The document summarizes Peter F. Drucker's book "The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management". It was written by Peter F. Drucker himself and contains his key ideas on management over 60 years. Some of his main concepts discussed are that management is about enabling human performance and joint work through goals, values and structure, while leadership is doing the right things. Drucker also emphasized that organizations must focus on marketing and innovation to create customers, and executives must look outside the organization to understand true reality.

1. The book “The Essential Drucker:The Best of Sixty Years of Peter
Drucker'sEssential Writings on Management” was written by Peter F.
Drucker
Peter F Drucker is consideredthe father of modern management
The book “The Essential Drucker:The Best of Sixty Years of Peter
Drucker'sEssential Writings on Management” was written by Peter F.
Drucker himself
Here are few main ideas

2. “Managementis doing things right; leadershipis doing the right things.”
“Managementis about human beings. Its task is to make people capable
of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their
weaknesses irrelevant.”
“Every enterprise is a learningandteachinginstitution. Trainingand
development must be built into it on all levels—trainingand
development that never stop.”
“To be sure, the fundamental task of managementremains the same: to
make people capable of joint performance through common goals,
common values, the right structure, and the trainingand development
they need to perform and to respond to change.”
“Each member of the enterprise contributes something different, but
they must all contribute toward a common goal.”
“Executives of necessitylive and work within an organization. Unless they
make conscious efforts to perceive the outside, the inside may blind
them to the true reality.”
“Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has
two—and only these two—basic functions:marketing and innovation.”
Drucker's books and articles, both scholarly and popular, explored how humans are
organized across the business, government, and nonprofit sectors of society.He is one of the
best-known and most widely influential thinkers and writers on the subject of management
theory and practice. His writings have predicted many of the major developments of the late
twentieth century, including privatization and decentralization; the rise of Japan to economic
world power; the decisive importance of marketing; and the emergence of the information
society with its necessity of lifelong learning.In 1959, Drucker coined the term "knowledge
worker", and later in his life considered knowledge-worker productivity to be the next
frontier of management.
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