The Drucker Lectures: Essential Lessons on Management, Society and Economy

by Drucker, Peter; Wartzman, Rick

• ISBN13: 9780071700450
• ISBN10: 0071700455
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-05
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

The Lost "Oral History" of the Father of Modern ManagementThroughout his professional life, Peter F. Drucker inspired millions of business leaders not only through his famous writings but also through his lectures and keynotes. These speeches contained some of his most valuable insights, but had never been published in book formuntil now.The Drucker Lecturesfeatures 50 full-length and excerpted talks from one of management's most important figures. Drawn from the Drucker Archive at The Drucker School of Business at Claremont University, the lectures showcase Drucker's wisdom, wit, profundity, and prescience on such topics as: Politics and economics of the environment Knowledge workers and the Knowledge Society Computer and information literacy Managing nonprofit organizations GlobalizationDuring his life, Drucker well understood that over the last 150 years the world had become a society of large institutionsand that they would only become larger and more powerful. He contended that unless these institutions were effectively managed and ethically led, the good health of society as a whole would be in peril. His prediction is unfolding before our eyes.The Drucker Lecturesis a timely, instructive book proving that responsible behavior and good business can, in fact, exist hand in hand.

Author Biography

Rick Wartzman is the executive director of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University and a columnist for Bloomberg Businessweek online. He is the author of Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and the coauthor of the bestseller The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
1940s	p. 1
How Is Human Existence Possible? (1943)	p. 3
The Myth of the State (1947)	p. 9
1950s	p. 17
The Problems of Maintaining Continuous and Full Employment (1957)	p. 19
1960s	p. 27
The First Technological Revolution and Its Lessons (1965)	p. 29
Management in the Big Organizations (1967)	p. 37
1970s	p. 47
Politics and Economics of the Environment (1971)	p. 49
What We Already Know about American Education Tomorrow (1971)	p. 57
Claremont Address (1974)	p. 65
Structural Changes in the World Economy and Society as They Affect American Business (1977)	p. 73
1980s	p. 81
Managing the Increasing Complexity of Large Organizations (1981)	p. 83
The Information-Based Organization (1987)	p. 91
Knowledge Lecture I (1989)	p. 97
Knowledge Lecture II (1989)	p. 105
Knowledge Lecture III (1989)	p. 113
Knowledge Lecture IV (1989)	p. 119
Knowledge Lecture V (1989)	p. 127
1990s	p. 133
The New Priorities (1991)	p. 135
Do You Know Where You Belong? (1992)	p. 143
The Era of the Social Sector (1994)	p. 149
The Knowledge Worker and the Knowledge Society (1994)	p. 157
Reinventing Government: The Next Phase (1994)	p. 165
Manage Yourself and Then Your Company (1996)	p. 173
On Health Care (1996)	p. 179
The Changing World Economy (1997)	p. 185
Deregulation and the Japanese Economy (1998)	p. 193
Managing Oneself (1999)	p. 199
From Teaching to Learning (1999)	p. 205
2000s	p. 213
On Globalization (2001)	p. 215
Managing the Nonprofit Organization (2001)	p. 221
The Future of the Corporation I (2003)	p. 229
The Future of the Corporation II (2003)	p. 235
The Future of the Corporation III (2003)	p. 241
The Future of the Corporation IV (2003)	p. 245
About	p. 253
Books	p. 255
Index	p. 257
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