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Peter F. Drucker Boxed Set (8 Books) (The Drucker Library)

Author Peter F. Drucker
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The perfect gift for aspiring leaders: The Peter F. Drucker Library.

Filled with practical guidance on perennial leadership issues, the Peter F. Drucker Boxed Set is essential reading for all managers and executives. More vitally relevant than ever, each book features the best of Peter F. Drucker's legendary wisdom. This specially priced 8-volume set includes every book in the Drucker Library: Peter F. Drucker on Economic Threats; Peter F. Drucker on Technology; Peter F. Drucker on Business and Society; Peter F. Drucker on Nonprofits and the Public Sector; Peter F. Drucker on the Network Economy; Peter F. Drucker on Management Essentials; Peter F. Drucker on Globalization; and Peter F. Drucker on Practical Leadership. Build your professional library with the Peter F. Drucker Boxed Set.

Table of Contents

  1. Contents
  2. Economic Threats
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. Publisher’s Note
    5. Introduction: A Society of Organizations
    6. Part I Executive Agenda
      1. ONE Inflation-Proofing the Company
      2. TWO A Scorecard for Management
      3. THREE Helping Small Businesses Cope
      4. FOUR Is Executive Pay Excessive?
      5. FIVE On Mandatory Executive Retirement
      6. SIX The Real Duties of a Director
      7. SEVEN The Information Explosion
      8. EIGHT Learning from Foreign Management
    7. Part II Business Performance
      1. NINE The Delusion of Profits
      2. TEN Aftermath of a Go-Go Decade
      3. ELEVEN Managing Capital Productivity
      4. TWELVE Six Durable Economic Myths
      5. THIRTEEN Measuring Business Performance
      6. FOURTEEN Why Consumers Aren’t Behaving
      7. FIFTEEN Good Growth and Bad Growth
      8. SIXTEEN The “Re-Industrialization” of America
      9. SEVENTEEN The Danger of Excessive Labor Income
    8. Part III The Non-Profit Sector
      1. EIGHTEEN Managing the Non-Profit Institution
      2. NINETEEN Managing the Knowledge Worker
      3. TWENTY Meaningful Government Reorganization
      4. TWENTY-ONE The Decline in Unionization
      5. TWENTY-TWO The Future of Health Care
      6. TWENTY-THREE The Professor as Featherbedder
      7. TWENTY-FOUR The Schools in 1990
    9. Part IV People at Work
      1. TWENTY-FIVE Unmaking the Nineteenth Century
      2. TWENTY-SIX Retirement Policy
      3. TWENTY-SEVEN Report on the Class of ’68
      4. TWENTY-EIGHT Meaningful Unemployment Figures
      5. TWENTY-NINE Baby-Boom Problems
      6. THIRTY Planning for Redundant Workers
      7. THIRTY-ONE The Job as Property Right
    10. Part V The Changing Globe
      1. THIRTY-TWO The Rise of Production Sharing
      2. THIRTY-THREE Japan’s Economic Policy Turn
      3. THIRTY-FOUR The Battle Over Co-Determination
      4. THIRTY-FIVE A Troubled Japanese Juggernaut
      5. THIRTY-SIX India and Appropriate Technology
      6. THIRTY-SEVEN Toward a New Form of Money?
      7. THIRTY-EIGHT How Westernized Are the Japanese?
      8. THIRTY-NINE Needed: A Full-Investment Budget
      9. FORTY A Return to Hard Choices
    11. A Final Note: The Matter of “Business Ethics”
    12. Acknowledgments
    13. Index
  3. Technology
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. Publisher’s Note
    5. Preface
    6. ONE: Information, Communications, and Understanding
    7. TWO: Management’s New Role
    8. THREE: Work and Tools
    9. FOUR: Technological Trends in the Twentieth Century
    10. FIVE: The Pretechnological Civilization of 1900
    11. SIX: The Once and Future Manager
    12. SEVEN: The First Technological Revolution and Its Lessons
    13. EIGHT: Long-Range Planning
    14. NINE: Business Objectives and Survival Needs
    15. TEN: The Manager and the Moron
    16. ELEVEN: The Technological Revolution
    17. TWELVE: Can Management Ever Be a Science?
    18. Index
  4. Business and Society
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. Publisher’s Note
    5. Preface
    6. ONE: The New Markets and the New Entrepreneurs
    7. TWO: The Unfashionable Kierkegaard
    8. THREE: Notes on the New Politics
    9. FOUR: This Romantic Generation
    10. FIVE: Calhoun’s Pluralism
    11. SIX: American Directions
    12. SEVEN: The Secret Art of Being an Effective President
    13. EIGHT: Henry Ford
    14. NINE: The American Genius Is Political
    15. TEN: Japan Tries for a Second Miracle
