Managing in the Next Society

by Drucker, Peter F.

• ISBN13: 9780312320119
• ISBN10: 0312320116
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Griffin

Summary

For more than sixty years, Peter Drucker has been the pre-eminent thinker, lecturer, and writer about change and how CEOs, executives, and managers of all kinds, from business to non-profits to government, can better manage the many business and social changes around us. But here, at the start of a new century, change is now a con-stant. In this carefully integrated collection of recent writings, Drucker takes us inside the emergence of the information society-plus six unseen trends that are changing our society in the years immediately ahead. Insightful and prescient, Managing in the Next Society is Drucker at his best.

Author Biography

From his first book, The End of Economic Man (1939), to this his most recent, Peter F. Drucker has been hailed in the United States and abroad as the seminal thinker, writer, and lecturer of our time on the twentieth-century business organization in all its for-profit and non-profit guises and forms. The recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, Mr. Drucker since 1971 has been Clarke Professor of Social Sciences at Claremont Graduate School in California as well as a frequent editorial page contributer to The Wall Street Journal. Earlier he taught at Bennington, Sarah Lawrence, and New York University. Mr. Drucker and his wife, Doris, live in Claremont, California.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
PART I: THE INFORMATION SOCIETY	1	(90)
1. Beyond the Information Revolution	3	(22)
2. The Exploding World of the Internet	25	(18)
3. From Computer Literacy to Information Literacy	43	(14)
4. E-Commerce: The Central Challenge	57	(6)
5. The New Economy Isn't Here Yet	63	(16)
6. The CEO in the New Millennium	79	(12)
PART II: BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES	91	(82)
7. Entrepreneurs and Innovation	93	(18)
8. They're Not Employees, They're People	111	(20)
9. Financial Services: Innovate or Die	131	(18)
10. Moving Beyond Capitalism?	149	(24)
PART III: THE CHANGING WORLD ECONOMY	173	(60)
11. The Rise of the Great Institutions	175	(8)
12. The Global Economy and the Nation-State	183	(20)
13. It's the Society, Stupid	203	(22)
14. On Civilizing the City	225	(8)
PART IV: THE NEXT SOCIETY	233	(68)
15. The Next Society	235	(66)
The New Demographics	242	(10)
The New Workforce	252	(11)
The Manufacturing Paradox	263	(8)
Will the Corporation Survive?	271	(16)
The Future of Top Management	287	(5)
The Way Ahead	292	(9)
Acknowledgments	301	(4)
Index	305