The Drucker Difference: What the World's Greatest Management Thinker Means to Today's Business Leaders

by Craig L. Pearce, Joseph Maciariello, Hideki Yamawaki

Why Drucker's Ideas Matter More Now than Ever “This book is an excellent way to understand how Drucker’s ideas apply to today’s dilemmas, be they the problems faced by organizations, by governments, or by individuals.”
-from the Foreword, by Charles Handy “This compilation of smart essays on the ‘Drucker difference’ illustrates how astonishingly wide the wings of Drucker’s wisdom have spread. We all stand gratefully in his shadows, silent in awe.”
―Warren Bennis, Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California “Peter Drucker is more than a ‘management writer.’ He literally created the foundation on which a Functioning Society rests. In The Drucker Difference , Peter’s closest colleagues extend and amplify his tour de force body of ideas and ideals. It is the next step forward.”
―Bob Buford, Chairman, The Drucker Institute, and Founder, Leadership Network “Much has been written by and about my friend and mentor, Peter Drucker. But this book is different. It is written by those who knew and understood him as friends and faculty colleagues and reflects his thoughts and principles as they are currently being taught to those who will be making a difference for tomorrow.”
―C. William Pollard, Chairman Emeritus, The ServiceMaster Company “Hats off to the Drucker faculty members for putting the tacit knowledge they gained from working together with Peter Drucker into explicit knowledge through the publication of this book.”
―Ikujiro Nonaka, Professor Emeritus, Hitotsubashi University, Japan, and Xerox Distinguished Faculty Scholar, University of California at Berkeley “ The Drucker Difference is a unique book that enables present and future executives to capitalize on Peter Drucker’s wisdom and to comprehend that knowledge from an entirely new perspective.”
―Minglo Shao, Chairman, Bright China About the Peter F. Drucker was one of the most influential business thinkers in history. Considered the father of modern management, he was concerned not only with the human side of management, but also with the larger societal roles played by both companies and the individuals within them. If there has ever been a time when such thinkers are relevant, it is now. The Drucker Difference casts new light on Drucker’s business philosophy, analyzing his most important ideas in the context of today’s business world. Through individual contributions by professors from The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, it combines expert insight and current scholarship to reveal how organizations and executives can interpret and apply Drucker’s timeless ideas. Today’s top business thinkers provide sixteen chapters analyzing Drucker’s views on the most critical issues of our time,

Genres: Management, Business

320 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2009

Reviews

[Didit Priandi]

The Drucker DIfference membuka wawasan baru mengenai teori bisnis Drucker, dengan menganalisa berbagai pemikirannya yang paling penting dengan kondisi dunia bisnis saat ini. Buku ini menggabungkan wawasan dari para ahli dan ilmu pengetahuan terbaru untuk mengungkapkan bagaimana perusahaan dan para eksekutifnya dapat menafsirkan dan menerapkan berbagai pemikiran abadi Drucker. Semua hal akan dijelaskan dalam buku ini, mulai dari pemasaran, kepemimpinan, strategi, hingga cara kelola perusahaan yang baik.

[Jenn Raley]

A good way to get an overview of Drucker's ideas. Some of the chapters were more Drucker-centric than others.

People looking for a good management book might want to look elsewhere. This one is more academic.

[Laura]

This series of articles written by faculty at the Gradaute School of Business named for the late Peter Drucker applies his theory of management to current conditions. It does a good job of both summarizing and applying Drucker's work.