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With Drucker's full cooperation and assistance, Beatty (an NPR commentator and Atlantic Monthly senior editor) mixes bits of previous interviews and passages from his subject's voluminous writings with personal analysis to explore the range of his always provocative views on business, government, nonprofits, and the future. Beginning with the experiences in Europe during World War I that ultimately shaped Drucker as a writer, Beatty looks into themes like fascism, freedom, decentralization, and bureaucracy while tracing the transformation of Drucker from political scientist to management theorist. In combination with other particularly interesting observations, like those on Drucker's prescient prediction of a "new world economy" and his defining conceptualization of both privatization and "knowledge workers," the book serves to whet one's appetite for a bigger helping of the master's works--many of which, fortunately, remain in print. --Howard Rothman
From Library Journal
For more than 50 years, prolific thinker Drucker (Managing in a Time of Great Change, LJ 10/15/95) has studied business organizations. Among his many accomplishments, he is credited with starting the discipline of management. Beatty, a senior editor at the Atlantic Monthly, a frequent venue for Drucker's writings, evaluates Drucker's thought through a chronological review of his major books. Beatty clearly admires much of Drucker's insight and prescience, but he does not let that blind him to his subject's occasional missteps in interpretation or fact. At times he veers beyond a discussion of management into the dismal science of economics, yet the writing is still clear and understandable from the high school level on up. This is the first book on Drucker in ten years and a good survey of a major late 20th-century thinker. Although he is not now as well known as certain more faddish management gurus, there is more substance here. Recommended for circulating collections in public libraries and strongly recommended for two-year and other academic libraries.?Patrick J. Brunet, Western Wisconsin Technical Coll. Lib., La Crosse
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lewis
Drucker's work teams with ... ironies and surprises, and it was a bright idea of Jack Beatty's to try to make sense of all of them at once. Beatty ... has composed a fine intellectual profile. Necessarily this means that the book ignores all but the bare outlines of Drucker's long life. It is short on biography--and legwork--and long on literature. But what literature! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The Boston Globe, Peter G. Gosselin
To be sure, Beatty does criticize Drucker at times. But in the final pages, as it becomes obvious that Drucker's grand hopes for the corporation are not panning out and that profits are, after all, the prime mover, he pulls his punches. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
These days, new management theories turn up as frequently as new diet crazes. They don't always deliver on their promises and sometimes do more harm than good. This is why Drucker is all the more remarkable. For well more than a half-century, in 29 books and hundreds of landmark articles and lectures, he has been dispensing his time-tested wisdom. Nearly two dozen years ago, John Tarrant detailed the philosophical foundations of Drucker's social, economic, and management theories in Drucker: The Man Who Invented Corporate Society (1976), and Drucker himself offered insights in a collection of reminiscences and observations entitled Adventures of a Bystander (1979). But his output has not abated, and Beatty now brings us up to date and provides a grand summary in this extended essay. Beatty is a senior editor at the Atlantic, which has featured some of Drucker's work. He begins with a biographical portrait, considers Drucker's writing technique, and looks at Drucker's individual works. This is a necessary acquisition for every business collection. David Rouse --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Kirkus Reviews
A slim volume by a senior editor of the Atlantic about the legendary figure who invented the business of management and whose theories profoundly influenced modern American corporations, including General Motors. Viennese-born Peter Drucker grew up during WW I and credits Herbert Hoover's generous overseas food programs with saving his life. This early admiration for such an organization, Beatty argues, foreshadows Drucker's lifelong appreciation of the creative possibilities of business. Drucker himself got off to a creative start by working full-time and attending only the end-of-term exams at law school (he passed easily). Having fled Vienna when the Nazis rose to power, in London he heard John Maynard Keynes lecture, hated it, and began to develop his own unique sense of economics. His ideas reached fruition in his landmark 1945 study of General Motors, The Concept of the Corporation. The book stated what management should be--and made clear how far GM had strayed from that ideal. In his numerous other books, Drucker proposed a number of radical (for their times) notions, among them the suggestion that pay for managers should be no more than 20 times that of workers and that fancy job titles should not be substituted for real responsibility and higher wages. He also believed that the study of business was akin to a scientific study of the human condition. Drucker's ideas helped shape the dramatic expansion of American industry in the postWW II period and influenced worldwide thinking about business. While Drucker comes across as brilliant and wry, this study is not the best introduction to the man or his work. Beatty seems more concerned with Drucker's books and some of his opinions than with his life, and the endless snippets of quotes and reviews make for a messy and somewhat unreadable collage. Written with Drucker's cooperation, a loving portrait of a distinguished life that fails to measure up to its subject. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Commentary, Leslie Lenkowsky
Drucker is almost universally regarded as the foremost thinker on corporate management, a field that many of his followers credit him with having invented. Beatty's own approving take is that Drucker is first and foremost a "moralist" who, by examining not the flow of money but the values, relationships, and quality of economic life, has "take[n] the capital out of capitalism." Beatty not unexpectedly endorses Drucker's recent expressions of pessimism about corporate capitalism.
