Classic Advice for Today's Management Challenges
Peter F. Drucker's timeless thinking on management--distilled in this
series of concise essays--examines the basic questions and issues that
managers face. In rapidly changing times, Drucker's legendary wisdom is
even more vitally relevant, going beyond traditional thinking to
insights of enduring value.
The ideas and themes of this easy-to-read guide are based on direct
experience and knowledge from Drucker's years as adviser to large
corporations, entrepreneurial start-ups, government and nonprofit
agencies, and public institutions. They are eminently practical and
resonate profoundly with the challenges managers face today. Drucker
offers insight and advice on perennial management issues such as:
- people decisions
- resource allocation
- productivity challenges
- innovation and risk management
- and other essential management topics
Filled with classic, evergreen advice--There is only one valid
definition of business purpose: to create a customer--Peter F. Drucker
on Management Essentials is widely regarded as the gold standard for
managers.
Notable Quotes from Peter F. Drucker:
- Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right
things.
- The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed nothing else
can be managed.
- There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not
be done at all.
- Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous
decision.
- Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or
it vanishes.
- The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and
exploits it as an opportunity.
