Peter Drucker revolutionized management thinking before there was management thinking. For nearly half a century he inspired and educated managers--and powerfully shaped the nature of business--with his landmark articles in Harvard Business Review. Through Drucker's unique lens, this volume...

Part I. What is management?: Why managers? -- Management: its roots and its emergence -- Management: a look backward and a look forward -- The dimensions of management -- The challenges of management -- Part II. What is a manager?: Managers and their work -- Management by objectives and...

Drucker was timely and inopportune at the same time. It is clear that from his extensive, solid and continual formation there has been born a singular, and at the same time multi-faceted, philosophy, which is deliberately difficult to summarize. Drucker was one of the first, if not the first, to...