本书收录了被誉为“现代管理宗师”德鲁克教授近20年撰写的具有经典意义和代表性的、写于不同时代的58篇论文。由德鲁克教授亲自遴选并欣然为其在中国的出版作序。所选论文涉及现代企业组织及其管理，有效决策及效益评估，未来企业组织的治理结构，绩效测评，创新管理及知识工作者的管理，企业家精神等管理领域的诸多方面。通过阅读本书，读者充分领略德鲁克先生对管理问题独特的研究视角，犀利的见解，渊博的知识，批判式的眼光及前瞻性的预测，并被这位“当今少数几位改变世界的思想家之一”所折服。
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REFACE TO EDITION FOR CHINA
PART I THE FRONTIERS OF MANAGEMENT
Introduction The Future Is Being Shaped Today
Chapter 1 The Changed World Economy
Chapter 2 America's Entrepreneurial. Job Machine
Chapter 3 Why OPEC Had to Fail
Chapter 4 The Changing Multinational
Chapter 5 Modem Prophets: Schumpeter or Keynes?
Chapter 6 Picking People: The Basic Rules
Chapter 7 Measuring White-Collar Productivity
Chapter 8 Management: The Problems of Success
Chapter 9 The Information-Based Organization
Chapter 10 Management as a Liberal Art
Chapter 11 The Five Rules of Successful Acquisitions
Chapter 12 The Innovative Organization
Chapter 13 Social Needs and Business Opportunities
Afterword:Social Innovation -- Management's New Dimension
PART II THE CHANGING WORLD OF THE EXECUTIVE
Introduction: A Society of Organizations
Chapter 1 A Scorecard for Management
Chapter 2 Helping Small Businesses Cope
Chapter 3 The Delusion of Profits
Chapter 4 Managing Capital Productivity
Chapter 5 Six Durable Economic Myths
Chapter 6 Measuring Business Performance
Chapter 7 Managing the Knowledge Worker
Chapter 8 The Rise of Production Sharing
Afterword:The Matter of “Business Ethics”
PART III MANAGING FOR THE FUTURE: THE 1990s AND BEYOND
Interview: Notes on the Post-Business Society
Chapter 1 The New Productivity Challenge
Chapter 2 Leadership: More Doing Than Dash
Chapter 3 Tomorrow's Managers: The Major Trends
Chapter 4 How to Manage the Boss
Chapter 5 Manage by Walking Around - Outside!
Chapter 6 What the Nonprofits Are Teaching Business
Chapter 7 Nonprofit Governance: Lessons for Success
Chapter 8 The'Governance of Corporations
Chapter 9 Four Marketing Lessons for the Future
Chapter 10 Company Performance: Five Telltale Tests
Chapter 11 R & D: The Best Is Business-Driven
Chapter 12 The 10 Rules of Effective Research
Chapter 13 The Emerging Theory of Manufacturing
Afterword: The 1990s and Beyond
PART IV MANAGing IN A TIME OF GREAT CHANGE
Interview: The Post-Capitalist Executive
Chapter 1 The Theory of the Business
Chapter 2 Planning for Uncertainty
Chapter 3 The Five Deadly Business Sins
Chapter 4 Managing the Family Business
Chapter 5 Six Rules for Presidents
Chapter 6 Managing in the Network Society
Chapter 7 The New Society of Organizations
Chapter 8 We Need to Measure, Not Count
Chapter 9 There's Three Kinds of Teams
Chapter 10 The Information Executives Need Today
Chapter 11 Trade Lessons from the World Economy
Chapter 12 The US Economy's Power Shift
Chapter 13 Where the New Markets Are
Chapter 14 A Century of Social Transformations
Chapter 15 Reinventing Government
Chapter 16 Can the Democracies Win the Peace?
Interview: Managing in a Post-Capitalist Society: An Interview with Industry Week
Conducted by Tom Brown
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