TY - BOOK AU - Drucker,Peter F. TI - The essential Drucker: the best of sixty years of Peter Drucker's essential writings on management SN - 0061345016 (pbk.) U1 - 658 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Collins KW - Industrial management KW - Success in business KW - Management KW - History KW - Organization KW - Entrepreneurship N1 - Includes index; Originally published: HarperBusiness, c2001; 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 ER -