    16. ELEVEN: What We Can Learn from Japanese Management
    17. TWELVE: Keynes: Economics as a Magical System
    18. THIRTEEN: The Economic Basis of American Politics
    19. Index
  5. Nonprofits and the Public Sector
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. Publisher’s Note
    5. Preface
    6. ONE Toward the Next Economics
    7. TWO Saving the Crusade: The High Cost of Our Environmental Future
    8. THREE Business and Technology
    9. FOUR Multinationals and Developing Countries: Myths and Realities
    10. FIVE What Results Should You Expect? A Users’ Guide to MBO
    11. SIX The Coming Rediscovery of Scientific Management
    12. SEVEN The Bored Board
    13. EIGHT After Fixed-Age Retirement Is Gone
    14. NINE Science and Industry: Challenges of Antagonistic Interdependence
    15. TEN How to Guarantee Non-performance
    16. ELEVEN Behind Japan’s Success
    17. TWELVE A View of Japan Through Japanese Art
    18. Acknowledgments
    19. Index
  6. The Network Economy
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. Publisher’s Note
    5. Preface
    6. Acknowledgments
    7. Interview: The Post-Capitalist Executive
    8. Part I Management
      1. ONE The Theory of the Business
      2. TWO Planning for Uncertainty
      3. THREE The Five Deadly Business Sins
      4. FOUR Managing the Family Business
      5. FIVE Six Rules for Presidents
      6. SIX Managing in the Network Society
    9. Part II The Information-Based Organization
      1. SEVEN The New Society of Organizations
      2. EIGHT There Are Three Kinds of Teams
      3. NINE The Information Revolution in Retail
      4. TEN Be Data Literate; Know What to Know
      5. ELEVEN We Need to Measure, Not Count
      6. TWELVE The Information Executives Need Today
    10. Part III The Economy
      1. THIRTEEN Trade Lessons from the World Economy
      2. FOURTEEN The U.S. Economy’s Power Shift
      3. FIFTEEN Where the New Markets Are
      4. SIXTEEN The Pacific Rim and the World Economy
      5. SEVENTEEN China’s Growth Markets
      6. EIGHTEEN The End of Japan, Inc.?
      7. NINETEEN A Weak Dollar Strengthens Japan
      8. TWENTY The New Superpower: The Overseas Chinese
    11. Part IV The Society
      1. TWENTY-ONE A Century of Social Transformation
      2. TWENTY-TWO It Profits Us to Strengthen Nonprofits
      3. TWENTY-THREE Knowledge Work and Gender Roles
      4. TWENTY-FOUR Reinventing Government
      5. TWENTY-FIVE Can the Democracies Win the Peace?
    12. Interview: Managing in a Post-Capitalist Society
    13. Index
  7. Management Essentials
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. Publisher’s Note
    5. Acknowledgments
    6. Part I What Is Management?
      1. ONE Why Managers?
      2. TWO Management: Its Roots and Its Emergence
      3. THREE Management: A Look Backward and a Look Forward
      4. FOUR The Dimensions of Management
      5. FIVE The Challenges of Management
    7. Part II What Is a Manager?
      1. SIX Managers and Their Work
      2. SEVEN Management by Objectives and Self-Control
      3. EIGHT From Middle Management to Knowledge Organization
      4. NINE Staffing for Excellence
    8. Part III What Is a Business?
      1. TEN What Is a Business?
      2. ELEVEN Business Realities
      3. TWELVE The Power and Purpose of Objectives
      4. THIRTEEN The Delusion of Profits
      5. FOURTEEN Managing Capital Productivity
      6. FIFTEEN Managing the Public Service Institution
    9. Part IV Organizing and Managing for Performance
      1. SIXTEEN The Innovative Organization
      2. SEVENTEEN The Building Blocks of Organizations …
      3. EIGHTEEN … And How They Join Together
    10. Part V How Can Managers Use the Strengths of People?
      1. NINETEEN Is Personnel Management Bankrupt?
      2. TWENTY What We Know About Work, Working, and Worker
      3. TWENTY-ONE Worker and Working: Theories and Reality
      4. TWENTY-TWO How to Be an Employee
    11. Part VI Management in Society and Culture
      1. TWENTY-THREE Management and the Quality of Life
      2. TWENTY-FOUR Social Impacts and Social Problems
      3. TWENTY-FIVE The Limits of Social Responsibility
      4. TWENTY-SIX The Ethics of Responsibility
    12. Definitions of Key Terms
    13. Index
  8. Globalization
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. Publisher’s Note
    5. Preface: The Future Is Being Shaped Today
    6. Interview: A Talk with a Wide-Ranging Mind
    7. Part I Economics
      1. ONE The Changed World Economy
      2. TWO America’s Entrepreneurial Job Machine
