Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 430 g
New Institutions, New Theories and Practices
Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 430 g
ISBN: 978-3-9810228-6-5
Verlag: Verlag Sordon
This 100th anniversary anthology is dedicated to Peter Drucker, the grand master of management. The insightful, exciting and path breaking articles deal with Drucker’s life, influence, legacy; and the long-term effects of his profound ideas and thinking. What is Drucker’s impact on the next management? In what ways has his thinking influenced current management practices and society?
Peter Drucker defined for the first time the principles of management and cleared the ground for the establishment of a rigorous new discipline. In as early as 1954 he wrote in the Practice of Management: “a manager sets objectives, a manager organizes, motivates and communicates; a manager establishes measuring yardsticks and develops people” – axioms that are relevant and very much operational to this day.
Authors from four continents - eight from America, nine from Europe, and six from Asia and the Arabian Peninsula - discuss why it is important to continue on the innovative trail Drucker built for the management discipline; and how his thinking can be applied for energizing the leadership of the 21st century business and society.
Weitere Infos & Material
Peter F. Drucker’s Next Management:
New Institutions, New Theories and Practices
Editors’ Preface 9
Part I
Why Management Thinkers like Peter Drucker
are so influential?
Winfried W. Weber 15
Part II
Introduction to Peter Drucker’s Management Philosophy
Fredmund Malik: Peter F. Drucker, the Discoverer of Management 33
Winfried W. Weber: Peter Drucker - the Down-to-earth Management 44
Thinker
Part III
Appraisals
Charles Handy: What Drucker Taught Me 59
Hermann Simon: Man of the Past, Man of the Future - 64
A Personal Homage
Part IV
The Practice of Management
Wesley Balda: There is no Such Thing as Leadership - Conversations 73
with Peter Drucker
Greg Berman: Court Reform, Non-profit Management and the Writings 78
of Peter Drucker. Lessons from the Center for Court Innovation
William A. Cohen: Drucker’s Most Important Lesson 89
Hermann Doppler: Peter Drucker’s key principles are more 97
relevant than ever
Elizabeth Haas Edersheim, Young-Chul Chang: Business as an 102
Innovative Agent of Change
Guenter Faltin: Entrepreneurship as an Innovative Process - 116
about Initial Ideas, Concept-Creative Founders,
and the Entrepreneurial Society
Philip Kotler: Peter Drucker - The Grandfather of Modern Marketing 123
Gladius Kulothungan: Peter Drucker and the Emergence 135
of Maternalist Capitalism
M.S.S. El Namaki: The Credit Crisis - Leaders who have Failed the 143
Drucker Test
Bruce Rosenstein: Living in More Than One World - Peter Drucker 154
and Self-Development for Knowledge Workers
Thomas Sattelberger: Appreciated in Principle – Disregarded in Practice. 158
Why Peter F. Drucker is relevant today!
Siu-Ki Henry To: The Meaning of Peter Drucker to Chinese Executives 168
Rick Wartzman: The Drucker Challenge - Turning Ideas into Results 173
Part V
Peter Drucker’s Next Management
Dirk Baecker: Peter Drucker’s Paradoxical Intervention 183
Janis Bragan Balda: Drucker’s One Thing 191
Ulrich Klotz: Open Source Practices as a Precursor to Peter Drucker's 195
Next Society
Atsuo Ueda, Yasushi Isaka: Management as a Bridge between Culture 202
and Civilization: A Philosophical Framework for the Next Century
Winfried W. Weber: Managing in the Era of Complexity - 216
Peter Drucker’s Landmarks
Winfried W. Weber: Peter Drucker’s Next Management - Ten Memos 223
About the Authors 232
Bibliography 245
Preface
No one else on the planet has left an imprint on management to rival that of Peter Drucker (1909-2005). He numbers among the most important management thinkers not only in America and Europe, but also in many countries of Asia. And his ideas continue to exercise a huge influence on the business world right up to today. In fact, many people maintain that “Management” itself is Drucker’s own discovery. Yet for all this, he did nothing more than originally formulate what this discipline’s tasks actually are, what you have to do to learn them and why they have become so centrally significant for modern society. He was a cosmopolitan, Viennese by birth, holder of a doctorate in law from the University of Frankfurt and the world’s first professor of management from 1950 on in New York, and he became an advisor to many significant 20th century leaders in America, Europe and Asia. In this book, we aim to recog-nise the 100th anniversary of his birth - 19th November 2009 - by posing the questions: What does he still have to tell us today? What have we learned from him? Which of his ideas still hold good?
