The Practice of Management
by Peter F. Drucker · first published 1954
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"This classic volume achieves a remarkable width of appeal without sacrificing scientific accuracy or depth of analysis. It is a valuable contribution to the study of business efficiency which should be read by anyone wanting information about the developments and place of management, and it is as relevant today as when it was first written. This is a practical book, written out of many years of experience in working with managements of small, medium and large corporations. It aims to be a management guide, enabling readers to examine their own work and performance, to diagnose their weaknesse
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The Frontiers of Management, and The Practice of Management, both by Drucker, are excellent and inspiring. Especially the former.
on “CEO” ↗'The Purpose of a Business is to Create a Customer' Drucker - 'The Practice of Management' is full of common sense 'anti-values'
on “What are your company's anti-values?” ↗You got me curious as well, so I went looking. According to Michael Port in his own Beyond Booked Solid, the quote is from Drucker in Drucker's The Practice of Management. http://books.google.com/books?id=gyKbgTCs2e0C&pg=PT10&dq=%22...
on “Are coders worth it? (2013)” ↗"There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer" - Peter Drucker's The Practice of Management[1] Let's take shareholders (both internal/external) out of the equation for a second... What do profits really actually do for companies? You take those profits, reinvest them to create even more customers.…
on “Amazon Profits Fall 45 Percent, Still the Most Amazing Company in the World” ↗autoworkers == un-skilled labor managers == skilled labor From Drucker's The Practice of Management: A scant twenty years ago, it was widely believed that the mass-production technology—yesterday’s industrial revolution—threw people out of work. Today we know that wherever it has been introduced, it…
on “Developers are the autoworkers of our generation” ↗It's been a drag on the U.S. economy for decades. Design by PowerPoint. Even Drucker in "The Practice of Management" didn't preach technical ignorance - but federation (2 pizza rule) and nurturing the craftsmen. What I want to know is why hasn't A16Z industrialized the SAAS startup? A whitelabel RapidAPI. Support…
on “Elon Musk Decries ‘MBA-Ization’ of America” ↗