      3. THREE Why OPEC Had to Fail
      4. FOUR The Changing Multinational
      5. FIVE Managing Currency Exposure
      6. SIX Export Markets and Domestic Policies
      7. SEVEN Europe’s High-Tech Ambitions
      8. EIGHT What We Can Learn from the Germans
      9. NINE On Entering the Japanese Market
      10. TEN Trade with Japan: The Way It Works
      11. ELEVEN The Perils of Adversarial Trade
      12. TWELVE Modern Prophets: Schumpeter or Keynes?
    8. Part II People
      1. THIRTEEN Picking People: The Basic Rules
      2. FOURTEEN Measuring White-Collar Productivity
      3. FIFTEEN Twilight of the First-Line Supervisor?
      4. SIXTEEN Overpaid Executives: The Greed Effect
      5. SEVENTEEN Overage Executives: Keeping Firms Young
      6. EIGHTEEN Paying the Professional Schools
      7. NINETEEN Jobs and People: The Growing Mismatch
      8. TWENTY Quality Education: The New Growth Area
    9. Part III Management
      1. TWENTY-ONE Management: The Problems of Success
      2. TWENTY-TWO Getting Control of Staff Work
      3. TWENTY-THREE Slimming Management’s Midriff
      4. TWENTY-FOUR The Information-Based Organization
      5. TWENTY-FIVE Are Labor Unions Becoming Irrelevant?
      6. TWENTY-SIX Union Flexibility: Why It’s Now a Must
      7. TWENTY-SEVEN Management as a Liberal Art
    10. Part IV The Organization
      1. TWENTY-EIGHT The Hostile Takeover and Its Discontents
      2. TWENTY-NINE The Five Rules of Successful Acquisitions
      3. THIRTY The Innovative Organization
      4. THIRTY-ONE The No-Growth Enterprise
      5. THIRTY-TWO Why Automation Pays Off
      6. THIRTY-THREE IBM’s Watson: Vision for Tomorrow
      7. THIRTY-FOUR The Lessons of the Bell Breakup
      8. THIRTY-FIVE Social Needs and Business Opportunities
    11. Afterword: Social Innovation—Management’s New Dimension
    12. Acknowledgments
    13. Index
  9. Practical Leadership
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. Publisher’s Note
    5. Preface
    6. Interview: Notes on the Post-Business Society
    7. Part I: Economics
      1. ONE: The Futures Already Around Us
      2. TWO: The Poverty of Economic Theory
      3. THREE: The Transnational Economy
      4. FOUR: From World Trade to World Investment
      5. FIVE: The Lessons of the U.S. Export Boom
      6. SIX: Low Wages: No Longer a Competitive Edge
      7. SEVEN: Europe in the 1990s: Strategies for Survival
      8. EIGHT: U.S.–Japan Trade Needs a Reality Check
      9. NINE: Japan’s Great Postwar Weapon
      10. TEN: Misinterpreting Japan and the Japanese
      11. ELEVEN: Help Latin America and Help Ourselves
      12. TWELVE: Mexico’s Ace in the Hole: The Maquiladora
    8. Part II: People
      1. THIRTEEN: The New Productivity Challenge
      2. FOURTEEN: The Mystique of the Business Leader
      3. FIFTEEN: Leadership: More Doing Than Dash
      4. SIXTEEN: People, Work, and the Future of the City
      5. SEVENTEEN: The Fall of the Blue-Collar Worker
      6. EIGHTEEN: End Work Rules and Job Descriptions
      7. NINETEEN: Making Managers of Communist Bureaucrats
      8. TWENTY: China’s Nightmare: No Jobs for the Millions
    9. Part III: Management
      1. TWENTY-ONE: Tomorrow’s Managers: The Major Trends
      2. TWENTY-TWO: How to Manage the Boss
      3. TWENTY-THREE: What Really Ails the U.S. Auto Industry
      4. TWENTY-FOUR: The New Japanese Business Strategies
      5. TWENTY-FIVE: Manage by Walking Around—Outside!
      6. TWENTY-SIX: Corporate Culture: Use It, Don’t Lose It
      7. TWENTY-SEVEN: Permanent Cost Cutting: Permanent Policy
      8. TWENTY-EIGHT: What the Nonprofits Are Teaching Business
      9. TWENTY-NINE: Nonprofit Governance: Lessons for Success
      10. THIRTY: The Nonprofits’ Outreach Revolution
    10. Part IV: The Organization
      1. THIRTY-ONE: The Governance of Corporations
      2. THIRTY-TWO: Four Marketing Lessons for the Future
      3. THIRTY-THREE: Tomorrow’s Company: Dressed for Success
      4. THIRTY-FOUR: Company Performance: Five Telltale Tests
      5. THIRTY-FIVE: R&D: The Best Is Business-Driven
      6. THIRTY-SIX: Sell the Mailroom: Unbundling in the ’90s
      7. THIRTY-SEVEN: The 10 Rules of Effective Research
      8. THIRTY-EIGHT: The Trend Toward Alliances for Progress
      9. THIRTY-NINE: A Crisis of Capitalism: Who’s in Charge?
      10. FORTY: The Emerging Theory of Manufacturing
    11. Afterword: The 1990s and Beyond
    12. Acknowledgments
    13. Index
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