文档介绍：WISDOM IN A NUTSHELL
PRESENTS
INSIDE THE GURU MIND SERIES
Peter Drucker
The Great Pioneer Of Management Theory
And Practice
By
Robert Heller
Published By Dorling Kindersley Ltd., London 2001
ISBN: 0789451581; 1st edition (April 1, 2000)
112 pages
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Peter Drucker
The Theory of a Business
Drucker believes that the theory of a business or the assumptions on which a
company has been built and is operating on depends on:
  Assumptions about the environment of anization
  Assumptions about the specific mission of anization
  Assumptions about the petencies needed to plish the
organization’s mission
As anization es bureaucratic and sluggish, it es extremely
difficult to change systems and mindsets when the assumptions are no longer
valid. This was the situation that General Motors found itself during the 1980’s. In
the following pages, Drucker teaches us how to maintain a valid theory of
business.
Organizing for ess in Business
Decentralized Structure
In 1946, Drucker wrote “Concept of the Corporation,” which explores the
evolution of the business corporation and its impact on society. The result of 18
months of interviews and observation, the book discusses the beliefs and
management style of Alfred P. Sloan, GM’s creator.
Drucker noted that GM gave its divisions great independence, which was
mon by the standards of the day. “In over 20 years of work…Mr. Alfred P.
Sloan Jr. has developed the concept of decentralization into a philosophy of
industrial management and into a system of local self-government.” GM had 50
divisions, and Drucker estimated that all