The Changing World of the Executive - Hardcover

Drucker, Peter Ferdinand

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812909321 ISBN 13: 9780812909326

Publisher: Horizon Book Promotions, 1985

Synopsis

Explores the challenging new roles, managerial tasks, practices, and requirements for business executives and managers in the 1980s and discusses ways to better manage organizational changes, stress areas, and pressure

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Review

`a brilliant collection of forty of his articles, most of which were published originally in the Wall Street Journal....absorbing even to the non-specialist' Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Born in Vienna in 1909, Peter F. Drucker was educated in Austria and England. From 1929 he was a newspaper correspondent abroad and an economist for an international bank in London. Since 1937 he has been in the United States, first as an economist for a group of British banks and insurance companies, and later as a management consultant to several of the country's largest companies, as well as leading companies abroad. Drucker has since had a distinguished career as a teacher, first as Professor of Politics and Philosophy at Bennington College, then for more than twenty years as Professor of Management at the Graduate Business School of New York University. Since 1971 he has been Clarke Professor of Social Science at Claremont Graduate School in California. In addition to his management books, Peter Drucker is also renowned for his prophetic books analysing politics, economics and society. These books span fifty years of modern history beginning with The End of Economic Man (1939) and including The Practice of Management; Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Managing in the Next Society; Management Challenges in the 21st Century; The Effective Executive and The Essential Drucker.

Edition details

• Publisher: Horizon Book Promotions
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812909321
• ISBN 13: 9780812909326
• Binding: Hardcover