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 Practice 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 management.

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 tomorrow will demand of them.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: The Origin and Purpose of The Essential Drucker

I: Management
1: Management as Social Function and Liberal Art
2: The Dimensions of Management
3: The Purpose and Objectives of a Business
4: What the Nonprofits Are Teaching Business
5: Social Impacts and Social Problems
6: Management’s New Paradigms
7: The Information Executives Need Today
8: Management by Objectives and Self-Control
9: Picking People - The Basic Rules
10: The Entrepreneurial Business
11: The New Venture
12: Entrepreneurial Strategies

II: The Individual
13: Effectiveness Must Be Learned
14: Focus on Contribution
15: Know Your Strengths and Values
16: Know Your Time
17: Effective Decisions
18: Functioning Communications
19: Leadership as Work
20: Principles of Innovation
21: The Second Half of Your Life
22: The Educated Person

III: Society
23: A Century of Social Transformation - Emergence of Knowledge Society
24: The Coming of Entrepreneurial Society
25: Citizenship through the Social Sector
26: From Analysis to Perception - The New Worldview

Afterword: The Challenge Ahead
Index