Management Challenges for the 21st Century

Discover Peter F. Drucker's indispensable roadmap to the social, economic, and managerial realities reshaping modern enterprise.

Peter F. Drucker discusses how the new paradigms of management have changed and will continue to change our basic assumptions about the practices and principles of management.

Drucker investigates structural changes already underway across developed economies rather than speculative future projections. The text examines unexamined assumptions regarding organizational structure, information requirements, and the productivity of knowledge workers.

The work grounds its counsel in operational realities that institutions can neither evade nor postpone, staying rigorous and pragmatic throughout.

Forward-looking and forward-thinking, Management Challenges for the 21st Century combines the broad knowledge, wide practical experience, profound insight, sharp analysis, and enlightened common sense that are the essence of Drucker's writings and "landmarks of the managerial profession." --Harvard Business Review

• Strategy: Drucker outlines five social and demographic certainties, from collapsing birthrates to shifts in disposable income, that shape institutional survival.
• The Change Leader: The volume details operational habits for staying ahead of upheaval, including systematic abandonment, piloting innovations, and maintaining separate operating and future budgets.
• Information Challenges: Drucker examines the transition from mere data collection and cost accounting to outside-focused information systems designed for executive action.
• Knowledge-Worker Productivity: The analysis identifies the requirements for making knowledge workers productive, treating them as capital assets rather than operating costs.
• Also by This Author: The Effective Executive, The Essential Drucker and Managing the Non-Profit Organization.