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The Frontiers of Management: Where Tomorrow's Decisions Are Being Shaped Today
America's foremost authority on business management analyzes trends in management practices across the world and discusses how to take advantage of changes in the global economy, in a best-seller featuring a new introduction by the author. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
384 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1986
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Peter F. Drucker
601 books2,013 followersPeter Ferdinand Drucker was a writer, management consultant and university professor. His writing focused on management-related literature. Peter Drucker made famous the term knowledge worker and is thought to have unknowingly ushered in the knowledge economy, which effectively challenges Karl Marx's world-view of the political economy. George Orwell credits Peter Drucker as one of the only writers to predict the German-Soviet Pact of 1939.
The son of a high level civil servant in the Habsburg empire, Drucker was born in the chocolate capital of Austria, in a small village named Kaasgraben (now a suburb of Vienna, part of the 19th district, Döbling). Following the defeat of Austria-Hungary in World War I, there were few opportunities for employment in Vienna so after finishing school he went to Germany, first working in banking and then in journalism. While in Germany, he earned a doctorate in International Law. The rise of Nazism forced him to leave Germany in 1933. After spending four years in London, in 1937 he moved permanently to the United States, where he became a university professor as well as a freelance writer and business guru. In 1943 he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He taught at New York University as a Professor of Management from 1950 to 1971. From 1971 to his death he was the Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at Claremont Graduate University.
The son of a high level civil servant in the Habsburg empire, Drucker was born in the chocolate capital of Austria, in a small village named Kaasgraben (now a suburb of Vienna, part of the 19th district, Döbling). Following the defeat of Austria-Hungary in World War I, there were few opportunities for employment in Vienna so after finishing school he went to Germany, first working in banking and then in journalism. While in Germany, he earned a doctorate in International Law. The rise of Nazism forced him to leave Germany in 1933. After spending four years in London, in 1937 he moved permanently to the United States, where he became a university professor as well as a freelance writer and business guru. In 1943 he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He taught at New York University as a Professor of Management from 1950 to 1971. From 1971 to his death he was the Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at Claremont Graduate University.
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August 18, 2009
Oh, good Lord. Why? Now I have to jettison this and start from scratch.
Not only does he have an obvious bug up his ass, his impressions and intuition are...less than stellar.
I only wanted to read this because another source I WAS going to use for a presentation quoted it extensively.
Now I can't read this book after all. This jaw-dropping excerpt is from the interview with the author portion of this book, written in 1985:
"They don't have the discipline. They don't have the tools, the knowledge."
"I am on record as saying that those two young men would not survive. The Lord was singularly unkind to them...By giving them too much success too soon. If the Lord wants to destroy, He does what He did to those two. They never got their noses rubbed in the dirt. They never had to dig. It came too easy. Success made them arrogant. They don't know the simple elements. They're like an architect who doesn't know how to drive a nail or what a stud is. A great strength is to have five to ten years of, call it management, under your belt before you start. If you don't have it, then you make these elementary mistakes."
He's only talking about Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, cofounders of Apple Computer, Inc., and two of the FUCKING RICHEST MEN IN THE COUNTRY.
Not only does he have an obvious bug up his ass, his impressions and intuition are...less than stellar.
I only wanted to read this because another source I WAS going to use for a presentation quoted it extensively.
Now I can't read this book after all. This jaw-dropping excerpt is from the interview with the author portion of this book, written in 1985:
"They don't have the discipline. They don't have the tools, the knowledge."
"I am on record as saying that those two young men would not survive. The Lord was singularly unkind to them...By giving them too much success too soon. If the Lord wants to destroy, He does what He did to those two. They never got their noses rubbed in the dirt. They never had to dig. It came too easy. Success made them arrogant. They don't know the simple elements. They're like an architect who doesn't know how to drive a nail or what a stud is. A great strength is to have five to ten years of, call it management, under your belt before you start. If you don't have it, then you make these elementary mistakes."
He's only talking about Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, cofounders of Apple Computer, Inc., and two of the FUCKING RICHEST MEN IN THE COUNTRY.
December 21, 2016
Interesting book, very unlike anything I've ever really read. It's the first time I read a book by Peter Drucker, so I don't know if it's representative of this very well known and respected man. Reading this book, which is basically a collect of essays and musing about the changing role of manager in the late 20th century, exposed me to equal parts history lesson and intriguing new insights. Some of Peter Drucker's predictions did not come true (at least, as of now), but more of them did. If at the very least, it made me want to read more of his books.
January 28, 2020
Peter Drucker is the guru of modern management and this book by him is a classic in management.
The last edition was published in 2004, but the book is more relevant today and in future than it ever was.
Because, Drucker has not written about what to look at , but how to look at the world of management, which will remain as a set of tools for management leaders for a long time.
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The last edition was published in 2004, but the book is more relevant today and in future than it ever was.
Because, Drucker has not written about what to look at , but how to look at the world of management, which will remain as a set of tools for management leaders for a long time.
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August 6, 2021
It's a bit outdated book in the 21st century but Peter F Ducker had a really good grip and almost accurate prediction on the future.
November 8, 2012
Too old concepts... maybe for reference but not to read it all.
March 30, 2013
A must-read book by Peter Drucker on management for knowledge workers, managers, executives, and entrepreneurs.
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