Peter Drucker’s class on effective decisions. During his lecture, he discusses: businesses and training programs; what the main purpose of your first job is; schools not being a place to learn about yourself; having to place yourself; the lack of correlation between performance in school, and performance in life; the hospital as the single largest employer over the last 20 years; the enormous proportion of opportunities for people entering the workforce before the baby boom generation; the high turnover in the fashion industry; the majority of people who work in medium sized companies; the downsizing of companies, and the illusion of security; the network as today’s security; the growth of the social sector; managing people as a byproduct of WWI; the parallel ladder of pay and recognition; domestic servants in Great Britain; defining population by socioeconomic class; the changes in the definition of a manager; structuring organizations around information; the law of information; the number of years it takes to become a master craftsman; the manipulation of exchange rates by governments; businesses not being able to maintain position for very long; 3 business novels by Charles Dickens; the Coca-Cola Company and market standing; the work of Charles Handy; joint ventures between pharmaceutical companies and universities; and the bypassing of the command and control society. The video ends with the lecture in progress.
Lectures and lecturing Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005 Decision making Business Occupations Employees - Training of Business enterprises Baby boom generation Job security Personnel management General Motors Corporation Artisans Microsoft Corporation Social networks Coca-Cola Company Handy, Charles B Joint ventures Pharmaceutical industry Colleges and universities
Source
Color videocassette: MGT 351: [Effective Decisions], [4/5/1996]; 4/3 & 4/10/96; Drucker Archives; 3/4 inch VHS cassette
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