Cover of The Essential Drucker

The Essential Drucker

Father of modern management, social commentator, and preeminent business philosopher, Peter F. Drucker has been analyzing 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 the organization, the individual, and society, there is The Essential Drucker — an invaluable compilation of management essentials from the works of a management legend.

Read more

Containing twenty-six 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.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 368 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked The Essential Drucker? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked The Essential Drucker. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. What the CEO Wants You to Know: Using Business Acumen to Understand How Your Company Really Works Shares business, leadership, management
  2. The Partnership Charter: How To Start Out Right With Your New Business Partnership Shares business, personal mba, pmba
  3. Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business: 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning Shares business, personal mba, management
  4. Numbers Guide: The Essentials of Business Numeracy Shares business, personal mba, pmba

“People who read The Essential Drucker tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Re-Create Your Life
  2. Bankable Business Plans
  3. Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving
  4. Indispensable: How to Become the Company That Your Customers Can't Live Without

“If you want more of the same (business about work), start with these.”

  1. Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business
  2. Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less
  3. High Output Management
  4. Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness

“If it was the management that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
  2. The Real-Life MBA: Your No-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your Career
  3. Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
  4. Rework

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Business Environment
  2. Project Management: A Managerial Approach
  3. Marketing: An Introduction
  4. Understanding the Social Economy of the United States