ISBN 9780071638005

Title: The Drucker Difference

Authors: Craig L. Pearce, Joseph A. Maciariello, and Hideki Yamamwaki

ISBN: 9780071638005

Peter F. Drucker was one of the most influential business thinkers in history. Considered the father of modern management, he was concerned not only with the human side of management, but also with the larger societal roles played by both companies and the individuals within them.

If there has ever been a time when such thinkers are relevant, it is now.

The Drucker Difference casts new light on Drucker’s business philosophy, analyzing his most important ideas in the context of today’s business world. Through individual contributions by professors from The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, it combines expert insight and current scholarship to reveal how organizations and executives can interpret and apply Drucker’s timeless ideas.

Today’s top business thinkers provide sixteen chapters analyzing Drucker’s views on the most critical issues of our time, including:

• Government, business, and civil society (Ira Jackson)
• The interplay of values and power within companies (Karen E. Linkletter and Joseph A. Maciariello)
• Applying collaboration to “knowledge work” (Craig L. Pearce)
• Drucker’s management vision (Richard Smith)
• Economic environment, innovation, and industry dynamics (Hideki Yamawaki)

Each contributor explains a single, classic aspect of Drucker’s work, examines its implications in today’s business environment, and applies an up-to-date and contemporary interpretation of Drucker’s wisdom.

Covering everything from marketing and leadership to strategy and governance, The Drucker Difference is both a timely new assessment and a valuable addition to the canon of Drucker literature.

About the Authors

Craig L. Pearce is Professor of Management at The Drucker School of Management. His research on shared leadership has been featured in The Wall Street Journal. Pearce’s most recent book is Shared Leadership, and his forthcoming book is Share the Lead.

Joseph A. Maciariello is the Horton Professor of Management at The Drucker School of Management. He coauthored The Daily Drucker and The Effective Executive in Action with Peter F. Drucker and recently carried on Drucker’s legacy by revising two existing Drucker books: Management and Management Cases.

Hideki Yamawaki is Professor of Management and Associate Dean at The Drucker School of Management. His most recent book is Japanese Exports and Foreign Direct Investment: Imperfect Competition in International Markets.

Awards

Drucker was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President George W. Bush on July 9, 2002. He also received honors from the governments of Japan and Austria. He was the Honorary Chairman of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, now the Leader to Leader Institute, from 1990 through 2002. In 1969 he was awarded New York University’s highest honor, the NYU Presidential Citation. Harvard Business Review honored Drucker in the spring of 2005 with his seventh McKinsey Award for his article, “What Makes an Effective Executive”, the most awarded to one person. Drucker was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1996. Additionally he holds 25 honorary doctorates from American, Belgian, Czech, English, Spanish and Swiss Universities. (Wikipedia)

The Drucker Centennial Week Celebration

‘The Drucker Centennial Week Celebration’ will kick- off in the month of November, Nov. 2-8, 2009. These celebrations are managed by ‘The Drucker Society’ and ‘The Drucker Academy’ globally. Hence, there will definitely be news about Drucker in major newspaper as these events are supported by lead authors like C.K. Prahalad, Charles Handy, Philip Kotler, Fredmund Malik, Hermann Simon etc. More information about the celebrations could be found in the following website:

http://drucker100.com/

Writings by Drucker include:

• The Practice of Management (1954)
• Managing for Results: Economic Tasks and Risk-Taking Decisions (1964)
• The Effective Executive (1966)
• Management: Tasks, Responsibilities and Practices (1973)
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles (1985)
• Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Practices and Principles (1990)
• The Post-Capitalist Society (1993)
• Managing Oneself, Harvard Business Review, March-April 1999
• The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management (2001)
• The Effective Executive Revised (2002)
• Managing in the Next Society (2002)
• The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done (2004)
• The Effective Executive in Action (2005)
• Classic Drucker (2006)

Writings about Drucker include:

• Peter Drucker: Shaping the Managerial Mind (2002)
• The Definitive Drucker: The Final Word from the Father of Modern Management (2006)
• The Strategic Drucker: Growth Strategies and Marketing Insights from the Works of Peter Drucker (2009)
• Living in More Than One World: How Peter Drucker’s Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life (2009)
• A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World’s Greatest Management Teacher (2009)
• Drucker on Leadership: New Lessons from the Father of Modern Management (2009)