The Essential Drucker: The Best of
Sixty Years of Peter Druckers
Essential Writings on Management
(Collins Business Essentials) by
Peter F. Drucker
Drucker Is A Legend Who Provides Historical Insights To Major Management Issues
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, whether
executive or professional, within an enterprise and altogether in our
society of managed organizations. This distinguished 30-year Claremont
University professor has continuously identified critical principles in
management, economics, politics, and the world in general. And he has
redirected our thinking about them through more than two dozen books,
including an autobiography and a couple of works of fiction. Now, with The

Essential Drucker, he has overseen the compilation of his most important
fundamentals into one indispensable book. Reaching back as far as
1954 with his treatise 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), Druckers now-established ideas take on a surprising new
relevancy when remixed equally pioneering ideas from the 1960s, 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 1988s The New Realities), this
book revisits some of modern managements most inspired writing and
presents it in a way that should appeal to both newcomers and those
needing a refresher course on Druckers basic beliefs. --Howard Rothman
Personal Review: The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty
Years of Peter Druckers Essential Writings on Management
(Collins Business Essentials) by Peter F. Drucker
Peter F. Drucker is a genuine management guru. He provides a unique
historical perspective(across centuries!) to management issues and
thereby provides uniques insights. My favourite is his assertion that there
is no "right" or "wrong" organisation structure --only one that is fit for the
objective or corporate task at hand.
On a couple of occasions, he showed lack of "cultural sensitivity" by
seeming to condem an entire cultural group, but i excused him on the
grounds that he's from a different generation.
Overall,he works will greatly benefit humanity by enabling people make the
right "global" decisions and understand the complexities of modern
business and commerce.
I highly recommend this book to anyone aspiring to become a CEO!!! It will
cut down your years of reseach by decades.
Jim, 5th Aug 2008
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