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The Daily Drucker

The Daily Drucker

Peter F. Drucker, Joseph A. Maciariello
2004
T4 448 pages · about 7h 28m to read Open Librarygoodreads

Summary

Joseph Maciariello assembled this with Peter Drucker as a book of daily readings: 366 short extracts from Drucker's writing, each with a brief action point, arranged by date rather than by theme.

The extracts cover the full range of Drucker's work, from the early social analysis through the management treatises to the late writing on knowledge work and on managing oneself. Each entry is a paragraph or two on a single idea, with a suggested application beneath it.

The format determines the book's use. It is not a way to learn Drucker's arguments, since the extracts are separated from the reasoning that supports them and appear in an order that carries no logic. It works as a prompt for someone who already knows the material and wants a daily reminder. Readers encountering Drucker for the first time should read The Practice of Management or the Harvard Business Review collection instead.

Key takeaways 7

  1. The purpose of a business is to create a customer, which makes marketing and innovation the only functions producing results.
  2. Effectiveness can be learned as a set of habits and is distinct from intelligence or knowledge.
  3. Managers should ask what needs to be done rather than what they want to do.
  4. Organisations must practise systematic abandonment of products, policies and practices that would not be started today.
  5. Knowledge workers must be managed as volunteers because they own their means of production and can leave with it.
  6. Decisions about people are the executive's highest-stakes work and the hardest to reverse.
  7. The format separates each idea from the reasoning that supports it, which makes this a reminder rather than an introduction.

Who should read it

Readers already familiar with Drucker who want a daily prompt rather than a sustained argument.

About Peter F. Drucker

Management writer and consultant; professor at Bennington, NYU and Claremont Graduate University

He invented management as a field of study, and The Practice of Management and The Effective Executive remain the primary sources every later writer builds on.

NYU, Claremont Graduate University

Peter F. Drucker’s page →NYU →Claremont Graduate University →

Similar books 6

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The Effective ExecutiveThe Effective Executive
T1 The Effective Executive
Peter F. Drucker · 1967
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Effectiveness is learned practice: manage time, pick priorities, decide well.

Recommended by: Ev Williams, Nat Eliason, David Cancel and 5 others

Managing OneselfManaging Oneself
T4 Managing Oneself
Peter F. Drucker · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Knowledge workers must run their own careers by knowing their strengths and values.

Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Patrick Collison and 3 others

A Functioning SocietyA Functioning Society
T4 A Functioning Society
Peter F. Drucker · 2003
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Selections on community and society

Adventures of a BystanderAdventures of a Bystander
T4 Adventures of a Bystander
Peter F. Drucker · 1979
Open LibraryGoodreads

A memoir told through portraits of the people the author knew, from Vienna on.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Stewart Brand

An Introductory View of ManagementAn Introductory View of Management
T4 An Introductory View of Management
Peter F. Drucker · 1977
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Classic DruckerClassic Drucker
T4 Classic Drucker
Peter F. Drucker · 2006
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Posthumous HBR collection

Where it sits in the reference 3

Peter F. Drucker
Strategists
Management and Organisational Design
Business themes
Management classics
Business themes

Topics

Business and ManagementProductivity and HabitsTime management and focus