But what are we to make of that pessimism? Given Drucker's track record, his views deserve a serious hearing. Still, it is difficult not to consider them an overreaction, colored perhaps by his own encounter as a young man with the fateful consequences of economic collapse.
It would seem that modern capitalism has won a far greater degree of popular support than even its friends have supposed. In exchange for a rising standard of living, the public appears willing to tolerate the high corporate salaries, plant closings, downsizings, and other phenomena that so dismay critics. Although the day may yet come when popular opinion turns on the corporation, for now, the productive if morally imperfect industrial giants that Peter Drucker has done so much to explicate, and whose practices he has done so much to refine, continue to prove extraordinarily capable of providing the things that ordinary people want. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
Thomas P. Glynn Chief Operating Officer of Partners HealthCare System A useful and thought-provoking guide for managers to the ideas of America's premier management innovator -- Peter Drucker. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
编辑推荐 Amazon.com Review
Over a remarkable 60-year career, Peter Drucker has written the book on management theory, executive advice, and various aspects of social and political thought. He's also penned a monthly editorial-page column for the Wall Street Journal, contributed to publications ranging from The Economist and the Harvard Business Review to Forbes and Esquire, taught at several major universities, lectured worldwide by satellite, consulted for leading global corporations, and still found time to write two novels. His impact on individual and corporate philosophy has truly been astounding, so much so that it's often difficult to grasp its full scope. Jack Beatty's The World According to Peter Drucker is up to the task, however, offering a satisfying examination of his ongoing legacy for followers as well as a great introduction to specific works for neophytes.
With Drucker's full cooperation and assistance, Beatty (an NPR commentator and Atlantic Monthly senior editor) mixes bits of previous interviews and passages from his subject's voluminous writings with personal analysis to explore the range of his always provocative views on business, government, nonprofits, and the future. Beginning with the experiences in Europe during World War I that ultimately shaped Drucker as a writer, Beatty looks into themes like fascism, freedom, decentralization, and bureaucracy while tracing the transformation of Drucker from political scientist to management theorist. In combination with other particularly interesting observations, like those on Drucker's prescient prediction of a "new world economy" and his defining conceptualization of both privatization and "knowledge workers," the book serves to whet one's appetite for a bigger helping of the master's works--many of which, fortunately, remain in print. --Howard Rothman
From Library Journal
For more than 50 years, prolific thinker Drucker (Managing in a Time of Great Change, LJ 10/15/95) has studied business organizations. Among his many accomplishments, he is credited with starting the discipline of management. Beatty, a senior editor at the Atlantic Monthly, a frequent venue for Drucker's writings, evaluates Drucker's thought through a chronological review of his major books. Beatty clearly admires much of Drucker's insight and prescience, but he does not let that blind him to his subject's occasional missteps in interpretation or fact. At times he veers beyond a discussion of management into the dismal science of economics, yet the writing is still clear and understandable from the high school level on up. This is the first book on Drucker in ten years and a good survey of a major late 20th-century thinker. Although he is not now as well known as certain more faddish management gurus, there is more substance here. Recommended for circulating collections in public libraries and strongly recommended for two-year and other academic libraries.?Patrick J. Brunet, Western Wisconsin Technical Coll. Lib., La Crosse
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
These days, new management theories turn up as frequently as new diet crazes. They don't always deliver on their promises and sometimes do more harm than good. This is why Drucker is all the more remarkable. For well more than a half-century, in 29 books and hundreds of landmark articles and lectures, he has been dispensing his time-tested wisdom. Nearly two dozen years ago, John Tarrant detailed the philosophical foundations of Drucker's social, economic, and management theories in Drucker: The Man Who Invented Corporate Society (1976), and Drucker himself offered insights in a collection of reminiscences and observations entitled Adventures of a Bystander (1979). But his output has not abated, and Beatty now brings us up to date and provides a grand summary in this extended essay. Beatty is a senior editor at the Atlantic, which has featured some of Drucker's work. He begins with a biographical portrait, considers Drucker's writing technique, and looks at Drucker's individual works. This is a necessary acquisition for every business collection. David Rouse --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Kirkus Reviews
