Peter F. Drucker on the Network Economy

by Peter F. Drucker

Overview

Succeeding in the Network Economy

Peter F. Drucker has inspired and educated managers and influenced the practice of management for generations. Writing across six decades, Drucker was one of the first business thinkers to understand the new rules as well as the skills required for success in the network economy.

In this collection of essays, Drucker offers timeless insights on what it takes to lead a profitable enterprise in a time when networks and information have largely replaced consumable goods. He guides executives on how to recognize when to invent the future instead of being overtaken by it. These essays offer advice on many important business topics, including:

• Planning and strategizing in uncertain times
• Understanding how a network economy works
• Cultivating long-term business intelligence
• Building strategic alliances
• Mastering the roles and skills required in a network economy

Peter F. Drucker on the Network Economy contains insights that have not only proved to be true over time but remain deeply urgent and relevant today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781633699564
Publisher:	Harvard Business Review Press
Publication date:	05/26/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) is one of the best-known and most widely influential thinkers on the subject of management theory and practice, and his writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern corporation.

Often described as "the father of modern management theory," Drucker explored how people are organized across the business, government, and nonprofit sectors of society; he predicted many of the major business developments of the late twentieth century, including privatization and decentralization, the rise of Japan to economic world power, the critical importance of marketing, and the emergence of the information society with its implicit necessity of lifelong learning. In 1959, Drucker coined the term "knowledge worker" and in his later life considered knowledge-worker productivity to be the next frontier of management.

Peter Drucker died on November 11, 2005, in Claremont, California. He had four children and six grandchildren.

You can find more about Peter F. Drucker at cgu.edu/center/the-drucker-institute.

Table of Contents

Publisher's Note vii

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Interview: The Post-Capitalist Executive xv

Part I Management

1 The Theory of the Business 3

2 Planning for Uncertainty 19

3 The Five Deadly Business Sins 25

4 Managing the Family Business 31

5 Six Rules for Presidents 37

6 Managing in the Network Society 43

Part II The Information-Based Organization

7 The New Society of Organizations 53

8 There Are Three Kinds of Teams 71

9 The Information Revolution in Retail 77

10 Be Data Literate; Know What to Know 83

11 We Need to Measure, Not Count 89

12 The Information Executives Need Today 93

Part III The Economy

13 Trade Lessons from the World Economy 113

14 The U.S. Economy's Power Shift 133

15 Where the New Markets Are 139

16 The Pacific Rim and the World Economy 145

17 China's Growth Markets 149

18 The End of Japan, Inc.? 155

19 A Weak Dollar Strengthens Japan 163

20 The New Superpower: The Overseas Chinese 169

Part IV The Society

21 A Century of Social Transformation 177

22 It Profits Us to Strengthen Nonprofits 231

23 Knowledge Work and Gender Roles 237

24 Reinventing Government 241

25 Can the Democracies Win the Peace? 261

Interview: Managing in a Post-Capitalist Society 291

Index 301