Management Challenges for the 21st Century

Acknowledgments

This book grew out of a suggestion by my long-time American editor, Cass Canfield, Jr., of HarperCollins. It is, however, a very different book from the one Mr. Canfield and I originally envisaged. We thought of a book that would bring together in one volume the best from the management books I have written and published for more than fifty years—a kind of “Drucker Retrospective.” But as I began to work on the book Mr. Canfield suggested, it became increasingly clear to both of us that what was appropriate was not a book looking backward. It was one that looks AHEAD. As a result, this book contains NOTHING that is an excerpt from earlier management books of mine. It supplements them by LOOKING AHEAD. And all the time, while ...