Management Hardcover – Big Book, 22 April 2008

Uma característica da sociedade atual é que praticamente todas as funções sociais são realizadas por organizações. Saúde, educação, entretenimento, transporte, finanças, etc. são ofertadas por empresas que não o Estado. Contudo, independente da área de atuação, há uma atividade fundamental presente em todas as organizações: o "management" (prefiro manter o termo em inglês por acreditar que os equivalente em português não conseguem traduzi-lo com plenitude).Drucker é o maior expoente no campo de gestão. É verdade que bebeu muito dos escritos de Chandler, mas soube dar um rumo próprio ao tema. Essa sua obra é uma espécie de síntese de seus ensinamentos. Não espere um livro superficial e cheio de dicas e ferramentas; Drucker trata do âmago do assunto. Como nossa sociedade depende cada vez mais das organizações para funcionar, o management é a atividade fundamental que faz com que as organizações possam realizar sua missão social. E essa missão depende de três pontos: desempenho econômico, tornar o trabalho e trabalhador produtivo e gerenciar os impactos sociais da organização.Drucker era um gênio. Depois de ler seus livros você vai perceber que tudo que se escrever sobre management são ideias vazias e efêmeras.

A classic book on management by the founding father of modern management principle, it strikes to the core about the all aspects of management. If anyone who want to understand the principle, or want to management any thing in life, I think this is the only book he or she needs to study.

Book is amazing but the font of this edition is too small. Had to return the book because my eyes were hurting due to font size.

Management is usually perceived as business management. And this could be the most underestimated aspect of the discipline. Management is about Human Society and Organizations. Management is a Social Science and hence it is applicable to all aspects of human life and human society. Be it government, University, Hospitals, Education, Business, NGOs.I find myself unlucky to read this book after so many years in life. But I am lucky to come across such seminal work of Peter Drucker. I read many other books of Peter Drucker, and this book is Crux of many different books.To understand and develop any organization, Management has to be the centre.Management have applications in such a vast range of areas and disciplines that one can not even imagine. To give a small example, Peter Drucker was a consultant, and given consultancy to a church in US, which became the largest church by members in the world.Peter Drucker was approached after Korean War to rebuild South Korea.Peter Drucker was invited to China and with his permission, Peter drucker academy was opened in Hong Kong. It is no surprise that one can find many books of Peter Drucker been translated to Chinese language.Now one can see where China is moving and with what momentum and pace.Organization can not exists without Humans.And the best definition of management is given by Drucker, And it is, To make human resources productive. This is the only convincing definition one could have.And there is only one principle of Management, that is Management By Objectives.I will insist to read other books of Peter Drucker to get insight into the discipline.It broaden the horizon of understanding and perception. Management is value based discipline. Without Values, management can not exist.Sometimes, one might feel, this is a common sense which is being just codified in book. Well, you are right.Peter Drucker built a discipline out of Common Sense, And that's why it will remain as most influential and crucial discipline in Human Society and Development.

Peter F. Drucker (November 19th, 1909 in Vienna, Austria – November 11th, 2005 in Claremont, California, USA) published “The Practice of Management” in 1954 and “Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices” in 1973. “Management – Revised Edition” by Peter F. Drucker revised and updated by Joseph A. Maciariello published in 2008 are three books which should be read by every manager and management candidate.These three books together provide the best possible practices and policies by the most competent authority of the 20th century in this discipline. Professor Maciariello is the most competent authority presenting and interpreting Drucker’s oeuvre.In his book “The Effective Executive in Action” published in 2006 Peter Drucker called “Professor Joseph A. Maciariello his friend and colleague who has taught my work for thirty years and knows it much better than I do.”This book is a kind of capstone in Drucker’s oeuvre. Without Professor Maciariello this book would not exist.“Peter F. Drucker was asked in early 1999, ‘What do you consider to be your most important contribution?’ His answer:That I early on – almost sixty years ago – realized that management has become the constitutive organ and function of the Society of Organizations;That management is not ‘Business Management’ – though it first attained attention in business – but the governing organ of all institutions of Modern Society;That I established the study of management as a discipline in its own right; andThat I focused this discipline on People and Power; on Values, Structure, and Constitution; and above all, on responsibilities – that is, focused the Discipline of Management on management as a truly liberal art.Peter F. Drucker, January 18, 1999 – Source: The Drucker Institute Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California 91711”With the help of amazon’s “Look inside” function you find the Contents with 48 chapters and an extract of Peter Drucker’s Legacy provided by Jim Collins who describes Drucker’s “entire approach to ideas, composed of four elements …” (Page XII).In the Introduction to the Revised Edition on page XVII (not accessible via “Look inside”) the reader finds Figure 1 which provides the “Systems View: management as a Whole”.“Each element of figure 1 is described in this book. Unless otherwise indicated, all chapters in this book are adapted from the works of Peter Drucker and are contained in his numerous books and articles. This book draws upon his entire body of knowledge, which is housed at The Drucker Institute.” For details you should visit its website.In the Preface you find the following advice: “I suggest you read one chapter at a time – it is a long book. And then first ask, ‘What do these issues, these challenges, mean for our organization and for me as a knowledge worker, a professional, an executive?’ Once you have thought this through, ask, ‘What action should our organization and I, the individual knowledge worker and/or executive, take to make the challenges of this chapter into opportunities for our organization and me?’”Whatever approach you as a reader will apply when reading, studying or teaching Drucker I suggest you follow his advice in Chapter 45 or in his small book “Managing Oneself” and in Chapter 47 “Revitalizing Oneself – Seven Personal Experiences”. The sooner you start the better; however it is never too late.Don’t miss the Author’s Note by Joseph A. Maciariello, December 2007 …“My work with him on The Daily Drucker provided me the opportunity to ‘look around’ at all of his work. It was a humbling exercise; I was amazed at the breadth and depth of his life’s work. …I am fully convinced that we owe a big THANK YOU to Professor Maciariello for revising and updating Peter Drucker’s book “Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices” published in 1973 (my copy has 839 pages) saving Peter Drucker’s oeuvre for the future as well as for his books about Peter Drucker.I could imagine that without Professor Maciariello’s engagement Drucker’s legacy would not be the same.I have studied all books by and about Peter Drucker. Step by step, it was a fascinating journey over four decades. There was no single book written by Peter Drucker which I considered as less important or even unimportant.This is my last customer review of all books written by Peter Drucker.