems -- Management's new paradigms -- The information executives need today -- Management by objectives and self-control -- Picking people : the basic rules -- The entrepreneurial business -- The new venture -- Entrepreneurial strategies -- Effectiveness must be learned -- Focus on contribution -- Know your strengths and values -- Know your time -- Effective decisions -- Functioning communications -- Leadership as work -- Principles of innovation -- The second half of your life -- The educated person -- A century of social transformation : emergence of knowledge society -- The coming of entrepreneurial society -- Citizenship through the social sector -- From analysis to perception : the new worldview. |