02301cam a22003618i 4500 486834 486834 19344879 US-DLC 20171016072540.0 161017s2017 mau 000 0 eng c 2016041615 9781633692527 (pbk.) MH/DLC eng MH rda pcc Alfaisal Main Library HD58.7 D775 2017 Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005, author. The theory of the business / Peter F. Drucker. 2017 1705 Boston, Massachusetts : Harvard Business Review Press, [2017] 53 pages cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Harvard business review classics "Originally published in Harvard Business Review in June 2004 "--Title page verso. Peter F. Drucker argues that what underlies the current malaise of so many large and successful organizations worldwide is that their theory of the business no longer works. The story is a familiar one: a company that was a superstar only yesterday finds itself stagnating and frustrated, in trouble and, often, in a seemingly unmanageable crisis. The root cause of nearly every one of these crises is not that things are being done poorly. It is not even that the wrong things are being done. Indeed, in most cases, the right things are being done--but fruitlessly. What accounts for this apparent paradox? The assumptions on which the organization has been built and is being run no longer fit reality. These are the assumptions that shape any organization's behavior, dictate its decisions about what to do and what not to do, and define what an organization considers meaningful results. These assumptions are what Drucker calls a company's theory of the business.-- Corporate culture. Strategic planning. local 4 Print books. Harvard business review classics. lcc BOOKS 0 0 lcc 0 0 AU AU GEN 2017-10-16 0 HD58.7 D775 2017 AU00000000010407 2017-10-16 00:00:00 75.00 2017-10-16 BOOKS