Migliori Libri di Peter F. Drucker

Il mondo del lavoro contemporaneo offre più opportunità rispetto a qualunque epoca precedente: chi possiede ambizione, grinta e intelligenza può salire ai vertici della professione che ha scelto, indipendentemente dal livello di partenza. Ma l’opportunità porta con sé la responsabilità. Le aziende di oggi non si curano di gestire la carriera dei propri collaboratori; i lavoratori della conoscenza devono essere, a tutti gli effetti, gli amministratori delegati di se stessi. E, per farlo bene, è indispensabile coltivare una profonda comprensione di se stessi. “Gestire se stessi” ripropone in un formato inedito due saggi di Drucker, andando alla ricerca delle chiavi che permettono di gestire al meglio la propria carriera e di esercitare una leadership solida e illuminata nei confronti dei propri collaboratori.

Classic Advice for Today’s Management Challenges Peter F. Drucker’s timeless thinking on management–distilled in this series of concise essays–examines the basic questions and issues that managers face. In rapidly changing times, Drucker’s legendary wisdom is even more vitally relevant, going beyond traditional thinking to insights of enduring value. The ideas and themes of this easy-to-read guide are based on direct experience and knowledge from Drucker’s years as adviser to large corporations, entrepreneurial start-ups, government and nonprofit agencies, and public institutions. They are eminently practical and resonate profoundly with the challenges managers face today. Drucker offers insight and advice on perennial management issues such as: people decisions resource allocation productivity challenges innovation and risk management and other essential management topics Filled with classic, evergreen advice–“There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer”–Peter F. Drucker on Management Essentials is widely regarded as the “gold standard” for managers. Notable Quotes from Peter F. Drucker: “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” “Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.” “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” “Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.” “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”

Managing for Results demonstrates Drucker’s particular genius for breaking through conventional outlooks and opening up new perspectives for ultimate profits in the world of business. What must be done to make the organization perform, prosper and grow – what the executive, the maker of decisions, must do to move the enterprise forward – is the subject of this book. It will be of great value to students of management as well as executives in industry and commerce, and it deals skilfully and perceptively with economic tasks which every business has to tackle in order to achieve sound performance and economic results.

With Peter Drucker’s five essential questions and the help of five of today’s thought leaders, this little book will challenge readers to take a close look at the very heart of their organizations and what drives them. A tool for self-assessment and transformation, answering these five questions will fundamentally change the way you work, helping you lead your organization to an exceptional level of performance. Peter Drucker’s five questions are: What is our Mission ? with Jim Collins Who is our Customer ? with Phil Kotler What does the Customer Value ? with Jim Kouzes What are our Results ? with Judith Rodin What is our Plan ? with V. Kasturi Rangan These essential questions, grounded in Peter Drucker’s theories of management, will take readers on a exploration of organizational and personal self-discovery, giving them a means to assess how to be –how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values and courage. The questions lead to action. By asking these questions, readers can focus on why they are doing what they are doing in their work, and how to do it better. Designed for today’s busy professionals, this brief, clear and accessible book will challenge readers to ask these provocative questions and it will stimulate spirited discussions and action within any organization, inspiring positive change and new levels of excellence, helping all to envision the future of theirs’ or any organization.