The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management (Collins Business Essentials)

The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management (Collins Business Essentials) Review

Too often people ask "what's new" rather than "what's working." That's why so many organizations have 'fad-surfed' from one popular wave to another while wasting time and money. And in the process, they have "Dilbertized" their workplaces with a "high snicker factor" of cynicism and resistance to management's next change program. Research continues to show that one half to two-thirds of initiatives like e-whatever (commerce, government, business, etc.), technologies like CRM or ERP, service improvement, Six Sigma, supply-chain management and such, are failing or have seriously missed their original targets.

That's why I continue to write and speak about "timeless leadership principles" such as in The Leader's Digest: Timeless Principles for Team and Organization Success. We can repackage and rename leadership or management programs and initiatives. But inevitably we rediscover underlying themes and approaches that are the enduring keys to success. That's also a big reason I have been a Peter Drucker fan since I first began my management and training career in the mid-seventies. For over 65 years (!), Peter Drucker cut through the rhetoric and complex formulas to define the core essence of successful management and leadership. The Essential Drucker is a selection of twenty-six of his writings on management/leadership, personal effectiveness, and society. While I think the editors missed a few essential pieces of his, most of the ones they selected represent his timeless wisdom.

Here are a few passages that highlight critical truths we need to constantly work at applying to leading ourselves and others:

Success always makes obsolete the very behavior that achieved it. It always creates new realities. It always creates, above all, its own and different problems. Only the fairy tale ends, "they lived happily ever after."

All businesses have access to pretty much the same resources. Except for the rare monopoly situation, the only thing that differentiates one business from another in any given field is the quality of its management on all levels.

One does not "manage people." The task is to lead people. And the goal is to make productive the specific strengths and knowledge of each individual.

The starting point has to be what customers consider value.

In an organization that manages by drives (programs), people either neglect their job to get on with the current drive, or silently organize for collective sabotage of the drive to get their work done.

Making the right people decisions is the ultimate means of controlling an organization well.

A well managed organization is a "dull" organization. The "dramatic" things in such an organization are basic decisions that make the future, rather than heroics in mopping up yesterday's mistakes.

The final requirement of effective leadership is to earn trust.

The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management (Collins Business Essentials) Feature

• The Essential Drucker
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The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management (Collins Business Essentials) Overview

Father of modern management, social commentator, and preeminent business philosopher, Peter F. Drucker analyzed economics and society for more than sixty years. Now for readers everywhere who are concerned with the ways that management practices and principles affect the performance of organizations, individuals, and society, there is The Essential Drucker—an invaluable compilation of essential materials from the works of a management legend.

Containing twenty-six core selections, The Essential Drucker 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.

The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management (Collins Business Essentials) Specifications

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"), Drucker's 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 1988's The New Realities), this book revisits some of modern management's most inspired writing and presents it in a way that should appeal to both newcomers and those needing a refresher course on Drucker's basic beliefs. --Howard Rothman

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