Management Challenges for the
21st Century
Peter F Drucker Clarke
Professor of Social Science, Peter F Drucker Graduate Management School.Claremont Graduate
University, California
Management Challenges for the
21st Century looks afresh at the future of management thinking and practice. This new book
from 'the most enduring management thinker of our time/as Business Week described Peter
Orucker, defines new ways of delivering success. The biggest challenge is identified as
knowledge worker productivity -what do we know about it, what is the new management task,
how we can continue to learn, knowledge work as a system and how this relates to the
economic system.
This astonishing new book
from the world's leading management guru with a long-term business perspective second to
none will provoke some stimulating discussion: there is no such thing as the right
organization: it is a tool -for making people productive; managers can no longer be
assumed to have done the same job as their subordinates; organizations will no longer have
a balance of full-time employees;the average life-span of a business is never more than 30
years and much more.
There are two fundamental
issues in Management Challenges in the 21st Century which are occurring simultaneously:
changes in the world economy and changes in the practice of management. These changes,
especially in developed countries are crucial in exploring the challenges of the future
and Drucker asks: What are the new realities? What new policies are required of companies
and executives in order to meet these challenges?
CONTENTS:
Management's new paradigms
Strategy: the new realities
Focus on change
Managing oneself
From manufacturing to
production
Information challenges
Knowledge-worker
productivity: the biggest challenge.
255 pages