ABSTRACT

The book brings together this celebrated author's most useful ideas and insights on ways in which managers can better understand the new duties and responsibilities created by their constantly changing world. `a brilliant collection of forty of his articles, most of which were published originally in the Wall Street Journal....absorbing even to the non-specialist' Publishers Weekly The book brings together this celebrated author's most useful ideas and insights on ways in which managers can better understand the new duties and responsibilities created by their constantly changing world.

part |3 pages

PART I EXECUTIVE AGENDA

chapter 1|5 pages

Inflation-Proofing the Company

chapter 2|6 pages

A Scorecard for Management

chapter 3|5 pages

Helping Small Businesses Cope

chapter 4|6 pages

Is Executive Pay Excessive?

chapter 5|5 pages

On Mandatory Executive Retirement

chapter 6|5 pages

The Real Duties of a Director

chapter 7|5 pages

The Information Explosion

chapter 8|6 pages

Learning From Foreign Management

part |3 pages

PART II BUSINESS PERFORMANCE

chapter 9|5 pages

The Delusion of Profits

chapter 10|7 pages

Aftermath of a Go-Go Decade

chapter 11|7 pages

Managing Capital Productivity

chapter 12|6 pages

Six Durable Economic Myths

chapter 13|6 pages

Measuring Business Performance

chapter 14|6 pages

Why Consumers Aren't Behaving

chapter 15|5 pages

Good Growth and Bad Growth

chapter 16|5 pages

The "Re-Industrialization" of America

chapter 17|6 pages

The Danger of Excessive Labor Income

part |4 pages

PART III THE NON-PROFIT SECTOR

chapter 18|5 pages

Managing the Non-Profit Institution

chapter 19|6 pages

Managing the Knowledge Worker

chapter 20|4 pages

Meaningful Government Reorganization

chapter 21|5 pages

The Decline in Unionization

chapter 22|5 pages

The Future of Health Care

chapter 23|6 pages

The Professor as Featherbedder

chapter 24|5 pages

The Schools in 1990

part |4 pages

PART IV PEOPLE AT WORK

chapter 25|7 pages

Unmaking the Nineteenth Century

chapter 26|5 pages

Retirement Policy

chapter 27|4 pages

Report on the Class of '68

chapter 28|5 pages

Meaningful Unemployment Figures

chapter 29|4 pages

Baby-Boom Problems

chapter 30|6 pages

Planning for Redundant Workers

chapter 31|5 pages

The Job as Property Right

part |4 pages

PART V THE CHANGING GLOBE

chapter 32|6 pages

The Rise of Production Sharing

chapter 33|7 pages

Japan's Economic Policy Turn

chapter 34|4 pages

The Battle Over Co-Determination

chapter 35|5 pages

A Troubled Japanese Juggernaut

chapter 36|5 pages

India and Appropriate Technology

chapter 37|6 pages

Toward a New Form of Money?

chapter 38|5 pages

How Westernized Are the Japanese?

chapter 39|5 pages

Needed: A Full-Investment Budget

chapter 40|4 pages

A Return to Hard Choices