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The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done (精装)
by Peter F. Drucker
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Sean Gallagher (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-25 00:00>
Peter Drucker is one of the most brilliant, productive, and useful management thinkers, ever. How can you tap into his knowledge? The answer is The Daily Drucker - a distillation of his most useful ideas, insights, and motivation for getting the right things done in any organization. It is an easy, pleasant, and inspiring read. Who should read it? Anyone involved in an organized activity to achieve some goal (i.e. people in businesses, churches, schools, government, the military, etc.). Why read it? Knowledge is lost and skills decay over time unless renewed. The Daily Drucker will help you renew your knowledge and gain insights completely new to you. Get it!
REVIEW: Since Peter Drucker published his first book in 1939 (The End of Economic Man), there have been what seems to be a thousand management gurus and practitioners whose shooting stars have briefly illuminated the evening sky. Very, very few have stood the test of time with regards to the real-world usefulness of their ideas. In fact, it is virtually only Drucker and his ideas (perhaps better described as his observations) that are left standing after the others have been tried and discarded. He is not perfect, but he is correct far more often than he is wrong.
The question is - how can you tap into his knowledge to inspire you and help you lead/manage your organization and self better?
The answer is The Daily Drucker. It is a distillation of his most useful ideas, insights, and motivation for getting the right things done in any organization.
The Daily Drucker has one page for each day of the year that contains two or three paragraphs that crisply describe a topic (for example "Managing Oneself" or "Integrity in Leadership"), a Drucker Proverb ("Knowledge workers must take responsibility for managing themselves" and "The spirit of an organization is created from the top"), and an Action Point. The Action Point is a suggestion for putting Drucker's insight into action.
It is an easy, pleasant, and inspiring read. I read one page when I get into the office each morning. Sometimes it is just a reminder for me of a concept I already knew (but forgotten), sometimes I change my approach to my work based on the new perspective I gain. It is never boring.
Who should read it? Anyone involved in an organized activity to achieve some goal. That is, people in businesses, churches, schools, government, the military, etc.
Why read it? Knowledge is lost and skills decay over time unless renewed. The Daily Drucker will help you renew your knowledge and gain insights completely new to you. Reading the Daily Drucker is like opening the window in a stuffy office and letting a fresh breeze blow in. You think more clearly, feel better, and you are more effective.
No need to wait until the beginning of the year to get this book. Just open it to whatever date you first open the book and start there. You can read the insights that appear on January 1st when you get through December 31st! |
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Avinash Sharma (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-25 00:00>
While The Essential Drucker is a great compilation of Drucker's work and is essential reading for anybody interested in management, this book (The Daily Drucker) could be thought of as the essence of Drucker's wisdom or Drucker's greatest hits condensed. The late Peter F. Drucker invented the discipline that we know as Management. He is the undisputed Father of Modern Management and regarded by many to be the Preeminent Business Philosopher. This book is an excellent summary of his teachings, written over six decades and published in journals, magazines and over 30 books. I am amazed at the breadth and depth of this book. Drucker has written on almost every subject related to management and this book covers a lot of his writings.
However, I do not recommend this book as a shortcut to Drucker or as your first book written by him. To internalize (study in detail and make part of your thinking) his work you would have to read a minimum of five of his masterpieces. I would recommend The Essential Drucker or The Effective Executive as your first book instead of this one. This book should be used as a summary that you read from time to time, to refresh your knowledge and to keep you thinking. As said Drucker, "Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes."
Imagine Drucker's wisdom as coffee beans. You need to process (read and analyze) his work to brew your own coffee. The editors of this book have read through all of his work and presented to the world the essence of his wisdom in 366 espresso shots.
As with every Drucker book, there is wisdom on every page. You will be forced to think. I also enjoy the action points at the end of each page. I will not give you excerpts of this book. Instead I recommend you scroll to the top of the page and select "Search inside this book" located under the image of the cover, followed by "Excerpt" and "Surprise Me".
I own this book in Digital Download (Adobe Reader) format. I recommend it highly. When I wish to take a break when I'm on my laptop, I open this e-book and read it. I don't like to read books online. But this one is more like flash cards than a book. Hence, I believe that e-book is an excellent format for this book. I have browsed through the hardbound edition at bookstores. I recommend that highly too, if you prefer your books in print. Whether in print or digital, I recommend this book as a great way to start the day.
Drucker happens to be my favorite author and the only "guru" among management authors. If my review was helpful to you, I request you to select "Yes" so that the rating is improved and more readers will get to read it. For more information on this author please read my "So You'd Like To... Guides" on the best management books and my other reviews (select my username to get to those pages). |
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Hung-da Lin (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-25 00:00>
When Jim Collins (Best seller author of Good to Great, Built to Last) mentions that Drucker's words are very like Zen poems, I actually think about Confucius's Analects back to 2500 years ago in ancient China. As a Chinese, I have to read, write, and memorize Confucius's words in the elementary school. However, the wisdom of the Master Teacher is just emerging for me when I enter the tough Internet Age jungle 20 years later.
We all know that Drucker is the pathfinder of management field, and he's still kicking and writing as a live God Father today. However, I think the wisdom he discovered for us will be much broader and deeper than our current imagination. In my view, our future generation may benefit from his intellectual journey in the coming 1000 years.
We are just in the dawn of Knowledge Economy. As a knowledge worker, Drucker's ideas would be our guiding morning star. And this compact book The Daily Drucker make it possible for the fast reading, digestion, and reflection in our hectic times. What a wonderful blessing for us! |
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An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-25 00:00>
It's definitely impossible to summarize teachings of the most original management guru and author of over 35 books in 366 excerpts. However, I think the editor or co-author of the book had done a great job. The "Stream of the Desert" diary format, with a headline/key point at the top, 150-200 words of elaboration in the middle, and an action point at the bottom of each page/day really serves the purpose of providing readers with insight and motivation for getting things done in an effective and efficient manner. In short, an invaluable asset to be placed near any manager's working desk.
