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iiManagement Challenges for the 21st Century PETER F. DRUCKER Contents Introduction: Tomorrow’s â€Å"Hot† Issues 1 Management’s New Paradigms 2 Strategy—The New Certainties 3 The Change Leader 4 Information Challenges 5 Knowledge-Worker Productivity 6 Managing Oneself Acknowledgments About the Author Books By Peter F. Drucker Credits Front Cover Copyright About the Publisher iii Introduction: Tomorrow’s â€Å"Hot† Issues Where, readers may ask, is the discussion of COMPETITIVE STRATEGY, of LEADERSHIP, of CREATIVITY, of TEAMWORK, of TECHNOLOGY in a book on MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES? Where are the â€Å"HOT† ISSUES OF TODAY? But this is the very reason why they are not in this book. It deals exclusively with TOMORROW’S â€Å"Hot† Issues—the†¦show more content†¦A great many of these organizations will, of course, be businesses. And a great many of the individual knowledge workers affected by these challenges will be employees of business or working with business. Yet this is a MANAGEMENT book rather than a BUSINESS management book. The challenges it presents affect ALL organizations of today’s society. In fact, some of them will affect nonbusinesses even more, if only because a good many nonbusiness organizations—the university, for instance, or the hospital, let alone the government agency—are more rigid and less flexible than businesses are, and f ar more deeply rooted in the concepts, the assumptions, the policies of yesterday or even, as are universities, in the assumptions of the day before yesterday (i.e., of the 19th century). How to use the book? I suggest you read a chapter at a time— they are long chapters. And then first ask: â€Å"What do these issues, these challenges MEAN for our organization and for me as a knowledge worker, a professional, an executive?† Once you have thought this through, ask: â€Å"What ACTION should our organization and I, the individual knowledge worker and/or executive, take to make the challenges of this chapter into OPPORTUNITIES for our organization and me?† AND THEN GO TO WORK! Peter F Drucker Claremont,Show MoreRelatedA Historical Analysis Of The Immigration Policy3994 Words   |  16 Pages(USCIS, 2015). This legislation also allowed agricultural workers to come to the U.S. from North, South and Central America through what was called the Bracero Program, which c reated a federal government measure to help meet war-related economic challenges with cheap Mexican labor (FAIR, 2008). After World War II, the immigration quotas posed problems for refugees. The Displaced Persons Act of 1948 and the Refugee Relief Act of 1953 extended quotas to allow war refugees asylum. Refugee legislation