Management
by Peter F. Drucker · first published 1973
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Broad, foundational treatment of managing organizations, covering tasks, responsibilities and practices. It is dense but excellent, and well suited to anyone wanting to understand business management.
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Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, PracticesManagement is an organized body of knowledge. "This book," in Peter Drucker's words, "tries to equip the manager with the understanding, the thinking, the knowledge and the skills for today's and also tomorrow's jobs." This management classic has been developed and tested during more than thirty years of teaching management in universities, in executive programs and seminars and through the author's close work with managers as a consultant for large and small businesses, government agencies, hospitals and schools. Drucker discusses the tools and
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…represents a very narrow-minded, naive view of business. Perhaps you should work in a wider variety of companies before making such grand statements. Maybe read a book or two about corporations. I recommend "Management" by Peter Drucker as a (heavy, but excellent) starter.
on “Create the Filter” ↗I recommend: "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices" by Peter Drucker, "Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind", by Al Ries, Jack Trout and "Re-imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age" by Tom Peters. They aren't…
on “Ask HN: Marketing Books for Developers?” ↗"Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices" By Peter Drucker Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0887306152 In Japan the book “What if the Female Manager of a High-School Baseball Team read Drucker’s…
on “Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why” ↗If you're looking for a book on strategy, you can't go wrong with Peter Drucker. http://www.amazon.com/The-Essential-Drucker-Management-Essen... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker
on “Ask HN: Dev promoted to more strategic role in startup. What literature?” ↗The answer depends on why you want to grow a business sense. What are you trying to achieve with your business skills? If you want to understand the business world, the management aspect of it, I suggest reading Peter Drucker's Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices. If you want to get better at networking, I would suggest reading Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and…
on “Ask HN: I have no “business sense” what to do about it?” ↗His 1973 tome Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, The Essential Drucker, and Managing for Results are three I find myself opening regularly. The Effective Executive is great as well. It's hard to narrow down because…
on “A Lifetime of Systems Thinking” ↗Congrats! When it comes to Management, I have to second vellum's advice and go with Drucker: http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Executive-Definitive-Harperb... Classic (Mad Men era) of Marketing is ruled by Ogilvy: http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Advertising-Man-David-Ogil...…
on “Ask HN: Dev promoted to more strategic role in startup. What literature?” ↗I would have recommended the same books. In addition to that please read Books by Peter F Drucker on Management, strategy and how to treat Humans. In startups, human interaction is most important more so than a huge corporation because both employee and employer needs to understand the importance of each other.…
on “Ask HN: Dev promoted to more strategic role in startup. What literature?” ↗'Business' is a large topic - anything in particular? Marketing? Finance? Customer Development? Management? etc? Books that I'd recommend: Anything by Peter Drucker, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, Made to Stick by the Heath Brothers, Blue Ocean Strategy by Kim and Mauborgne, among others.…
on “The Best Business Book I’ve Ever Read (2014)” ↗The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Drucker-Druckers-Management...
on “Ask HN: What books can teach me engineering management skills?” ↗The usual suspects: The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks. Management by Peter Drucker.
on “Ask HN: Books to read when you transform from SWE into SWE Management?” ↗…Matters - John Doerr, Larry Page The Fish That Ate the Whale - Rich Cohen The E-Myth Revisited - Michael E. Gerber The Score Takes Care of Itself - Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh Management - Peter F. Drucker Thinking in Systems - Donella H. Meadows Blue Ocean Strategy - W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
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on “Jason Fried: How to Kill a Bad Idea” ↗Can't forget Moshidora (What If the Manageress of a High School Baseball Team read Drucker's "Management"): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshidora
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