Preface : the future is being shaped today
Interview : a talk with a wide-ranging mind
The changed world economy
America's entrepreneurial job machine
Why OPEC had to fail
The changing multinational
Managing currency exposure
Export markets and domestic policies
Europe's high-tech ambitions
What we can learn from the Germans
On entering the Japanese market
Trade with Japan : the way it works
The perils of adversarial trade
Modern prophets : Schumpeter or Keynes?
Picking people : the basic rules
Measuring white-collar productivity
Twilight of the first-line supervisor?
Overpaid executives : the greed effect
Overage executives : keeping firms young
Paying the professional schools
Jobs and people : the growing mismatch
Quality education : the new growth area
Management : the problems of success
Getting control of staff work
Slimming management's midriff
The information-based organization
Are labor unions becoming irrelevant?
Union flexibility : why it's now a must
Management as a liberal art
The hositle takeover and its discontents
The five rules of successful acquisitions
The innovative organization
The no-growth enterprise
Why automation pays off
IBM's Watson : vision for tomorrow
The lessons of the bell breakup
Social needs and business opportunities.