21st Century Management Challenges

Author: Peter Drucker
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: We are living in a profound transformation period. Current management thinking still relies on the fundamental assumptions from the 20th century, with few people paying attention to whether they are "facts." In reality, they have become outdated. If strategies are formulated based on incorrect assumptions, it will inevitably lead the organization down the wrong path. This book focuses only on tomorrow's "hot" issues—critical, decisive, life-and-death, and tomorrow's major challenges—and will deeply analyze the challenges faced by 21st-century managers from the following six aspects:... The book is divided into six chapters, each elaborating on six key issues: the new paradigm of management, strategy—new inevitable trends, change agents, the information challenge, the productivity of knowledge workers, and self-management.