The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management
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In one volume a selection of the essential writings from Peter F. Drucker's sixty years of work on management.
The first selection of Drucker's management work from The Practice of Management (1954) to Management Challenges for the 21st Century (1999), this book offers, in Drucker's words, a coherent and fairly comprehensive Introduction to management and] gives an overview of my works on management and thus answers a question I have been asked again and again: which of my writings are essential?
The Essential Drucker contains twenty-six selections on management in the organization, management and the individual, and management and society. It covers the basic principles and concerns of management and its problems, challenges, and opportunities, giving managers, executives, and professionals the tools to perform the tasks that the economy and society of tomorrow will demand of them.
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Rated 5 starsLead, at least Your Own Life
" No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it. " - Andrew Carnegie / " But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. " - Ernest Hemingway / " Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. " - Peter Drucker … As each individual is to lead, at least his/her own life, he/she needs to keep these mottoes in mind and...
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Rated 5 starsGrandfather of management science for today
For a long time I had been intending to read something of Drucker. He is, after all, the grandfather of management science. But I kept putting it off, for I am a busy executive and need answers to my current management problems. The old man, I thought, would have less to tell me then, say, Roberts in "The Modern Firm" (which is an excellent book) or some of my internal reports. "The Essential Drucker" it seemed, would be...
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Rated 5 starsAn excellent compilation of Drucker's best works. A must read for every manager.
The late Peter F. Drucker invented the discipline that we know as Management. This book is an excellent compilation of his best works, written over six decades and published in journals, magazines and over 30 books. I am amazed at the breadth and depth of this compilation. It includes several topics (categorized in sections for Management, The Individual and Society). In the first few chapters Drucker defines management through...
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Rated 5 starsThe "Essentials" (Thus Far)
It is worth noting that the selections in this volume were made by Drucker himself from books and articles written during a 60-year career, one which continues in his 93rd year. According to Drucker, this volume has two purposes: "First, it offers, I hope, a coherent and fairly comprehensive Introduction to Management. But second, it gives an Overview of my works on management and thus answers a question that my editors and...
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Rated 5 starsSummary of Peter Drucker's For-Profit Management Advice
Before going further, let me note that this book is mislabeled. The excerpts in this book are from only ten of Professor Drucker's more than 30 management books. Although there is some reference to nonprofit management (where he spent half of his time), this volume does not encapsulate all of his ideas in that sphere. Many of his early ideas about society are also missing.As great as his ideas about management are, his...
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