The Changing World of the Executive

This major exploration of managerial problem-solving is Peter F. Drucker's most important organizational guide and companion to have appeared in years. Readable, wide-ranging, direct, practical - the new Drucker brings together the celebrated author's most current and useful ideas and insights on ways in which executives managers can better understand the new duties and carry out the new responsibilities mandated by the tidal sea changes taking place everywhere around us.

In the U.S. as well as in Europe and Japan the workaday world has become a "society of organizations." It is therefore increasingly dependent upon new as well as seasoned managers and administrators, the rapidly expanding numbers of people who are paid to direct the modern world's many kinds of organizations and to make them perform. The Changing World of the Executive analyzes the important new stress areas and pressure points that large numbers of professional middle and senior managers are and will be facing now and in the years immediately ahead. And every page is written in the author's clear and illuminating prose.

There are chapters that explore changes in the work force, its jobs, and its expectations, and in the newer office and work- place relationships. There are chapters that look closely at the evolving tasks and increased responsibilities of managers, at their performance and its measurement, and at executive compensation. And there are chapters that seek to understand the current problems and challenges facing all major institutions, including not only business enterprises but also schools, hospitals, and government agencies.

The Changing World of the Executive is certain to be received as another of Peter F. Drucker's extraordinarily prescient books; as an important milestone in the study of managerial affairs; and as a window on today's and tomorrow's organizational tasks, practices, and requirements. Much of this book appeared in The Wall Street Journal during the last seven years. All of it appears here in volume form for the first time.

From his first book, The End of Economic Man (1939), to his recent best-seller, Managing in Turbulent Times (1980), the incomparable Peter Ferdinand Drucker has been hailed in the U.S. and abroad as Mr. Management, the seminal thinker, writer, and lecturer of our time on the twentieth- century business organization in all of 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 Science at Claremont Graduate School in California and is also an editorial page columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He earlier taught at Bennington, Sarah Lawrence, and New York University. Mr. Drucker and his wife currently live in Claremont, California.
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