Introduction to the revised edition of Management: Tasks, Responsibilities
Preface
Introduction: management and managers defined
Management as a social function and liberal act
The dimensions of management
Management's new realities
Management's new realities Part I - Knowledge is all
Management's new realities part II - New demographics
The new realities Part III - Future of the corporation and the way ahead
Management's new paradigm
Business performance
The theory of business
The purpose and objective of a business
Making the future today
Strategic planning: the entrepreneurial skill
Performance in service institutions
Managing service institutions in the society of organizations
What successful and performing nonprofits are teaching business
The accountable school
Rethinking "reinventing government"
Entrepreneurship in the public-service institution
Productive work and achieving worker
Making work productive and the worker achieving
Managing the work and worker in manual work
Managing the work and worker in knowledge work
Social impacts and social responsibilities
Social impacts and social responsibilities
The new pluralism: how to balance the special purpose of the institution with the common good
The manager's work and jobs
Why managers?
Design and content of managerial jobs
Developing management and managers
Management by objectives and self-control
From middle management to information-based organizations
The spirit of performance
Managerial skills
The elements of effective decision making
How to make people decisions
Managerial communications
Controls, control, and management
The manager and the budget
Information tools and concepts
Innovation and entrepreneurship
The entrepreneurial business
The new venture
Entrepreneurial strategies
Systematic innovation using windows of opportunity
Managerial organization
Strategies and structures
Work- and task-focused design
Kinds of teams
Result- and relation-focused design
Alliances
The CEO in the new millennium
The governance of the corporation
New demands on the individual
Managing oneself
Managing the boss
Realizing oneself - seven personal experiences
The educated person
Conclusion: the manager of tomorrow
Bibliography
Drucker annotated bibliography
About Peter F. Drucker
About the Peter F. Drucker Institute
Index.