A slim volume by a senior editor of the Atlantic about the legendary figure who invented the business of management and whose theories profoundly influenced modern American corporations, including General Motors. Viennese-born Peter Drucker grew up during WW I and credits Herbert Hoover's generous overseas food programs with saving his life. This early admiration for such an organization, Beatty argues, foreshadows Drucker's lifelong appreciation of the creative possibilities of business. Drucker himself got off to a creative start by working full-time and attending only the end-of-term exams at law school (he passed easily). Having fled Vienna when the Nazis rose to power, in London he heard John Maynard Keynes lecture, hated it, and began to develop his own unique sense of economics. His ideas reached fruition in his landmark 1945 study of General Motors, The Concept of the Corporation. The book stated what management should be--and made clear how far GM had strayed from that ideal. In his numerous other books, Drucker proposed a number of radical (for their times) notions, among them the suggestion that pay for managers should be no more than 20 times that of workers and that fancy job titles should not be substituted for real responsibility and higher wages. He also believed that the study of business was akin to a scientific study of the human condition. Drucker's ideas helped shape the dramatic expansion of American industry in the postWW II period and influenced worldwide thinking about business. While Drucker comes across as brilliant and wry, this study is not the best introduction to the man or his work. Beatty seems more concerned with Drucker's books and some of his opinions than with his life, and the endless snippets of quotes and reviews make for a messy and somewhat unreadable collage. Written with Drucker's cooperation, a loving portrait of a distinguished life that fails to measure up to its subject. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
Drucker is almost universally regarded as the foremost thinker on corporate management, a field that many of his followers credit him with having invented. Beatty's own approving take is that Drucker is first and foremost a "moralist" who, by examining not the flow of money but the values, relationships, and quality of economic life, has "take[n] the capital out of capitalism." Beatty not unexpectedly endorses Drucker's recent expressions of pessimism about corporate capitalism.
But what are we to make of that pessimism? Given Drucker's track record, his views deserve a serious hearing. Still, it is difficult not to consider them an overreaction, colored perhaps by his own encounter as a young man with the fateful consequences of economic collapse.
It would seem that modern capitalism has won a far greater degree of popular support than even its friends have supposed. In exchange for a rising standard of living, the public appears willing to tolerate the high corporate salaries, plant closings, downsizings, and other phenomena that so dismay critics. Although the day may yet come when popular opinion turns on the corporation, for now, the productive if morally imperfect industrial giants that Peter Drucker has done so much to explicate, and whose practices he has done so much to refine, continue to prove extraordinarily capable of providing the things that ordinary people want. -- Commentary, Leslie Lenkowsky
Drucker's work teams with ... ironies and surprises, and it was a bright idea of Jack Beatty's to try to make sense of all of them at once. Beatty ... has composed a fine intellectual profile. Necessarily this means that the book ignores all but the bare outlines of Drucker's long life. It is short on biography--and legwork--and long on literature. But what literature! -- The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lewis
Thomas P. Glynn Chief Operating Officer of Partners HealthCare System A useful and thought-provoking guide for managers to the ideas of America's premier management innovator -- Peter Drucker. -- Review
To be sure, Beatty does criticize Drucker at times. But in the final pages, as it becomes obvious that Drucker's grand hopes for the corporation are not panning out and that profits are, after all, the prime mover, he pulls his punches. -- The Boston Globe, Peter G. Gosselin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
