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Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
by Peter F. Drucker
from Collins Business

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• insightful, practical and still relevant 35 years after being published
  Domain specific know-how is obviously essential to effective management. In this book, Peter Drucker discusses non-domain-specific know-how for management. Even though the book is long at 861 pages, it is NOT wordy and he makes every sentence count.
  Insightful, practical, straight-forward and meaningful (to me) discussion topics included job design, organizational design, growing and selecting managers, improving organizational productivity, strategy, and managing innovation.

• More than worth the price
  I had originally rented this book from the library with an intention of zipping through it to obtain a general idea and feel for the concepts presented. I found myself constantly stopping to take notes and unable to finish the entire book during the loan period. After renewing twice and hardly making it a quarter of the way through I decided I would have to purchase the book.
  As the General Manager of a small business with no formal training and little prior experience in managing a company this was... more info

• Great content, bad material
  I'll give 5 stars for the content of the book, but why is it so small in dimentions and so THICK. I don't understand why it was made this way. Along with this book, I have ordered four more Drucker books and the paper quality of all of them is AWFUL.

• The original and best work on corporate strategy
  This is a heavyweight tome with clear insight. Every manager should read this.
  For example, Drucker writes what strategy planning is not:
  a box of tricks;
  nor modelling;
  nor forecasting;
  nor masterminding the future.
  Methodically, he explains what it is: Analytical thinking & commitment of resources to action.
  Drucker is famous for his simple questions which resonated across the corporate world for 50 years, and was especially influential with Jack Welch at... more info

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