Synopses & Reviews
Change has become a constant. Changes in the way we live and work. Changes in institutions and the society around us. Changes in people's needs and desires. For more than 60 years, Peter Drucker has been modern society's preeminent thinker, lecturer, and writer of and about change and its effect on management.
Now, at the start of the 21st century, this major new title takes the listener into two broad areas of life today: first, the information society and its new and vastly different employee, the knowledge worker; and second, the underlying trends in today's society that are already influencing, and will greatly change tomorrow's. These major trends include: The Global Baby Bust; The New U.S. Demographics; The New York Force; The More competitive Knowledge Society; and the Future of Top Management, among others.
Review
"Our debt to Peter Drucker know no limits." -
Tom Peters
Synopsis
In this essential book for anyone managing today, a preeminent thinker, lecturer, and writer explores the emerging information revolution and the hidden trends now transforming our world.
Synopsis
Following in the successful vein of
Managing for the Future (1992) and
Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995), the incomparable Peter Drucker is back with fresh thoughts, insights, and knowledge about the ever-changing business society around us and the ever-expanding management roles required of us all-chiefs, executives, managers, and knowledge workers alike.
Two main themes are explored in many of the chapters in Managing in the Next Society: the rapidly expanding information shock wave that had its Internet Big Bang as recently as 1995; and the changing shape of our society to come-six major trends that are rapidly transforming our world into what Peter Drucker calls The Next Society.
Synopsis
World famous management expert Peter Drucker explores today's information and reveals the major new trends that are taking us to a very different society tomorrow.
About the Author
For more than 60 yars, the innovative writings, lectures, and seminars of
Peter F. Drucker have made him the preeminent thinker and writer on all aspects of organizational management ib the 20th century. He and his wife, Doris, live in Claremont, California.
Arthur Morey has recorded countless audiobooks, including titles by such authors as M. Scott Peck, John Updike, Richard Russo, Anne Tyler, and John Irving. He attended Harvard and the University of Chicago and has taught performance and writing at Fordham, Northwestern, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Arthur has appeared in a host of off-Broadway and off-Loop productions. In 2009, he was awarded
AudioFile magazine's Best Voice in Nonfiction & Culture award. His work has also garnered multiple
AudioFile Earphones awards, and he has been nominated for an Audie Award.