Peter Drucker has not only shaped our current understanding of management these days. Beyond that, he has greatly influenced how modern organisations develop all around the world today. Jack Beatty, one of the editors-in-chief at the renowned US magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, even goes so far as to maintain: “It is not really an exaggeration to say that the way we understand the world today is a result of Peter Drucker’s thinking.” (own translation) So if, in Drucker, we are dealing with a Great Mind, then nowadays we would perforce find indexes of his thinking everywhere.
Drucker was one of the first thinkers to analyse a phenomenon scarcely understood before his time, namely the mass expansion of the management profession, and to set out the tasks of this new discipline in so many words, the first to formulate them, then. In 1954 he sketches the tasks of a manager in five points: a manager sets up goals, a manager organises, a manager motivates and com-municates, a manager assesses results and a manager develops and brings people on, not least themselves. And in the same year, he writes about management that, “rarely in history has a new institu-tion proved itself so indispensable in so short a time. And still rarer is a new institution capable of establishing itself with so little oppo-sition, unrest and controversy.” (own translation)
Every organisation – every car manufacturer, every hospital, every theatre and every government department is managed today. And the practitioners of management do their managing today by observing how their decisions affect staff, customers and competi-tors and by observing how other managers do it. What you then do practically as a manager needs a handy formulation; you talk about Leadership by agreed Goals, you direct Profit Centers, motivate knowledge workers, decentralise structures, do things right (efficiency) and do the right things (effectiveness) or you improve customer orientation. Readers will already have guessed: all concepts from Drucker’s mental labora-tory.
To commemorate his 100th birthday, we are celebrating the exceptional life of this researcher and advisor by bringing together a group of authors from various disciplines and completely different perspectives in an attempt to represent the dynamism of that life. The authors come from various areas of society. People with leader-ship experience and academics, all with varying backgrounds in the commercial world, in non-profit organisations and in the public sector, are tackling Peter Drucker’s ideas in this commemorative collection. They recollect the impulses they gained from his books, his lectures and from conversations with him. They describe how he affected both those in leadership positions and society at large, re-capitulate his most important ideas and discuss the most important outcomes from these. To conclude, our authors will make so bold as to presage what out of Drucker’s thinking will stand the test of time and how his thinking will influence what comes next in man-agement.
The first section deals with the question as to why management thinkers like Peter Drucker are so influential. In the second and third sections, we introduce Drucker’s thinking and complement it with two personal appreciations. A few of this book’s authors be-long to the network of Peter Drucker Societies, which has formed in almost twenty countries since Drucker’s death four years ago. In these societies, it is usually management practitioners who gather to discuss the question: “How do you work with Drucker’s ideas?” This question also brackets the book’s fourth and fifth sections. In the sixth section, our authors set out for readers the reasons why it will be worth engaging with Peter Drucker’s concepts in the “next society” too
One day, we will have to write the history of Peter Drucker’s in-fluence on society. This volume renders one of its most important aspects visible already. Eleven authors from America, ten from Europe and six from Asia and the Arabian Peninsula are writing on management’s perspectives now that it has become a truly global discipline. Drucker’s models have laid the foundations for this de-velopment and here they have brought together practitioners from all regions of the world.
Winfried Weber and Gladius Kulothungan
Mannheim and London, March 2010
