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

Peter F. Drucker is the Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at the Claremont Graduate School. Widely regarded as America's leading expert on modern organizations and their management, Dr. Drucker has published 28 books which have been translated into more than 20 languages.

'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 Prctice 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 [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 ,==otherwise ungrammatical== tomorrow will demand of them.

Introduction: The Origin and Purpose of The Essential Drucker     vii
Management
Management as Social Function and Liberal Art     3
The Dimensions of Management     14
The Purpose and Objectives of a Business     18
What the Nonprofits Are Teaching Business     39
Social Impacts and Social Problems     51
Management's New Paradigms     69
The Information Executives Need Today     95
Management by Objectives and Self-Control     112
Picking People-The Basic Rules     127
The Entrepreneurial Business     136
The New Venture     144
Entrepreneurial Strategies     161
The Individual
Effectiveness Must Be Learned     191
Focus on Contribution     207
Know Your Strengths and Values     217
Know Your Time     225
Effective Decisions     241
Functioning Communications     261
Leadership as Work     268
Principles of Innovation     272
The Second Half of Your Life     280
The Educated Person     287
Society
A Century of Social Transformation-Emergence of Knowledge Society     299
The Coming of Entrepreneurial Society     321
Citizenship through the Social Sector     329
From Analysis to Perception-The New Worldview     337
Afterword: The Challenge Ahead     347
Index     350