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Article: The Birth of Business Innovation: "The Essential Drucker: Selections from the Management Works of Peter F. Drucker" Peter F. Drucker HarperCollins New York, NY 2001 349 pages, $30.00. (Required Reading).
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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There are several reasons why Peter Drucker remains an unusual resource. First, in 1970 he correctly predicted the direction business would take for the remainder of the 20th Century. Second, he rose from a business reporter to become the foremost consultant to Fortune 500 companies. At the height of his career he consulted to half the industrializing nations on the planet.
Finally, just three of Drucker's many books--"The Effective Executive," "The Age of Discontinuity" and "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices"--are classic books for business. They were not only brilliantly conceived, but also they were written with a touch of genius. Not bad for a ...