Managing in the Next Society

Name: Managing in the Next Society
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Peter F. Drucker
ISBN: 9781593970925

Author: Peter F. Drucker

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Abridged: 3 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Published: 03/01/2003

Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Synopsis

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.

About Peter F. Drucker

For more than 60 years, the innovative writings, lectures, and seminars of Peter F. Drucker have made him the preeminent thinker and writer on all aspects of organizational management in the 20th century. He and his wife, Doris, live in Claremont, California.

About Arthur Morey

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. He has won three AudioFile Magazine 'Best Of' Awards: in 2011 for BIOGRAPHY & HISTORY, in for History & Historical Fiction, and in 2009 for Nonfiction & Culture. His work has also garnered multiple AudioFile Earphones awards, and he has been nominated for an Audie Award.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Aasim on July 17, 2016

This probably was a good book... 10 years ago! The "next" society is already in the past. My rating, for that reason: 3/10......more

Goodreads review by Richard on January 31, 2021

He is a deliberately perceptive and honest observer of management and the corporate world. It’s too bad he’s not alive today to take a good look at business men and women, and their businesses. Drucker had many compelling insights about how to manage people and operations in a world that he assumed, d......more

Goodreads review by Alberto on February 22, 2017

An awesome book! No doubt that Mr. Drucker had the greatest foresight for his time. In my list of the best business books to read: [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Kanti Brahma on January 29, 2011

Peter Drucrker guides readers through the patterns of evolution of societies in this book. The book dwells with the patterns of modern societies, the rationale behind the societal change, effect of demography on management issues. The book has four parts. The first part covers the reasons of informa......more

Goodreads review by Krishna on February 20, 2017

Peter Drucker tries to predict the future of businesses in the next century. Increasing globalization and technological advances bring challenges and opportunities. There is an increasing role for non-governmental organizations in addressing some of the pressing problems of our society. Drucker also......more

Quotes

“Our debt to Peter Drucker know no limits.” —Tom Peters