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Title: Managing for the Future
Author: Peter F. Drucker
Narrator: Bill Weideman
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-05-10
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 32 votes
Genres: Business, Management
Publisher's Summary:
The name Drucker is synonymous with management. His many works stand as classics in management literature. Today, more than ever, Peter Drucker is looked to and listened to by business leaders and economic scholars grappling with the challenge of change.
This major work brings together his stimulating and enlightening views on the new world order for business and on management imperatives. He brings clear-sighted analysis and practical inspiration to an interesting array of subjects: the end of the era of the blue-collar worker; the ultimate bankruptcy of economic pump priming by the federal government; the lessons that nonprofit enterprises can teach big business; the changing attitudes of middle managers as the doctrine of company loyalty gives way to the demand for rewarding achievement; and many more.
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Peter F. Drucker: Managing for the Future 1992 - re-visited in 2015
Peter Drucker starts his Preface to this book with a reference to his book âThe Frontiers of Managementâ published in 1985. You should be aware that âThe Frontiers of Managementâ was published several times, e.g. in 1997 with new comments to all four parts.
âManaging for the Futureâ, first printing in 1992, consists of 39 chapters written between August 1986; [Drucker original quotes follow] âin the same week I wrote the first draft of what was published â in early winter of 1989 â as Chapter 4 in my book The New Realities under the title âWhen the Russian Empire is Goneâ â in which I predicted the inevitable failure of Mr. Gorbachevâs economic policies, the equally inevitable collapse of communism, and the disintegration of the Soviet Unionâ; and August 1991 âin the week after the Communist hardlinersâ putsch against Mr. Gorbachev had failed.â
Today, we all know, that the Soviet Union was declared as dissolved on December 8, 1991.
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus established the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in its place. Today CIS has nine full member states â Ukraine is no member state anymore.
With a view on Peter Druckerâs lessons for the future I want to select some topics with original Peter Drucker quotes. Where appropriate I will add my comments marked MC.
Chapter 1 The Futures Already Around Us â
Finally, corporate size will by the end of the coming decade have become a strategic decision. Neither âbig is betterâ nor âsmall is beautifulâ makes much sense. Neither elephant nor mouse nor butterfly is, in itself, âbetterâ or âmore beautiful.â Size follows function, as a great Scots biologist, DâArcy Wentworth Thompson, showed in his 1917 classic On Growth and Form. â
Management will increasingly have to decide on the right size for a business, the size that fits its technology, its strategy and its markets. This is both a difficult and risky decision â and the right answer is rarely the size that best fits a managementâs ego.
MC: Robin Chase published PEERS INC in 2015 with the subtitle How People and Platforms are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism.
