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Title: Adventures of a Bystander by Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Managem ISBN: 0-471-24739-1 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 04 February, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.73 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A gem, the best one could hope for in discovering Drucker.
Comment: Wonderful and a joy to read for anyone interested in the life and times of one of our best and among our first great management consultants. Drucker's stories are so enlightening in both a historical context and in terms of the develoment of the profession of management. Nothing has so thrilled me in appreciating this short history of western industrial civilization from the eyes of this original thinker. I review 10-20 books a year for different professional management journals but this is one of the most enjoyable as well as educational book I have ever read. Far beyond the work of Tom Peters and other known pundits, this is the work of a man with experience that easily transcends six decades. In a world of rush, rush and fads ad nauseaum this work is full of wisdom. Few other books would satisfy as well for anyone wanting to know about the man, his times and the forces that have created the management profession. Please tell Peter to get this book out to a wider audience and to bring several hundred copies to the 1998 Academy of Management meetings in San Diego this summer and I will try to bring my copy for his signature. This is the one book I have gotten up in the middle of the night to read just for the pure pleasure of reading. In fact last night at 4:30am I had to circle his commentary of "self governing workplace communities" so that in my own work I dont fail to cite the original source of ideas that many of us are researching and talking about today. Peter was only 50 years ahead of the field on this theme and I personally hope he will be around to help us develop these ideas for the next half century. ken
Rating: 5
Summary: "Drucker isn't just a bystander, he's more an adventurer."
Comment: The Chinese have a proverb "first we have people who can recognise good horses, then we can have 1000-mile horses", suggesting wonderful things are everywhere, it only takes one who can appreciate wonders.
Drucker, in his unlikely autobiography, introduced some interesting and unforgettable characters at his times, entertains, educates and empowers us to think there are always equally interesting and unforgettable souls at our times, and probably at all times.
An enjoyable experience to have read this book, and more enjoyable experience when we can learn from him the passion and depth in appreciate people around us.
highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: ....every page of this book reward rereading.
Comment: Drucker's most captivating book, Adventures of a Bystander, is a dynamic memoir of the singular Americans and Europeans of Drucker's life. They include Fritz Kraemer, the historian who "invented" Henry Kissinger; Reinhold Hensch, a newspaper editor so mediocre his only career path was to become the "monster" of the Third Reich; John L. Lewis, Marshall McLuhan, and the visionary early chiefs of General Motors. (Yes, General Motors.) Most importantly, you meet Peter Drucker, whose offhand insights into the world surrounding his characters make every page of this book reward rereading. ....
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Title: The Essential Drucker : The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management by Peter F. Drucker ISBN: 006093574X Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter F. Drucker ISBN: 0887306187 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 26 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Concept of the Corporation by Peter F. Drucker ISBN: 1560006250 Publisher: Transaction Pub Pub. Date: June, 1993 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Managing in the Next Society by Peter F. Drucker ISBN: 0312289774 Publisher: Truman Talley Books Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Management Challenges for the 21st Century by Peter F. Drucker ISBN: 0887309992 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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