The Essential Drucker

This volume collects essential writings from Peter F. Drucker's sixty years of work on management. It is the first selection of Drucker's management work, spanning from The Practice of Management (1954) to Management Challenges for the 21st Century (1999). The book offers, in Drucker's words, "a coherent and fairly comprehensive introduction to management [and] gives an overview of my works on management and thus answers a question I have been asked again: which of my writings are essential?" The Essential Drucker contains twenty-six selections on management in the organization, management and the individual, and management and society. It covers the basic principles and concerns of management and its problems, challenges, and opportunities, giving managers, executives, and professionals the tools to perform the tasks that the economy and society of tomorrow will demand of them.