Drucker, Peter F.  1909-2005 <br/><br/>
The essential Drucker :  the best of sixty years of Peter Drucker's essential writings on management / 
Peter F. Drucker 
 - New York :  Collins,  2008. 
 - x, 357 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index.  Originally published: HarperBusiness, c2001. 
<br/><br/>Management as social function and liberal art -- The dimensions of management -- The purpose and objectives of a business -- What the nonprofits are teaching business -- Social impacts and social problems -- Management's new paradigms -- The information executives need today -- Management by objectives and self-control -- Picking people : the basic rules -- The entrepreneurial business -- The new venture -- Entrepreneurial strategies -- Effectiveness must be learned -- Focus on contribution -- Know your strengths and values -- Know your time -- Effective decisions -- Functioning communications -- Leadership as work -- Principles of innovation -- The second half of your life -- The educated person -- A century of social transformation : emergence of knowledge society -- The coming of entrepreneurial society -- Citizenship through the social sector -- From analysis to perception : the new worldview. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0061345016 (pbk.) 9780061345012 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Industrial management<br/>Success in business<br/>Management--History<br/>Organization<br/>Entrepreneurship
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>658  / DRU