|  | Author: Peter F. Drucker
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 262564
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 500
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 5.6 x 1.5
ISBN: 0750665998
Dewey Decimal Number: 658
EAN: 9780750665995
ASIN: 0750665998
Publication Date: December 9, 2004
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Amazing September 23, 2008
Sally Pinchock (Plymouth, MI United States)
Peter Drucker continues to inspire posthumously.
Every day the insight from the reading helps me to assess my personal life and how it affects others.
Excellent book.
Lip Service or Daily Discipline? February 9, 2008
John W. Pearson (San Clemente, CA, USA)
Think about your daily physical exercise regimen. Now compare that to the mental exercise routine you use in your journey to become a life-long learner. Come up a little short? The Daily Drucker will help.
In my book, Mastering The Management Buckets: 20 Critical Competencies for Leading Your Business or Non-profit, "The Drucker Bucket" honors Peter Drucker, the father of modern management, who was welcomed to his heavenly home in 2005, just a few days shy of his 96th birthday. His seminal book, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, runs 839 pages. Here's the Drucker Bucket core competency:
"We are privileged to be leaders and managers and we steward that privilege by being lifelong learners and practitioners in the art of management. We don't just give lip service to management--we are disciplined students of great leadership and management thinkers like Peter Drucker, Ken Blanchard and others."
I encourage my clients to read at least one book by Peter Drucker every year. If you're in management, why would you not want to learn from the management guru? To dip your toe in the Drucker Bucket, read The Daily Drucker.
Bestselling author Bob Buford, who graciously wrote the foreword to my book, mentions Drucker in the foreword, "Peter always said, `The purpose of management is not to make the Church more businesslike, but more Church-like." Drucker was a gift to all of us. This is the perfect book.
The fountain of wisdom for a mature reader January 26, 2008
uniq (El Dorado Hills, CA United States)
I think one has to be mature enough to understand, at least on some level, and appreciate the wisdoms of Mr. Drucker collected in this compact and very intense book, but once you get them, you become a different person.
An excellent daily "devotional" for managers March 24, 2007
Nataly Kelly (Boston , MA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book offers excellent insight into Drucker's writings on business philosophy. For those who have never read Drucker at all, this book is a great starting point, as it encapsulates much of his writing into a single volume. The book is of particular value to anyone working in a service-related company, especially in a society where knowledge is one of the most powerful assets managers are required to protect and preserve.
An entry from January 7th reads: "Knowledge workers own the means of production...the organization needs them more than they need the organization..." The action point listed is, "Attract and retain the highest producing knowledge workers by treating them and their knowledge as the organization's most valuable assets."
The information provided in this book, when put into practice, will help any manager become more efficient and reflective about how her/his actions fit into the bigger picture. The foreword, by Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, is also very worth reading and gives a little-seen and inspirational glimpse of Drucker.
Great February 12, 2007
Kaushik Nagendran (KY USA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
The book was in good condition and was delivered on time. It is a great read!!
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