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The Practice of Management (平装)
by Peter F. Drucker
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| MSL Pointer Review:
Another wonderfully Typical Drucker read on the science of management. |
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Warren Bennis (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-26 00:00>
(Peter Drucker is)The most important management thinker of our time. |
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Andrew S. Grove, President (Intel Corporation) (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-26 00:00>
Peter Drucker is a guiding light to a whole lot of us. When I see an article of his I drop everything else and read it on the spot. |
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Wall Street Journal (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-26 00:00>
The dean of this country's business and management philosophers. |
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Fortune magazine (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-26 00:00>
Drucker's idea continue to display a force and resonance that leave him pretty much in a class by himself. It's impossible to read the man without learning a lot. |
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Tom Peters (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-26 00:00>
Our debt to Peter Drucker knows no limit. |
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An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-26 00:00>
This book was published in 1954 and given its age it is still remarkably readable. It is chock full of good advice and thought provoking ideas. One of the blurbs on the back of the book describes Drucker as a "business and management philosopher." He certainly is that. This book is so completely devoid of anything approaching a scientific approach as to be sickening. He frequently says stuff like, "most companies" or "probably something like 60 to 70 percent". Seeing as how his figures are completely unsubstantiated they do more harm than good. The book shouldn't be treated as anything more than an extended opinion. As near as I could tell there wasn't a single substantiated fact in the entire book. Kinda scary that this is the best that the "dean of business and management" can produce. I would have hoped that industry was based on something a little more substantial than gut feelings, rumors, hunches, and hearsay. |
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Jose Sanchez (MSL quote), Spain
<2006-12-26 00:00>
It's really surprising that how a book dated 54 can be so modern. Throughout its pages you can see paragraphs that simply are the source of many later killing books. Mac Gregor’s theory, Hertzberg's ergonomic factor, the vision of Ted Levitt about marketing myopia, the search for simplicity, the modern concept of ethical behavior of companies and so many others. Really amazing how Drucker already peeked on these points many years ago. What new have all those new gurus been speaking about?.
Nevertheless, the most striking issue it's his lookout for human virtues in managers. Integrity and character are the main tools of the right manager. We are still on the search for them. |
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An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-26 00:00>
Peter Drucker needs no introduction. His works have shaped the management thought and philosophy for the last half a century. What he discusses in this volume, other management thinkers will find only 40 years later. A must read for understanding- What management and business is all about. |
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An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-26 00:00>
Peter Drucker wrote this book at the height of the mis-application of statistics and "science" in areas such as management and economics. Drucker, who had the benefit of experience, saw the flaws decades before the rest of us. I suspect that the reason Drucker was so ahead of his time is that he was able to tap the experience of the great industrialists who probably were unwilling to share the trade secrets of their management knowledge with the general public. It wasn't until the 1980s when the masses began to learn these things.
The book is a classic and is just as valid today as it was in the mid 20th century (why wouldn't it be?). Drucker explains within the book the reason for the word "practice" rather than "theory" of management. |
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Hiram Pardo (MSL quote), Venezuela
<2006-12-26 00:00>
The multifaceted and dynamic world in which we live obligates the actual management to act and react with leonine fierceness, his capacity for being actually in the multiple areas of knowledge, information, behavior patterns, changing consumer habits, emotional intelligence and the undeniable advances in the informatics technology, require a focused man, concentrated but in the meantime deeply informed about an increasing wave of new advances in this competitive environment where the lesser slip an dictate the irreversible failure.
Despite the famous article of Henry Mintzberg in 1993 in Harvard Business Review about the fall of the strategic planning, this text is an important guide in which you will find devices, tools to improve your own skills.
The greatness of this book is its actuality and that goes beyond another virtue, in a world that goes forward with giant steps. Go for this admirable book in which you will know important anecdotes, and valuable information about the fascinating and every time much more4 exigent and demanding Management Science.
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