The Definitive Drucker: Challenges For Tomorrow's Executives -- Final Advice From the Father of Modern Management

by Elizabeth Haas Edersheim

Overview

Final advice from the great Peter Drucker for driving growth and profitability in the 21st Century—with a new foreword from the author

"We need a new theory of management. The assumptions built into business today are not accurate." - Peter Drucker

Based on multiple interviews and working sessions with Peter Drucker during the last year of his life, The Definitive Drucker reveals the management luminary’s most important concepts and applies them real-life business risks and opportunities.

The book sheds light on the most pressing management issues, such as the role of the CEO, why so many leaders fail, and the fragility and interdependencies of our economic and social systems, and it imparts Drucker's views on current business practices, technological, economic, and social changes, and trends—many of which Drucker predicted decades ago. A celebration of this extraordinary man’s life and work, The Definitive Drucker offers a unique opportunity to use Drucker's final business lessons to strategize, create, and succeed in any market.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071631112
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	01/04/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Elizabeth Haas Edersheim, Ph.D., teaches at NYU, advices, writes about and studies management. She works with organizations as their growth and or customer requirements exceed their organizational capabilities. Clients include leading global enterprises as well as fast-moving young firms – both for-profit and in the social sector.

Edersheim serves on the boards of the Hesselbein Global Academy for Student Leadership and Civic Engagement and the Delaware & Hudson Canal Museum, and is a Strategic advisor to Student Success Network. She serves as a member of the Judging Panel for the Drucker Forum. Previously, Edersheim worked at McKinsey & Co; she was one of the company’s first female partners.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1: The New Challenges For Management In The 21st Century

Chapter 2: Customers

Chapter 3: Innovation and Abandonment

Chapter 4: Collaboration and Orchestration

Chapter 5: People and Knowledge

Chapter 6: Disciplined Decision-Making

Chapter 7: The Role of the CEO