From Publishers Weekly
Bestselling management guru Drucker's latest offering is a grab bag of articles published since 1991, though he states that every piece was written with this book in mind. Extending the insights of his Post-Capitalist Society (1993), he stresses that information has emerged as the executive's key resource and a company's bedrock; as a consequence, he recommends that teams replace traditional boss-subordinate relationships. With his trademark cogency and clarity, Drucker offers invaluable practical insights for managers at all levels. One piece enumerates the "five deadly business sins"; another argues that every company operates according to its own theory of business?a set of assumptions about its environment, mission and core competencies?that needs to be made explicit and monitored. Drucker probes the impact of the information revolution on retailing, sets forth guidelines for family-controlled businesses and urges policy changes to assist nonprofit organizations. He calls upon the federal government to institute periodic performance critiques of every federal agency and program. He is at his provocative best in arguing that we can revive our national economy only by forging an aggressive global economic policy that jettisons protectionism and gives international trade priority over domestic problems.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal
The worldview of management guru Drucker is carefully thought out and simply composed, which makes his works easy to digest. Similar to his Managing for the Future (LJ 1/92), this book is a collection of essays and articles previously published in well-known periodicals since 1991. Drucker selected pieces that received positive responses and made them into chapters arranged by four topics: management, information-based organization, the economy, and society. In some instances, a few essays were lengthened, and the epilog was written strictly for the book. Executives and longtime Drucker aficionados will particularly enjoy having these well-regarded essays in one package. Highly recommended for all business collections.
--Rebecca A. Smith, Harvard Business Sch. Lib.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Preface
It is not so very difficult to predict the future. It is only pointless. Many futurologists have high batting averages--the way they measure themselves and are commonly measured. They do a good job of foretelling some things. But always far more important are the fundamental changes that happened though no one predicted them or could possibly have predicted them. Looking back ten years today, no one in 1985 predicted--or could have predicted--that the establishment of the European Economic Community would not release explosive economic growth in Europe but would, on the contrary, usher in a decade of economic stagnation and petty bickering. As a result, the United Europe of 1995 is actually weaker in the world economy than was the fractured Europe of 1985...But equally important, one cannot make decision for the future. Decisions are commitments to action. And actions are always in the present, and in the present only. But actions in the present are also the one and only way to make the future. Executives are paid to execute--that is, take effective action. That they can do only in contemplation of the present, and by exploiting the changes that have already happened...To enable today's executive to be ahead of this different tomorrow--indeed to make it their tomorrow--is the aim of this book. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From AudioFile
Peter Drucker, author and one of America's top business experts, focuses this recent work on the changes and uncertainty in today's business environment. A brief, inspiring introduction is given by the master himself. Presenting at a quick pace, reader Campanella is competent and enterprising in his delivery of Drucker's words of wisdom and counsel. The information on these tapes is priceless with regard to understanding new business, marketing strategies, cost savings for retailers and the global economy into the twenty-first century. Although it may require repeated listening, this audiobook is masterfully recorded and performed. J.A.A. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist
Drucker is the foremost management thinker of our time and also a keen social observer and prolific writer. His Post-Capitalist Society (1993) deftly analyzes a future in which the workplace will be dominated by the "knowledge worker," a phrase Drucker coined 35 years ago. This most recent book is a collection of Drucker's writing that has appeared since 1991 in such periodicals as the Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, and Harvard Business Review all, says Drucker, with the intent of eventually being anthologized. Each article is noteworthy. "A Century of Social Transformation," "Really Reinventing Government," and "The End of Japan, Inc." are typically seminal, filled with Drucker's insights. In contrast to his forward-looking, startlingly accurate New Realities (1989), this book's 25 pieces and two interviews deal with "changes that have already irreversibly happened." Drucker offers them up as a challenge to executives who he hopes will take action to help "make the future." David Rouse --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Book Description
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 Managing in a Time of Great Change, a bestseller for months in hardcover, is a wide-ranging guide for navigating the 1990s into the 21st century.
• The hardcover sales of Managing in a Time of Great Change 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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.