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Preface : The Future Is Being Shaped Today
Interview : A Talk with a Wide-Ranging Mind
PART I. ECONOMICS
Chapter 1 : The Changed World Economy
Chapter 2 : America’s Entrepreneurial Job Machine
Chapter 3 : Why OPEC Had to Fail
Chapter 4 : The Changing Multinational
Chapter 5 : Managing Currency Exposure
Chapter 6 : Export Markets and Domestic Policies
Chapter 7 : Europe’s High-Tech Ambitions
Chapter 8 : What We Can Learn from the Germans
Chapter 9 : On Entering the Japanese Market
Chapter 10 : Trade with Japan: The Way It Works
Chapter 11 : The Perils of Adversarial Trade
Chapter 12 : Modern Prophets: Schumpeter or Keynes?
PART II PEOPLE
Chapter 13 : Picking People : The Basic Rules
Chapter 14 : Measuring White-Collar Productivity
Chapter 15 : Twilight of the First-Line Supervisor ?
Chapter 16 : Overpaid Executives: The Greed Effect
Chapter 17 : Overage Executives: Keeping Firms Young
Chapter 18 : Paying the Professional Schools
Chapter 19 : Jobs and People: The Growing Mismatch
Chapter 20 : Quality Education : The New Growth Area
PART III MANAGEMENT
Chapter 21 : Management :The Problems of Success
Chapter 22 : Getting Control of Staff Work
Chapter 23 : Slimming Management’s Midriff
Chapter 24 : The Information-Based Organization
Chapter 25 : Are Labour Unions Becoming Irrelevent?
Chapter 26 : Union Flexibility: Why It’s Now a Must
Chapter 27 : Management as a Liberal Art
PART IV THE ORGAMIZATION
Chapter 28 : The Hostile Takeover and Its Discontents
Chapter 29 : The Five Rules of Successful Acquisitions
Chapter 30 : The Innovative Organization
Chapter 31 : The No-Growth Enterprise
Chapter 32 : Why Automation Pays Off
Chapter 33 : IBM’s Watson: Vision for Tomorrow
Chapter 34 : The Lessons of the Bell Breakup
Chapter 35 : Social Needs and Business Opportunities
Afterword : Social Innovation-Management’s New Dimension
Acknowledgements
Index
