Management, Organizational Change, Structural Adjustment 

America's pre-eminent management lecturer and writer takes the management world inside timely and varied problems and opportunities of the 1990s. Drucker's latest book explores: • The urgent requirement for each company to have a "theory of business" • The five deadliest business sins of the 90s • The need for executives to routinely seek new kinds of business and market information that today's technology provides • Competition in the global economy • How to develop new international markets • Rules for managing the many kinds of family-owned businesses continuing to outnumber all other forms in the U.S. • The extraordinary new cost-savings revolution in retailing <i>Managing in a Time of Great Change</i>, a bestseller for months in hardcover, is a wide-ranging guide for navigating the 1990s into the 21st century. • The hardcover sales of <i>Managing in a Time of Great Change</i> are approaching 70,000 copies. • Drucker remains the greatest "name" among all business and management writers today. • Drucker's business pieces for the Wall Street Journal are read by millions. - from Amazon 

pt. 1. Management. The theory of the business -- Planning for uncertainty -- The five deadly business sins -- Managing the family business -- Six rules for presidents -- Managing in the network society -- pt. 2. The information-based organization. The new society of organizations -- There's three kinds of teams -- The information revolution in retail -- Be data literate; know what to know -- We need to measure, not count -- The information executives need today -- pt. 3. The economy. Trade lessons from the world economy -- The U.S. economy's power shift -- Where the new markets are -- The Pacific Rim and the world economy -- China's growth markets -- The end of Japan, Inc.? -- A weak dollar strengthens Japan -- The new superpower: the overseas Chinese -- pt. 4. The society. A century of social transformation -- It profits us to strengthen nonprofits -- Knowledge work and gender roles -- Reinventing government -- Can the democracies win the peace? -- Interview: managing in a post-Capitalist society.