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The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done (Hardcover)
by Peter F. Drucker
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Author: Peter F. Drucker
Publisher: Collins
Pub. in: October, 2004
ISBN: 0060742445
Pages: 448
Measurements: 7.5 x 5.8 x 1.4 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00025
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Any book that is mostly filled with Peter Drucker's quotes has to have enormous value. This volume of Drucker attempts to parse the major learnings from what Professor Drucker has had to say on every subject into bite-sized bits along with suggestions for turning those observations into daily learning. That value shines through in the Drucker material, but is seriously diluted in the editor's selection of material, organization of that material and guides for action.
Knowing well that Professor Drucker favors using a disciplined method to guide his year and time, I expected that this volume would do the same. Instead, I was shocked to discover that the material is randomly distributed with lots of repetition over the year rather than being placed in logical order. For instance, the first day of the year might have begun with Professor Drucker's famous dictum to read intensively about a new subject every year or to slough off what is no longer relevant. Instead the book begins with a section on Executive Integrity. This is the first of many sections on that important subject. One would have expected that these materials would all be in one place rather than strung out. Other subjects are similarly strung out in disconnected fashion for part of the book.
The selection of sections also leaves a lot to be desired. There's material in here on the proper role of government, drawing on Professor Drucker's early writing. Much of the material about freedom versus totalitarianism is not terribly relevant to someone who wants to run a business better. It's as though the editor thought that he had to include everything that Professor Drucker had ever thought about rather than just what a leader needs to know.
The book's injunctions to actions are often quite weak. There must be five sections for taking action for planning the new government for Iraq. Now, I don't really see how that helps me be a more effective leader.
In addition, each selection is just a page. Some of the writing would have been more powerful if combined with an example which might have meant being a little longer.
My suggestion is that you skip this book and read The Essential Drucker instead. You will gain much more coherence in your new knowledge from that book than from this one.
Professor Drucker deserves an editor who can combine his work in a way that reflects Professor Drucker's own philosophies. I hope Professor Drucker finds one soon. (From quoting Donald Mitchell, USA)
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Executives, managers, entrepreneurs, professionals, government and nonprofit leaders, and MBAs.
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Peter F. Drucker was considered one of management's top thinkers. As the author of more than 35 books, his ideas have had an enormous impact on shaping the modern corporation. In 2002, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. During his lifetime, Drucker was a writer, teacher, philosopher, reporter, consultant, and professor at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University.
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Revered management thinker Peter F. Drucker is our trusted guide in this thoughtful, day-by-day companion that offers his penetrating and practical wisdom. Amid the multiple pressures of our daily work lives, The Daily Drucker provides the inspiration and advice to meet the many challenges we face. With his trademark clarity, vision, and humanity, Drucker sets out his ideas on a broad swath of key topics, from time management, to innovation, to outsourcing, providing useful insights for each day of the year.
These 366 daily readings have been harvested from Drucker's lifetime of work. At the bottom of each page, the reader will find an action point that spells out exactly how to put Drucker's ideas into practice. It is as if the wisest and most action-oriented management consultant in the world is in the room, offering his timeless gems of advice. The Daily Drucker is for anyone who seeks to understand and put to use Drucker's powerful words and ideas.
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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! |
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). |
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! |
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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