Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New Post Modern World

by Peter Drucker

Overview

Landmarks of Tomorrow forecasts changes in three major areas of human life and experience. The first part of the book treats the philosophical shift from a Cartesian universe of mechanical cause to a new universe of pattern, purpose, and process. Drucker discusses the power to organize men of knowledge and high skill for joint effort and performance as a key component of this change. The second part of the book sketches four realities that challenge the people of the free world: an educated society, economic development, the decline of government, and the collapse of Eastern culture. The final section of the book is concerned with the spiritual reality of human existence. These are seen as basic elements in late twentieth-century society.

In his new introduction, Peter Drucker revisits the main findings of Landmarks of Tomorrow and assesses their validity in relation to today's concerns. It is a book that will be of interest to sociologists, economists, and political theorists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781560006220
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	05/31/1996
Pages:	290
Sales rank:	857,211
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005) is known by many as the father of modern management. He was Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at Claremont Graduate School in California and was a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He is the author of over thirty-five books, including The Ecological Vision, The Concept of the Corporation, and A Functioning Society. Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005) is known by many as the father of modern management. He was Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at Claremont Graduate School in California and was a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He is the author of over thirty-five books, including The Ecological Vision, The Concept of the Corporation, and A Functioning Society.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the 1996 Edition

Introduction: This Post-Modem World

Part 1: The New World-View

Part 2: From Progress to Innovation

1. The New Perception of Order

2. The Power of Innovation

3. Innovation-The New Conservatism?

Part 3: Beyond Collectivism and Individualism

4. The New Organization

5. From Magnate to Manager

6. Beyond Collectivism and Individualism

Part 4: The New Frontiers

Part 5: The Educated Society

7. The Educational Revolution

8. Society's Capital Investment

9. Education for What?

Part 6: "Up to Poverty"

10. The Frontier of Development

11. Building an Industrial Society

Part 7 : Modem Government in Extremis

12. The End of the Liberal State

13. The New Pluralism

Part 8: The Vanishing East

Part 9: The Work to Be Done

Part 10: The Human Situation Today

Editorial Reviews

"The reader will find [Drucker's] description of the economic analysis of growth currently confined largely to technical journals and monographs particularly lucid and his observations on the present-day ineffectualness of political thinking are harsh but just . . . a wise and challenging but never an alarming book." —Louis M. Hacker, The New York Times Book Review "Drucker is a brilliant and provocative thinker one who refuses to be bound by standard assumptions, and sheds light . . . on many major issues. His writing is salted with wit and pervaded with a basic morality." —Leo Teplow, Management Review

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