Measuring White-Collar Productivity Peter Druker (1984) In the United States, white-collar workers now substantially outnumber blue-collar workers, and they absorb an even larger share of the total wage bill. for almost two-thirds of total hospital costs. Even in traditional blue-collar indurstries, the total wage bill for white-collar workers is by now almost equal to that of the blue-collar forc...

America's Entrepreneurial Job Machine Peter Druker (1984) "where have all jobs gone?" has been the constant question in all industrial Wesern countries these past few years. But for the United States, another question is : Where have all the jobs come from? All developed industrial countries are losing jobs in the smokestack industries--even Japan. But only the U.S. economy is creating n...

Picking People:The Basic Rules Peter Druker 1985 Executives spend more time on managing people and making people decisions than on anything else.and they should. No other decisions are so long lasting in their consequences or so difficult to unmake. And yet, by and large, executives make poor promotion and staffing decisions. By all accounts, their batting average is no better than .333: at most o...

Selected Essays of Peter Drucker chapter 5 Modrn Prophets: Schumpeter or Keynes ? The two greatest econoists of this century:Joseph A Schumpeter(1883-1950,was born in Austria)  and John Maynard Keynes(1883-1946,was born in England).And yet it is becoming increasingly clear that it is Schumpeter who will shape the thinking and inform the questions on economic thoery and economic poli...