Peter F. Drucker on Economic Threats

293 Pages·2020·2.945 MB·English

by  Peter F. Drucker

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CONTENTS
Publisher’s Note
Introduction: A Society of Organizations
Part I Executive Agenda
ONE Inflation-Proofing the Company
TWO A Scorecard for Management
THREE Helping Small Businesses Cope
FOUR Is Executive Pay Excessive?
FIVE On Mandatory Executive Retirement
SIX The Real Duties of a Director
SEVEN The Information Explosion
EIGHT Learning from Foreign Management
Part II Business Performance
NINE The Delusion of Profits
TEN Aftermath of a Go-Go Decade
ELEVEN Managing Capital Productivity
TWELVE Six Durable Economic Myths
THIRTEEN Measuring Business Performance
FOURTEEN Why Consumers Aren’t Behaving
FIFTEEN Good Growth and Bad Growth
SIXTEEN The “Re-Industrialization” of America
SEVENTEEN The Danger of Excessive Labor Income
Part III The Non-Profit Sector
EIGHTEEN Managing the Non-Profit Institution
NINETEEN Managing the Knowledge Worker
TWENTY Meaningful Government Reorganization
TWENTY-ONE The Decline in Unionization
TWENTY-TWO The Future of Health Care
TWENTY-THREE The Professor as Featherbedder
TWENTY-FOUR The Schools in 1990
Part IV People at Work
TWENTY-FIVE Unmaking the Nineteenth Century
TWENTY-SIX Retirement Policy
TWENTY-SEVEN Report on the Class of ’68
TWENTY-EIGHT Meaningful Unemployment Figures
TWENTY-NINE Baby-Boom Problems
THIRTY Planning for Redundant Workers
THIRTY-ONE The Job as Property Right
Part V The Changing Globe
THIRTY-TWO The Rise of Production Sharing
THIRTY-THREE Japan’s Economic Policy Turn
THIRTY-FOUR The Battle Over Co-Determination
THIRTY-FIVE A Troubled Japanese Juggernaut
THIRTY-SIX India and Appropriate Technology
THIRTY-SEVEN Toward a New Form of Money?
THIRTY-EIGHT How Westernized Are the Japanese?
THIRTY-NINE Needed: A Full-Investment Budget
FORTY A Return to Hard Choices
A Final Note: The Matter of “Business Ethics”
Acknowledgments
Index