Peter F Drucker

Exploring the strategies that make any company prosper and grow, this study describes exactly what the business executive must do to drive an enterprise forward. Emphasis is placed on the economic tasks each business must undertake in order to achieve success.

Reflecting the changes occurring in the world economy, Peter F. Drucker examines ways of delivering success, assesses knowledge worker productivity and discusses ways of managing knowledge workers and management itself.

"What makes an effective executive? For decades, Peter F. Drucker was widely regarded as "the dean of this country's business and management philosophers" (Wall Street Journal). In this concise and brilliant work, he looks to the most influential position in management--the executive. The measure of the executive, Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well...