Managing for Results: Economic Tasks and Risk-Taking Decisions - Softcover

Drucker, Peter F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750619074 ISBN 13: 9780750619073

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1964

Synopsis

Managing for Results: Economic Tasks and Risk-taking Decisions is a guidebook for those in management position. The book is comprised of 14 chapters that are organized into three parts. The first part talks about understanding the business; this part covers business realities, revenues, resources, and prospects. Part II discusses the opportunities and needs in economic dimensions of a business. Part III covers the key decision, business strategies, and building up economic performance. The book will be useful to managers, entrepreneurs, and individuals who are exposed to a decision-making situation that has an economic implication.

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`The pre-eminent management thinker of our time.' Harvard Business Review
`...it would be difficult to overestimate his contribution to management thinking.'
Financial Times

Synopsis

This text aims to break through conventional outlooks and open up new perspectives - for ultimate profits - in the world of business. What must be done to make the organization perform, prosper and grow what the executive, the maker of decisions, must do to move the enterprise forward - is the subject of this book. It should be of help to students of management as well as executives in industry and commerce. It deals skillfully and perceptively with economic tasks that every business has to tackle to achieve sound performance and economic results.

Edition details

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Publication date: 1964
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750619074
• ISBN 13: 9780750619073
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236