Managing in a Globalized Economy In this collection of essays, renowned management thinker and teacher Peter F. Drucker guides leaders on how to find opportunities and make the right decisions in a business context that is increasingly global. This collection delivers a set of urgently needed lessons on how business leaders today can manage through complexity and volatility,and make the wisest possible choices while balancing the perils and promise of globalization. Using in-depth stories and examples from a diverse range of sectors, industries, and geographies, Drucker offers managers insight into: -The global economic trends impacting world trade -The productivity of the global workforce -Managing major organizational decisions in a turbulent environment Both timely and enduring, Peter F. Drucker on Globalization is a forward-looking guidebook packed with practical wisdom.

Intro -- Contents -- Publisher's Note -- Preface -- Interview: A Talk with a Wide-Ranging Mind -- Part I: Economics -- Ch 1: The Changed World Economy -- Ch 2: America's Entrepreneurial Job Machine -- Ch 3: Why OPEC Had to Fail -- Ch 4: The Changing Multinational -- Ch 5: Managing Currency Exposure -- Ch 6: Export Markets and Domestic Policies -- Ch 7: Europe's High-Tech Ambitions -- Ch 8: What We Can Learn from the Germans -- Ch 9: On Entering the Japanese Market -- Ch 10: Trade with Japan -- Ch 11: The Perils of Adversarial Trade -- Ch 12: Modern Prophets -- Part II: People Ch 13: Picking People -- Ch 14: Measuring White-Collar Productivity -- Ch 15: Twilight of the First-Line Supervisor? -- Ch 16: Overpaid Executives -- Ch 17: Overage Executives -- Ch 18: Paying the Professional Schools -- Ch 19: Jobs and People -- Ch 20: Quality Education -- Part III: Management -- Ch 21: Management -- Ch 22: Getting Control of Staff Work -- Ch 23: Slimming Management's Midriff -- Ch 24: The Information-Based Organization -- Ch 25: Are Labor Unions Becoming Irrelevant? -- Ch 26: Union Flexibility -- Ch 27: Management as a Liberal Art -- Part IV: The Organization Ch 28: The Hostile Takeover and Its Discontents -- Ch 29: The Five Rules of Successful Acquisitions -- Ch 30: The Innovative Organization -- Ch 31: The No-Growth Enterprise -- Ch 32: Why Automation Pays Off -- Ch 33: IBM's Watson -- Ch 34: The Lessons of the Bell Breakup -- Ch 35: Social Needs and Business Opportunities -- Afterword: Social Innovation -- Management's New Dimension -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Managing in a Globalized Economy In this collection of essays, renowned management thinker and teacher Peter F. Drucker guides leaders on how to find opportunities and make the right decisions in a business context that is increasingly global. This collection delivers a set of urgently needed lessons on how business leaders today can manage through complexity and volatility,and make the wisest possible choices while balancing the perils and promise of globalization. Using in-depth stories and examples from a diverse range of sectors, industries, and geographies, Drucker offers managers insight into: -The global economic trends impacting world trade -The productivity of the global workforce -Managing major organizational decisions in a turbulent environment Both timely and enduring, Peter F. Drucker on Globalization is a forward-looking guidebook packed with practical wisdom