A class with Drucker : the lost lessons of the world's greatest management teacher /: the lost lessons of the world's greatest management teacher. ([2008])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By William A. Cohen.
• Other Names: Cohen, William A, 1937-; Drucker, Peter F (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005
• Contents: How I became the student of the father of modern management -- Drucker in the classroom -- What everybody knows is frequently wrong -- Self-confidence must be built step-by-step -- If you keep doing what worked in the past you're going to fail -- Approach problems with your ignorance -- not your experience -- Develop expertise outside your field to be an effective manager -- Outstanding performance is inconsistent with fear of failure -- The objective of marketing is to make selling unnecessary -- Ethics, honor, integrity and the law -- You can't predict the future, but you can create it -- We're all accountable -- You must know your people to lead them -- People have no limits, even after failure -- A model organization that Drucker greatly admired -- The management control panel -- Base your strategy on the situation, not on a formula -- How to motivate the knowledge worker -- Drucker's principles of self-development.
• Publisher Details: New York : AMACOM/ American Management Association
• Publication Date: 2008
• Copyright Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages)
• Subjects: 658; Management; Executives -- Training of; Executives -- Training of; Management
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780814409541; 0814409547
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-252) and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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