Managing in the Next Society

Peter F. Drucker

Macmillan, 2003 - Business & Economics - 321 pages

Following in the successful vein of Managing for the Future (1992) and Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995), the incomparable Peter Drucker is back with fresh thoughts, insights, and knowledge about the ever-changing business society around us and the ever-expanding management roles required of us all-chiefs, executives, managers, and knowledge workers alike.

Two main themes are explored in many of the chapters in Managing in the Next Society: the rapidly expanding information shock wave that had its Internet Big Bang as recently as 1995; and the changing shape of our society to come-six major trends that are rapidly transforming our world into what Peter Drucker calls The Next Society.

Contents

• THE INFORMATION SOCIETY: 1
• BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES: 91
• Moving Beyond Capitalism?: 149
• THE CHANGING WORLD ECONOMY: 173
• THE NEXT SOCIETY: 233
• Acknowledgments: 301

About the author

From his first book, The End of Economic Man (1939), to this his most recent, Peter F. Drucker has been hailed in the United States and abroad as the seminal thinker, writer, and lecturer of our time on the twentieth-century business organization in all its for-profit and non-profit guises and forms. The recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, Mr. Drucker since 1971 has been Clarke Professor of Social Sciences at Claremont Graduate School in California as well as a frequent editorial page contributer to The Wall Street Journal. Earlier he taught at Bennington, Sarah Lawrence, and New York University. Mr. Drucker and his wife, Doris, live in Claremont, California.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Managing in the Next Society
• Author: Peter F. Drucker
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2003
• ISBN: 0312320116, 9780312320119
• Length: 321 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Development / Business Development; Business & Economics / Entrepreneurship; Business & Economics / Industrial Management; Business & Economics / Management