The Practice of Management 2nd Ed.

Peter F. Drucker

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1955, 355 pages

ISBN: 978-0-7506-8504-7

Keywords: Management

Last modified: April 18, 2021, 12:54 a.m.

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In a competitive economy, above all, the quality and performance of the managers determine the success of a business, indeed they determine its survival. For the quality and performance of its managers is the only effective advantage an enterprise in a competitive economy can have.

  • Introduction: The Nature of Management
    1. The Role of Management
    2. The Jobs of Management
    3. The Challenge to Management
  • Part I: Managing a Business
    1. The Sears Story
    2. What is a Business?
    3. What is Our Business — and What Should It Be?
    4. The Objectives of a Business
    5. Today's Decisions for Tomorrow's Results
    6. The Principles of Production
  • Part II: Managing Managers
    1. The Ford Story
    2. Management by Objectives and Self-control
    3. Managers Must Manage
    4. The Spirit of an Organization
    5. Chief Executive and Board
    6. Developing Managers
  • Part III: The Structure of Management
    1. What Kind of Structure?
    2. Building the Structure
    3. The Small, the Large, the Growing Business
  • Part IV: The Management of Worker and Work
    1. The IBM Story
    2. Employing the Whole Man
    3. Is Personnel Management Bankrupt?
    4. Human Organization for Peak Performance
    5. Motivating to Peak Performance
    6. The Economic Dimension
    7. The Supervisor
    8. The Professional Employee
  • Part V: What It Means to Be a Manager
    1. The Manager and His Work
    2. Making Decisions
    3. The Manager of Tomorrow
  • Conclusion: The Responsibilities of Management
    • The Responsibilities of Management

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The Practice of Management

Reviewed by Roland Buresund

Excellent ********** (10 out of 10)

Last modified: Sept. 10, 2009, 11:40 p.m.

What can you say about one of the all-time classics?

This is as relevant in 2009 as it was in 1955. Pure, outstanding, genius.

Do I need to tell you that this is recommended reading?

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