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Author:
Jack Beatty
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Peter Drucker's influence is global: his 29 books have sold over
five million copies, and they have been translated into nearly every
language in the world. His views on management, industrial organisation,
business strategy, leadership development, and employee motivation
have tutored not jut companies but countries. The World According
to Peter Drucker is the first biography and concise intellectual
portrait of one of the twentieth century's great minds - "the
greatest thinker management theory has produced", in the worlds
of The Economist. Written with Drucker's full cooperation, the book
ranges over six decades of Drucker's work from his early antifascist
writings to his very latest books. The reader learns the inside
story of Why Drucker's classic study of GM was scorned by Alfred
Sloan; watches over Drucker's shoulder as he virtually invents management
and management theory; and notes the recurring paradox of Drucker's
career: the "man who invented the corporate society" has
been a sometimes sulphuric critic of capitalist excess.
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