Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices 改版

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Management: Revised Edition by Peter F. Drucker with Joseph A. Maciariello; Collins, 568 pages, $29.95.

Drucker's management classic is back again, updated

By Bruce Rosenstein, USA TODAY

In this era of soaring food and gas prices, lost homes and the virtual overnight collapse of once-powerful companies, a return to fundamentals is in order. That's what makes the publication of Peter Drucker's Management: Revised Edition so timely. It's a revised and updated edition of his 1973 classic Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, which is also relevant for non-managers who care about where our institutions are headed and what roles they'll play as their careers inevitably change.

Even though much of the text has appeared in previous books and articles, it's valuable to have it logically and coherently codified in one book under the guidance of Joseph Maciariello. Maciariello — of the Drucker School at Claremont Graduate University, in Claremont, Calif. — has collaborated on the last several Drucker books.

Drucker considered management to be a blend of action and contemplation. The words "think" and "thinking through" appear throughout. Managers must take the time to consider what they are doing and just as important, why they are doing it. He produced a vast body of work, nearly 40 books and countless articles, before he died in 2005 at 95. Many of his classic themes are on display, including:

•Management by objectives. Your organization's strategy for the present and future, converted into targets and assignments in such areas as marketing, innovation, human resources, productivity and social responsibility.

•The theory of the business. Collectively, it's the assumptions an organization makes about markets, customers, competitors, technology and other factors that make up its reason for being, or as he bluntly puts it, "what a company gets paid for." If your theory is outdated or no longer valid, you're headed for trouble.

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