Below please find some of the sayings I like the most:-
- Management always deal with the nature of Man, and with Good and Evil.
- Decision makers need to factor into their present decisions the future that has already happened.
- Knowledge people must take responsibility for their own development and placement.
- It can be said that there are no underdeveloped countries. There are only undermanaged ones.
- In an ecology, the whole has to be seen and understood and the parts exist only in contemplation of the whole.
- No organization can do better than the people it has.
- The challenge to executives is to coordinate efforts of all categories of workers.
- Make systematic improvement a priority.
- Successful entrepreneurs do not wait until the "the Muse kisses them" and gives them a bright idea; they go to work.
- In cost control an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
- By far the most common mistake is to treat a generic situation as if it were a series of unique events.
- The right answer to the wrong problem is very difficult to fix.
- The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction, malperformance.
- The problem is not with technology. It is with mentality.
- The executive and the knowledge worker have only one tool - information. |
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Kevin (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-25 00:00>
If you've been in business or around business literature in the last 50 years, you have heard of Peter Drucker. He has been called the most influential business writer in history. He has been a writer, philosopher, teacher and consultant about business for a very long time. You will find at least one of his over 30 books on any list of recommended business books.
This book is a compilation of his life's work, put together in a "daily devotional" type book. For each day of the year (366 entries to account for leap years) there is a single page entry. That entry contains 2-4 paragraphs from one of his many books and ends with an action point for the day.
If you've never read any of his books and are looking for a great introduction to his work, or if you would like to have one small bit of his insight packaged to read each day, this is a great book for you.
If you've read other of his books, you will know the power of his ideas and writing, and I'm sure will have already determined how useful this could be for you. |
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G. Reid (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-25 00:00>
Who should read this excellent book? This book will benefit a large number of persons including persons working in business, government, churches, schools, universities and the military. This book will help you renew your current knowledge and teach you brand new concepts. Your existing organizational skills will be refreshed and new organizational skills will be learned.
This book helps one get better organized one step at a time. These organizational skills can be applied to organize your daily schedule, your life and see your projects through to completion. I see Mr. Drucker as the American Business Professor. He has written many books over the years. I also suggest The Essential Drucker.
The Daily Drucker has one page for each day of the year. This page contains two or three paragraphs that describe a topic, a Drucker Proverb and an Action Point. The Action Point is a mechanism for putting Drucker's insight into action. |
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An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-25 00:00>
Excellent book, great insights from one the experts on the field, ease to read and understand, takes less than 10 minutes a day to read the book, the application points are very practical. |
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Jaewoo Kim (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-25 00:00>
Peter Drucker is a business guru akin to a spiritual guru. His insights are profound, logical, and prescient. No other business thinker has been more influencial than Peter Drucker.
This book offers 366 excerpts of his best thoughts. Every page should be read, meditated, and implemented. It should be read everyday.
The book covers the practice of management and business leadership. The book is not technical. You do not need a business education or background to understand it.
The book is a joy to read for those who seek business knowledge in its highest form. If you are going to buy only one Drucker book, then buy this one as it contains his best collections.
Here are some of the excerpts:
"People decisions are the ultimate-perhaps the only- control of an organization. People determine the performance capacity of an organization. No organization can do better than the people it has."
"What motivates knowledge workers is what motivates volunteers...They need, above all, challenges".
"Every organization needs one core competence: innovation".
"Innovating organizations spend neither time nor resources on defending yesterday. Systematic abandonment of yesterday alone can free the resources, and especially the scarcest resource of them all, capable people...".
"It is precisely because the unexpected jolts us out of our preconceived notions, our assumptions, our certainties, that it is such a fertile source of innovation".
"If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change".
"The only sound way to price is to start out with what the market is willing to pay and design [products and services] to that price specification".
"Effective executives build on strengths-theirs and others. They do not build on weaknesses. ".
"the one person to distrust is the one who never makes a mistake...Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial. The better a person is, the more mistakes he will make..".
"It takes far less energy to move from first rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity".
"No one can expect to live very long without experiencing a serious setback in one's life or in one's work". |
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Jerry Saperstein (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-25 00:00>
I'm not sure how appreciative a person who has not read Peter Drucker's works could be of this gem. But for those who have, The Daily Drucker is a marvelous distillation and condensation of some of Druker's most penetrating insights from his many books and other works.
Drucker was, of course, the dean of management consultants, a man who clearly saw into the intricacies of marshalling and directing resources toward both commercial and social goals.
For those not familiar with Drucker, the one page digests provide an excellent, if out of context, introduction to his style.
Drucker was truly unique. He saw the past, present and future. His recent death was a loss, but fortunately his wisdom lives on in books like The Daily Drucker.
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Erik Eisel (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-25 00:00>
Every morning when you get to your office, you boot up your computer and you wait - conservatively - 2 minutes. During those 2 minutes, you should be reading that day's entry in the "Daily Drucker." Whether the Topic of the Month is "decision-making," "leadership" or "organizational behavior," Drucker's signature style will clear your head and give you a "swing thought" for the rest of the day. A daily dose of Drucker will remind you how you "should" run your business day, in order to be effective, rather than running things the way they really "are."
If you make his insights your own, you will learn about yourself and your organization. Eventually, you will reach your goals.
Unlike other books, this one does not contain a sustained argument, so it doesn't become dull. And, many of the quotes might be regarded as some of Drucker's most user-friendly. Plus, each quote is capped off with an "action item" by the editor, Maciarello, who does an admirable job in teasing out some of the implications of Drucker's writing.
P.S. This is the perfect gift to give an executive. |
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