the daily drucker

“THE DAILY DRUCKER” BY PETER.F.DRUCKER

Submitted To: Rachna Trivedi

By:Manan Chokshi

Roll no: 09mba005

Publication:Publication: HarperCollinsPublished in 2004Price: U.S $19.95Pages: 429

Author:Drucker is the original

management guru. He's written more than

35 booksIn 2002, President Bush

awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

He had established his own Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif.

BORN: Nov 19 1909,AUSTRAIDIED: Nov 11 2005,U.S.AOCCUPATION: Writer, Professor,Management consultant

Purpose:Identify your own strengthsThen try to improve those strengths, adding

new knowledgeLook for habits that are standing in the wayTry to learn beyond your own field.Finally, from the results of your record of

expectation, effort and accomplishment, try to understand what you should not do.

General ideas:ManagementIndividualChangeSociety

Content: 366 topics , which covers the entire scenario of

the management structure.1jan Integrity in Leadership: Evaluate the

character of the CEO and top management when considering a job offer.

4jan Organizational Inertia: Make sure your nonprofit organization has rigorous tests and yardsticks to measure performance.  

25jan Reinvent Yourself: Ask those ahead of you in age how they went about “re porting themselves.” What steps should you take now?

Contd..17feb Social purpose for society:Define an

organizational purpose that goes beyond next quarter financial results.

19feb Reprivatization:Make a list of which sectors will privatize next and determine how you can benefit.

30apr Psychological insecurity:If your employer cannot provide you with the training and experiences to maintain your employability, consider changing jobs

27june Legitimacy of management:Use your positon of authority to bring out whatever strength there is the people you are responsible for.

29sep Misdirection by specialization:Develop a process whereby each person in the organization understands his/her contribution on to producing the products and services of enterprise.

15dec Respect for the business and values:You should take an acquisition with which you are familiar.

Key components:Managing oneself Reinvent yourselfManaging for the future The purpose of a business

Recommended:It is the book which truely in itself book for

insight and motivation for getting the right things done

It has covered many of the fields – management, business, world economy, a changing society, innovation and entrepreneurship, decision making,the changing workforce, the nonprofits and their management and so on.

So this book would be of great help for the management students inorder learn lessons.

Bibliography:www.druckerinstitute.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_DruckerThe Practice of Management; HarperCollins

1993The End of Economic Man; Transaction

Publishers 1995The Future of Industrial Man; Transaction

Publishers 1995The Effective Executive; HarperCollins 2002

“thank you”