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Practice of Management, The Paperback – April 16, 1993

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The first book to depict management as a distinct function and to recognize managing as a separate responsibility, this classic work by Peter Drucker is the fundamental and basic book for understanding these ideas.

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416 pages
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HarperPB
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April 16, 1993
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5.11 x 1.11 x 8.11 inches
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0887306136
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978-0887306136
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"Our debt to Peter Drucker knows no limit." -- -- Tom Peters

"The dean of this country's business and management philosophers." -- -- Wall Street Journal

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Peter F. Drucker is considered the most influential management thinker ever. The author of more than twenty-five books, his ideas have had an enormous impact on shaping the modern corporation. Drucker passed away in 2005.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperPB (April 16, 1993)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0887306136
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0887306136
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.11 x 1.11 x 8.11 inches

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Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005) was considered the top management thinker of his time. He authored over 25 books, with his first, The End of Economic Man published in 1939. His ideas have had an enormous impact on shaping the modern corporation. One of his most famous disciples alive today is Jack Welch. He was a teacher, philosopher, reporter and consultant.

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MOE TODD

Very informative!

Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2022

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This book was needed for a management class.

Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2021

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Si quieres estudiar un MBA para aprender lo necesario para ser gerente. recomiendo que ahorres miles de dólares y leas este libro. Transformará la forma de como ves el negocio de forma integral. Altamente recomendado para un futuro (o presente) Gerente General!

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Laura Villasana

Management Peter Drucker

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2022

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Peter Drucker is a master in explaining how organizations work, this book is one of the collection that we should all have.

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Demid V. Fedorov

Drucker is without peer

Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2014

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Drucker is without peer. This is just a must-read for anyone involved in managing businesses, or anyone who wants to understand how business run vs. how they should run.

Drucker's key differentiators are (1) that that he goes 1 or 2 levels deeper than anyone else and (2) that he presents a system that looks at entire businesses holistically, not just individual parts, as most other books do. Of these, (1) is most important, because you won't find a better analysis of the really deep questions (what is the real purpose of a business enterprise? why does society bestow upon businesses the power and resources that it gives them? what are the things to be mindful of in forward planning?)

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Wisdom_child

great work by Drucker

Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2013

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This book breaks down many facets of management and adds clarification to the many roles involved in management. It spells out a logical approach to decision making. It explains the importance of technology in the organization. It helps open your mind in thinking critically and systematically as a manager. It breaks down to a degree how to work with and engage the professional employee who are widely found in many sectors of the workforce. Great book to use as an assessment tool in gauging your management skills.

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Rob Kirk

Timeless classic, you couldn't tell when it was written

Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2010

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After finishing this Peter Drucker book, I felt like this should be required reading for all new managers and those that ever dream of doing this type of work. I've been managing over 11 years now and this book has tremendous value for most. I enjoyed the first and last third of the book the most and the wisdom that comes from Peter Drucker is amazing. If there is one group that might not benefit from this it would be self employed people. It does seem to be centered on the corporation and specifically the larger corporation.

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Mark

Exactly what I wanted

Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2022

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Great Read Not Just For Business Majors

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2015

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I first got this book for a business management class I was taking as a requirement for transferring over to another college and thought it was going to be pretty boring. Maybe it was the combination of the writing and my professor, but I actually REALLY enjoyed this book and it came in excellent condition when I bought it. Even if you're not majoring in business or don't ever intend to be in management of some kind in a corporate setting, this is still a great read on people in general.

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Adam S Khan

A dent in the universe

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 7, 2016

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Talk about a dent in the universe! This classy Cold War tome cuts it open to demand space for a new thing: management. The universe complied.

It used to be that a book, to be worthy of the name, would claim supreme significance. Perhaps this disappeared with the Vietnam War, where the supreme society, the USA, began to harbor deep self-doubt. The Practice of Management, a classic by Peter F. Drucker, is from an earlier age: 1954. As such it's peppered with references to the enemy, to Soviet Russia and Communism with a capital C. The practice of management, the book’s title, is therefore no less about business than saving civilization, enabling victory in the Cold War. And given that at least one reason for the USSR’s implosion is that it couldn’t compete economically, perhaps that indeed is what happened?

Sixty years on this newfangled thing, management, feels as much part of the landscape as say the fire engine. Drucker suggests it's a profoundly Western practice in that its job is to question things, to be a systematic introspection into what the business is and should be. It’s also liberal in that it grows out of the idea that economic change can help social and even geopolitical change. He attempts to limit its scope to business rather than every field of endeavor, but I think over time that distinction has not held up; management is required regardless of whether profits are. (Nor it seems is the idea that it's a Western thing, given the later dominance of the Japanese in the field.)

The author's confidence and authority is so supreme that it's sufficient to allow for humility. We are way beyond believing that the author knows whereof he speaks at least as much as anyone else in the world. There are also real insights—the type you think are obvious but you never thought of until now. That management is about looking up, not down. That staffs are a bad idea. Of the proper purview of business in society. Insights are taken from existing organizations where they succeed, from the Jesuits to the Soviets. Drucker focuses on the fundamental significance of planning, how indeed planning is in essence the job: setting what to do.

There are great examples of companies that arrived at managerial insights and redirected the company accordingly. ATT: They must serve everyone, even the unprofitable thinly-populated areas, or the government will cease tolerating their monopoly. Sears: Their customers in the future are not going to be the current but waning isolated midwestern farmers who ordered by catalog, but the future suburbanites who will drive to a big store.

So it’s bracing stuff and supported by the content and style of the book, infused with confidence borne of expertise borne of experience, and with moral purpose. It has a stylistic edge, a swipe sometimes of causticness. Along with its scope and ambition, its style makes it feel like that rare thing: not a genre one but a real book.

Shishir Kaul

The book has the feel of 1980's. Texture of pages is too good.

Reviewed in India on August 19, 2020

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Hi,

The book is just good. Very nice. Good texture of pages. Complete syllabus and great condition. New and well maintained.

Just the problem is that, a slip on the back of the book says that it's for 499 INR. I had paid 990 for this book. Can you throw some light on why this is happening ?

Regards,
SK

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ujjwal banerjee

Gives you basic understanding of management thoughts and its' evolution ...

Reviewed in India on March 2, 2017

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Gives you basic understanding of management thoughts and its' evolution in last century. Bit theoretical in nature and cases are also from pre- IT revolution era so may be bit irrelevant.

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Blackadder

Insightful and good and easy read.

Reviewed in Japan on February 5, 2010

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Though this is a Peter Drucker's classical work, it is insightful and at the same time easy and good read.
I just started to read it but the example of Sears and Robuck tells me a lot.

If you read his books and the books by Konosuke Matsushita, Panasonic founder, it can be said you know everything how the business should be managed and for what purpose.

Peter's stance of writing seems to me that he had been aware of the evils of the stock market and other financial scheme. The most important thing is each business enterprise endeavouring for innovation for betterment of societies.

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Stefan Roock

Auch 60 Jahre nach Erscheinen noch aktuell

Reviewed in Germany on October 31, 2016

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Nach wie vor eines der besten Bücher über Management und nach wie vor setzen Unternehmen den Großteil davon nicht um. Und es ist ernüchternd, wie wenig wirklich Neues in den letzten 60 Jahren zu dem Thema geschrieben wurde.

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