Why Drucker's Ideas Matter More Now than Ever
“This book is an excellent way to understand how Drucker’s ideas apply to today’s dilemmas, be they theproblems faced by organizations, by governments, or by individuals.”
-from the Foreword, by Charles Handy
“This compilation of smart essays on the ‘Drucker difference’ illustrates how astonishingly wide the wings ofDrucker’s wisdom have spread. We all stand gratefully in his shadows, silent in awe.”
—Warren Bennis, Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California
“Peter Drucker is more than a ‘management writer.’ He literally created the foundation on which a FunctioningSociety rests. In The Drucker Difference, Peter’s closest colleagues extend and amplify his tour de force body ofideas and ideals. It is the next step forward.”
—Bob Buford, Chairman, The Drucker Institute, and Founder, Leadership Network
“Much has been written by and about my friend and mentor, Peter Drucker. But this book is different. It is writtenby those who knew and understood him as friends and faculty colleagues and reflects his thoughts andprinciples as they are currently being taught to those who will be making a difference for tomorrow.”
—C. William Pollard, Chairman Emeritus, The ServiceMaster Company
“Hats off to the Drucker faculty members for putting the tacit knowledge they gained from working together withPeter Drucker into explicit knowledge through the publication of this book.”
—Ikujiro Nonaka, Professor Emeritus, Hitotsubashi University, Japan, andXerox Distinguished Faculty Scholar, University of California at Berkeley
“The Drucker Difference is a unique book that enables present and future executives to capitalize onPeter Drucker’s wisdom and to comprehend that knowledge from an entirely new perspective.”
—Minglo Shao, Chairman, Bright China
About the Book:
Peter F. Drucker was one of the mostinfluential business thinkers in history. Consideredthe father of modern management, hewas concerned not only with the human sideof management, but also with the larger societalroles played by both companies and theindividuals within them.
If there has ever been a timewhen such thinkers are relevant, it is now.
The Drucker Difference casts new light onDrucker’s business philosophy, analyzing hismost important ideas in the context of today’sbusiness world. Through individual contributionsby professors from The Peter F. Druckerand Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management,it combines expert insight andcurrent scholarship to reveal how organizationsand executives can interpret and applyDrucker’s timeless ideas.
Today’s top business thinkers provide sixteenchapters analyzing Drucker’s views on themost critical issues of our time, including:
- Government, business, and civil society(Ira Jackson)
- The interplay of values and power withincompanies (Karen E. Linkletter andJoseph A. Maciariello)
- Applying collaboration to “knowledge work”(Craig L. Pearce)
- Drucker’s management vision (Richard Smith)
- Economic environment, innovation, and industrydynamics (Hideki Yamawaki)
Each contributor explains a single, classicaspect of Drucker’s work, examines its implicationsin today’s business environment, andapplies an up-to-date and contemporary interpretationof Drucker’s wisdom.
Covering everything from marketing andleadership to strategy and governance, TheDrucker Difference is both a timely newassessment and a valuable addition to the canonof Drucker literature.
Table of Contents:
1. The Drucker Difference: Introduction
2. Leadership
3. Corporate Purpose
4. Marketing
5. Nonprofit/Social Sector Organizations
6. Shared Leadership
7. Labor Markets, HR & Personnel Economics. Pension Funds
8. Peter Drucker: The Humanist Economist
9. The Economic Environment
10. Strategy
11. Governance
12. Accounting
13. Government & Business
14. Self Management
About the Author :
Craig L. Pearce is Professor of
Management at The Drucker
School of Management. His research
on shared leadership has
been featured in The Wall Street
Journal. Pearce’s most recent
book is Shared Leadership, and his forthcoming
book is Share the Lead.
Joseph A. Maciariello is the
Horton Professor of Management
at The Drucker School of
Management. He coauthored
The Daily Drucker and The
Effective Executive in Action
with Peter F. Drucker and recently carried on
Drucker’s legacy by revising two existing
Drucker books: Management and Management
Cases.
Hideki Yamawaki is Professor
of Management and Associate
Dean at The Drucker School
of Management. His most recent
book is Japanese Exports
and Foreign Direct Investment:
Imperfect Competition in International Markets.
The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of
Management is located in Claremont, California. To learn more
about its mission and Peter F. Drucker’s work, please visit
www.drucker.cgu.edu or www.thedruckerinstitute.com.
