The Essential Drucker - Hardcover

Drucker, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750650184 ISBN 13: 9780750650182

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

Peter Drucker's wide-ranging book, drawn from his best work, looks at management, the individual and society. He connects these themes of today's world with his usual clear-sighted and far-reaching style to create a work which encapsulates his essential and strongest writings IN ONE VOLUME.

Under the three headings, Drucker covers aspects such as what the non-profits are teaching business and the information that executives need today. In his section on the individual he gives advice on knowing your own strengths and values, your time and, intriguingly, the second half of your life. The third part on society encompasses the coming of the entrepreneurial society and citizenship through the social sector.

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Review:

Ever since his first book was published some six decades ago, Peter Drucker has been essential to everyone serious about the "management of an enterprise (and) the self-management of the individual". Now this distinguished 30-year Claremont University professor, who has continuously identified critical principles in management, economics, politics and the world in general--and then redirected our thinking about them through more than two dozen books, including an autobiography and a couple of works of fiction--has overseen the compilation of his most salient fundamentals into an indispensable introduction to the topic appropriately dubbed The Essential Drucker.

Reaching back as far as 1954 for his treatise on Management By Objectives and Self-Control ("Each manager, from the 'big boss' down to the production foreman or the chief clerk, needs clearly spelled-out objectives" that clarify expected contributions "to the attainment of company goals in all areas of the business"), Drucker's now-established ideas take on a surprising new relevancy when remixed with others considered equally pioneering when they were initially introduced in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. Between the thoughtful Management As Social and Liberal Art through the provocative From Analysis to Perception--The New Worldview (both originally published in 1988's The New Realities), this book revisits some of modern management's most inspired writing and presents it in a way that both newcomers to Drucker and those in need of a refresher course on his basic beliefs should find quite enjoyable and highly informative. --Howard Rothman

Review:

"...required reading for management students and practitioners alike ... a highly readable single volume survey of concepts that would otherwise involve reading nearly 30 separate books ...this is an extremely useful and thought-provoking compendium. Read 'The Essential Drucker' and become an instant expert on this most durable of management writers."
Alan Fowler - People Management, September 2001

"This is a book for everyone in management."
Sidney Callis, Business Executive

"This is effectively a whole business library and refresher MBA course in one readable volume that wears its enormous wisdom lightly enough to make good holiday reading. It is stuffed with practical & inspirational advice, as useful to owner-managers of small businesses as to blue-chip board directors or administrators of non-profitmaking organisations"
Carol Kennedy, Director

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0750650184
• ISBN 13: 9780750650182
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 362