Management / Peter F. Drucker with Joseph A. Maciariello ; [foreword by Jim Collins].

Introduction: management and managers defined -- Management as a social function and liberal art -- The dimensions of management -- pt. 1: Management's new realities. Knowledge is all -- New demographics -- The future of the corporation and the way ahead -- Management's new paradigm -- pt. 2: Business performance. The theory of the business -- The purpose and objectives of a business -- Making the future today -- Strategic planning: the entrepreneurial skill -- pt. 3: 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 -- pt. 4: 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 -- pt. 5: 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 -- pt. 6: 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 -- pt. 7: 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 -- pt. 8: Innovation and entrepreneurship. The entrepreneurial business -- The new venture -- Entrepreneurial strategies -- Systematic innovation using windows of opportunity -- pt. 9: Managerial organization. Strategies and structures -- Work- and task-focused design -- Three kinds of teams -- Result- and relation-focused design -- Alliances -- The CEO in the new millennium -- The impact of pension funds on corporate governance -- pt. 10: New demands on the individual. Managing oneself -- Managing the boss -- Realizing oneself: seven personal experiences -- The educated person -- Conclusion: the manager of tomorrow.

Previous ed. issued with subtitle: Tasks, responsibilities, practices.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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