本书收录了被誉为“现代管理宗师”德鲁克教授近20年撰写的具有经典意义和代表性的、写于不同时代的58篇论文。由德鲁克教授亲自遴选并欣然为其在中国的出版作序。所选论文涉及现代企业组织及其管理，有效决策及效益评估，未来企业组织的治理结构，绩效测评，创新管理及知识工作者的管理，企业家精神等管理领域的诸多方面。通过阅读本书，读者充分领略德鲁克先生对管理问题独特的研究视角，犀利的见解，渊博的知识，批判式的眼光及前瞻性的预测，并被这位“当今少数几位改变世界的思想家之一”所折服。

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REFACE TO EDITION FOR CHINA

PART I THE FRONTIERS OF MANAGEMENT

Introduction The Future Is Being Shaped Today

Chapter 1 The Changed World Economy

Chapter 2 America's Entrepreneurial. Job Machine

Chapter 3 Why OPEC Had to Fail

Chapter 4 The Changing Multinational

Chapter 5 Modem Prophets: Schumpeter or Keynes?

Chapter 6 Picking People: The Basic Rules

  Chapter 7 Measuring White-Collar Productivity

Chapter 8 Management: The Problems of Success

Chapter 9 The Information-Based Organization

Chapter 10 Management as a Liberal Art

Chapter 11 The Five Rules of Successful Acquisitions

Chapter 12 The Innovative Organization

Chapter 13 Social Needs and Business Opportunities

Afterword:Social Innovation -- Management's New Dimension

PART II THE CHANGING WORLD OF THE EXECUTIVE

Introduction: A Society of Organizations

Chapter 1 A Scorecard for Management

Chapter 2 Helping Small Businesses Cope

Chapter 3 The Delusion of Profits

Chapter 4 Managing Capital Productivity

Chapter 5 Six Durable Economic Myths

Chapter 6 Measuring Business Performance

Chapter 7 Managing the Knowledge Worker

Chapter 8 The Rise of Production Sharing

Afterword:The Matter of “Business Ethics”

PART III MANAGING FOR THE FUTURE: THE 1990s AND BEYOND

Interview: Notes on the Post-Business Society

Chapter 1 The New Productivity Challenge

Chapter 2 Leadership: More Doing Than Dash

Chapter 3 Tomorrow's Managers: The Major Trends

Chapter 4 How to Manage the Boss

Chapter 5 Manage by Walking Around - Outside!

Chapter 6 What the Nonprofits Are Teaching Business

Chapter 7 Nonprofit Governance: Lessons for Success

Chapter 8 The'Governance of Corporations

Chapter 9 Four Marketing Lessons for the Future

Chapter 10 Company Performance: Five Telltale Tests

Chapter 11 R & D: The Best Is Business-Driven

Chapter 12 The 10 Rules of Effective Research

Chapter 13 The Emerging Theory of Manufacturing

Afterword: The 1990s and Beyond

PART IV MANAGing IN A TIME OF GREAT CHANGE

Interview: The Post-Capitalist Executive

Chapter 1 The Theory of the Business

Chapter 2 Planning for Uncertainty

Chapter 3 The Five Deadly Business Sins

Chapter 4 Managing the Family Business

Chapter 5 Six Rules for Presidents

Chapter 6 Managing in the Network Society

Chapter 7 The New Society of Organizations

Chapter 8 We Need to Measure, Not Count

Chapter 9 There's Three Kinds of Teams

Chapter 10 The Information Executives Need Today

Chapter 11 Trade Lessons from the World Economy

Chapter 12 The US Economy's Power Shift

Chapter 13 Where the New Markets Are

Chapter 14 A Century of Social Transformations

Chapter 15 Reinventing Government

Chapter 16 Can the Democracies Win the Peace?

Interview: Managing in a Post-Capitalist Society: An Interview with Industry Week

       Conducted by Tom Brown