Inside Drucker's BrainThe most accessible guide to the essential ideas of “the inventor of modern management”. In late 2003, ninety-four-year-old Peter Drucker invited Jeffrey Krames to his home for an unprecedented day-long interview. He spoke candidly about his seminal management principles, his enormous body of work (thirty-eight books over six decades), and the leaders he had advised over the years (including Jack Welch). Krames used the insights he gained that day to create Inside Drucker’s Brain--a compact guide to the great man’s wisdom. Krames had no intention of writing a biography, but rather a book that would showcase Drucker’s most important ideas and strategies, and explain why they are just as useful today as they were decades ago. Drucker’s biggest contribution was a mind-set, not a methodology. He focused on prodding managers to ask the right questions, to look beyond what they thought they knew, and to focus on tomorrow rather than yesterday. If anything, this mind-set is more valuable in the digital age than it was in the industrial age. This user-friendly book will help readers grasp all of Drucker’s key ideas on leadership, strategy, innovation, personal effectiveness, career development, and many other topics. |
Contents
Opportunity Favors the Prepared Mind | |
Execution First and Always | |
Broken Washroom Doors | |
OutsideIn | |
When Naturals Run | |
The Jeffersonian Ideal | |
Abandon All but Tomorrow | |
Drucker on Welch | |
Lifeanddeath Decisions | |
The Strategic Drucker | |
The Fourth Information Revolution | |
The Leaders Most Important | |
A Short Course on Innovation | |
Epilogue | |
Acknowledgements Sources | |
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