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Opportunities to flex your professionalism—Congress 2002

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A probing and incisive analysis of the major world transformation from the Age of Capitalism to the Knowledge Society and how it will affect society, economics, business, and politics now and in the years ahead. In Post-Capitalist Society Peter Drucker describes how every few hundred years a sharp transformation has taken place and greatly affected society - its worldview, its basic values, its business and economics, and its social and political structure. According to Drucker, we are right in the middle of another time of radical change, from the Age of Capitalism and the Nation-State to a Knowledge Society and a Society of Organizations. The primary resource in the post-capitalist society will be knowledge and the leading social groups will be "knowledge workers." Looking backward and forward, Drucker discusses the Industrial Revolution, the Productivity Revolution, the Management Revolution, and the governance of corporations. He explains the new functions of organizations, the economics of knowledge, and productivity as a social and economic priority. He covers the transformation from Nation-State to Megastate, the new pluralism of political systems, and the needed government turnaround. Finally, Drucker details the knowledge issues and the role and use of knowledge in post-capitalist society. Divided into three parts - Society, Polity, and Knowledge - Post-Capitalist Society provides a searching look into the future as well as a vital analysis of the past, focusing on the challenges of the present transition period and how, if we can understand and respond to them, we can create a new future.

Post-Capitalist Society

Preface Acknowledgements Interview: Notes on the post-business society Economics - The futures already around us The poverty of economic theory The transnational economy From World trade to World investment The lessons of the U.S. export boom Low wages: no longer a competitive edge Europe in the 1990s: strategies for survival U.S.-Japan trade needs a reality check Japan's great postwar weapon Misinterpreting Japan and the Japanese Help Latin America and help ourselves Mexico's ace in the hole: The Maquiladora People - The new productivity challenge The mystique of the business leader Leadership: more doing than dash People, work, and the future of the city The rise and fall of the blue-collar worker On ending work rules and job descriptions Making managers of communist bureaucrats China's nightmare: No jobs for the millions Management - Tomorrow's managers: the major trends How to manage the boss What really ails the U.S. auto industry Manage by walking around - outside! Corporate culture: use it, don't lose it Permanent cost cutting: permanent policy What the nonprofits are teaching business Nonprofit governance: lessons for success The nonprofits' outreach revolution The organization - The governance of corporations Four marketing lessons for the future Tomorrow's company: dressed for success Company performance: five telltale tests R&D: the best is business-driven Sell the mailroom: unbundling in the '90s The ten rules of effective research The trend toward alliances for progress A crisis of capitalism: who's in charge? The emerging theory of manufacturing Afterword: The 1990s and beyond - The changing world economy The knowledge society Innovation and entrepreneurship Personal effectiveness Index.

Managing for the Future

Contents Introduction: The Age of Adaptation 1. Being in Business Trade and technology are fundamentally human. 2. Everyone a Middleman Why the new rules favor the small and connected. 3. "Have It Your Way" The customer is the common denominator. 4. What Am I Bid? A revolutionary economy demands radical pricing. 5. From Planning to Playing How agility and identity nurture innovation and trust. 6. Nobody's as Smart as Everybody Knowledge and self-organization flourish at the edge of chaos. 7. All Together Now How common purpose comes to life. 8. Money and Motivation Where people yearn to perform. 9. At Home in the Economy The reunion of family and work. 10. "All My Sons" Will business save society? Notes Annotated Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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Opportunities to flex your professionalism—Congress 2002

Leveraging the Purchasing Power of the Staff Nurse

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