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As IF I actually read this. Last week of grad school classes. :throws hands up: I skimmed enough to write my paper. #senioritis
I will recommend my class to read this book
It's really a great book.
Peter Drucker's books, are earlier works, in the theory of business management. They are dated, in some sense, but the lessons taught have an eternal quality to them; many of the essentials have not changed. Recommended.
So everything people write about manangement was already known 50 years ago. That speaks both for Drucker and against decades of research on the matter. Read this if you're doing something that has remotely to do with management.
That's such a very good book about the management in any size of organization. Thanks so much Peter for your extreme contributions.
Most books on management are dull, repetitive, unoriginal, and full of self-promotion. Drucker's book is the original. This is the book to read if you want to learn about management, how it impacts people, how to do it better, and how it can go disastrously wrong.
While the specific examples are sometimes quaintly outdated, the general themes are still relevant.And what would Drucker, supporter of writing and oration college courses, say about business school requirements today?
To some extent a product of its time with the emphasis on the scientific management styles dominant in post-war America, but also directly applicable to management today, as Drucker highlights again and again how central human character is and how little that has changed since time began. It was good to see the development and original context of his seminal “management by objectives” theory but I also really appreciated the closing chapters on the challenges and opportunities of the future.The
I don't like his writing style but found his theories still pretty relevant today.
Upon final consideration I have decided I will be unfair to this book. It's important to note if you're being unfair and in my position I felt the best review I could leave for this book would be so. Let me tell you why it's going to be unfair. Because my review is going to be written today, here and now, in the 21st century. Because it has to be. There is no way I can go back to the days of 1954 and give this book the review it earned. So here's my review: this book isn't very good.It's general...
This book was written 60 years ago and it feels like most of the Drucker's thoughts are still of the moment. Whats more, in many modern books about management you can notice that authors "discover america" again. For some insights it took decades until they were proved empirically and described wider therefore more commonly used. An example here can be "focusing on strengths and managing weaknesses" which is the key point in "First, break all the rules" book that is based on Gallup research of t...
This book is worth it’s own weight in melotonin. If you want to be asleep within a few pages, this is the book for you. It’s a slow and laborious read, and its treatment of the role of women in the corporate world reflects the fact that it was written a loooong time ago. That said, the basic concepts in the book still hold fast and I’d consider it essential reading for anyone contemplating a management role in a large organisation. It certainly taught me a lot about how management roles at diffe...
At the onset, I take his opportunity to mention that Drucker is, by far my favourite management writer and guru of all times and this book has been an excellent read. The reason is simple: he is direct, incisive in analysis and writes with unparalleled clarity. His erudition is observable in simplicity as opposed to complexity, a feat that his contemporaries will find difficult to achieve (I mention this because I am reading him after Barnard and Simon, both stalwarts of management, but none the...
One book that has been what you call as Original. A classic work, to be read by every management student, staff and almost any one in the corporate world. It is interesting that really nothing new has been added to management theory - is what I felt onreading this book first published in 1954.
Other than a very male view of the organization this analysis remains timeless. Peter Drucker gave his entire life and cognitive skill to unfolding an understanding and sharing the practices of management.
Yes, yes, Drucker is brilliant and a management classic, but this book was drier than a sawdust sandwich and made me want to clean out my refrigerator in procrastination.
TL;DR; Good book, I will read the unabridged version at some point.I bought this audiobook when I first subscribed to Audible back in 2001 but for some reason, I never listened to it. I’ve been going through my library in order to get to those books that I have forgotten about, and since I was looking for a quick read, I thought this would be a good one to pick up today.This audiobook feels like a series of bullet points on a PowerPoint, but I found most of the things he said to be kind of impor...
Great
Much of this book was way over my head. But a few sections were astoundingly pertinent and helpful.
