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Managing in the Next Society (by Peter Drucker)

Managing in the Next Society (by Peter Drucker)
- Preface
- The Information society
  - Beyond the Information Revolution
    - The railroad
    - Routinization
    - The meaning of E-Commerce
    - Luther, Machiavelli, and the Salmom
    - The gentleman versus the technologist
    - Bribing the knowledge worker
  - The Exploding World of the Internet
  - From Computer Literacy to Information Literacy
  - E-Commerce: The Central Challenge
    - Cars by e-mail
  - The New Economy Isn't Here Yet
  - The CEO in the New Millennium
    - Transforming governance
    - New approaches to information
    - Command-and-control
    - The rise of knowledge work
    - Tying it together
- Business opportunities
  - Entrepreneurs and Innovation
    - The four entrepreneurial pitfalls
    - Can large companies foster entrepreneurship?
    - The rise of social entrepreneurship
  - They're Not Employees, They're People
    - Strangled in red tape
    - The splintered organization
    - Companies don't get it
    - The key to competitive advantage
    - Free managers—to manage people
  - Financial Services: Innovate or Die
    - A wider transformation
    - Time for innovations
  - Moving Beyond Capitalism?
    - Capitalism vs. free markets. The civil society (taking action to improve the lives of others)
    - The Asian crisis
    - On Japan
    - On China
- The changing world economy
  - The Rise of the Great Institutions
    - Control over the Fief
    - Needed autonomy
  - The Global Economy and the Nation-State
    - A true survivor
    - The nation-state afloat
    - Virtual money
    - Breaking the rules
    - Selling to the world
    - War after global economics
  - It's the Society, Stupid
    - A heretics' view
    - Descending from heaven
    - Elites rule
    - A policy about nothing
    - The social contract
    - It's the society, stupid
  - On Civilizing the City
    - Reality of rural life
    - The need for community
- The next society (From The Economist)
  - Knowledge is all
  - The new protectionism
  - The future of the corporation
  - The new demographics
    - Needed but unwanted
    - A country of immigrants
    - The end of the single market
    - Beware demographic changes
  - The new workforce
    - His and hers
    - Ever upward
    - The price of success
  - The manufacturing paradox
    - Smaller numbers, bigger clout
  - Will the corporation survive?
    - Everything in its place
    - Who needs a research lab?
    - The next company
    - From corporation to confederation
    - The Toyota way
  - The future of top management
    - Life at the top
    - Impossible jobs
  - The way ahead
    - The future corporation
    - People policies
    - Outside information
    - Change agents
    - And then?
      - Big ideas
- Acknowledgments
- Index

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