By Peter F. Drucker, HarperCollins, July 2003

Father of modern management, social commentator, and preeminent business philosopher, Peter F. Drucker has been analyzing economics and society for more than sixty years. Now for readers everywhere who are concerned with the ways that management practices and principles affect the performance of the organization, the individual, and society, there is The Essential Drucker -- an invaluable compilation of management essentials from the works of a management legend.

Containing twenty-six selections, The Essential Drucker covers the basic principles and concerns of management and its problems, challenges, and opportunities, giving managers, executives, and professionals the tools to perform the tasks that the economy and society of tomorrow will demand of them.

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List of publications:

• The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism (1939)
• The Future of Industrial Man (1942)
• Concept of the Corporation (1945) (A study of General Motors)
• The New Society (1950)
• The Practice of Management (1954)
• America's Next 20 Years (1957)
• Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959)
• Power and Democracy in America (1961)
• Managing for Results: Economic Tasks and Risk-Taking Decisions (1964)
• The Effective Executive (1966)
• The Age of Discontinuity (1968)
• Technology, Management and Society (1970)
• Men, Ideas and Politics (1971)
• Management: Tasks, Responsibilities and Practices (1973)
• The Unseen Revolution: How the Pension Fund Came to America (1976)
• An Introductory View of Management (1977)
• Adventures of a Bystander (1979) (Autobiography)
• Song of the Brush: Japanese Painting from the Sanso Collection (1979)
• Managing in Turbulent Times (1980)
• Toward the Next Economics and Other Essays (1981)
• The Changing World of the Executive (1982)
• The Temptation to Do Good (1984)
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles (1985)
• The Frontiers of Management (1986)
• The New Realities (1989)
• Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Practices and Principles (1990)
• Managing for the Future: The 1990s and Beyond (1992)
• The Post-Capitalist Society (1993)
• The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition (1993)
• The Theory of the Business (1994)
• Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995)
• Drucker on Asia: A Dialogue Between Peter Drucker and Isao Nakauchi (1997)
• Peter Drucker on the Profession of Management (1998)
• Management Challenges for the 21st Century (1999)
• Managing Oneself (1999)
• The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management (2001)
• Leading in a Time of Change: What it Will Take to Lead Tomorrow (2001; with Peter Senge)
• The Effective Executive Revised (2002)
• Managing in the Next Society (2002)
• A Functioning Society (2003)
• The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done (2004)
• The Effective Executive in Action (2005)
  

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