Peter Drucker

Drucker, Peter F. Managing in a Time of Great Change. New York Truman TaUey Books/Dutton, 1995. 

Drucker, Peter F. Post-Capitalist Society. New York HarperCollins, 1993. 

Drucker, Peter F. (1993), Concept of the Corporation , Transaction Publishers, ISBN 978-1560006251. 

Drucker, Peter F with Maciariello, Joseph A., The Daily Drucker 365 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done, HarperBusiness, New York, 2004. 

Drucker, Peter. 1959. Landmarks of Tomorrow. New York Harper. 

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Drucker, Peter, The Emerging Theory of Manufacturing, Harvard Business Review, May/June... 

Drucker, Peter. The Ecological Vision Reflections on the American Condition. New Brunswick, N.J. Transaction, 1993. 

Let us start with Peter Drucker who has written a book entitled The Effective E ecudjve- (see Box 1,1). Drucker sees effectiveness very much from the perspective of the total corporation or organization. It is the managers of that corporation as a whole who have to ensure, through their shared vision of a common goal, that what is done by management and other employees at all levels contributes to overall effectiveness. 

To develop as a manager you have to attend to both the personal and professional sides - who you are as well as what you know and can do. Peter Drucker has observed that development is always self-development (1989 184). An educational course in, say, marketing, finance, personnel, operations scheduling, quality management, economics, business policy or business ethics will develop you personally as well as intellectually. New understanding is a transforming experience. 

I would like to begin my remarks with an industrial perspective on the critical role of innovation. Everyone would agree with Peter Drucker s statement Innovation is the fuel of corporate longevity. It endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. ... 

The highly esteemed management professor Peter Drucker once said, Success is more likely to result from the systematic pursuit of opportunities than from a flash of genius. I will discuss the systematic pursuit of innovation used at ExxonMobil Chemical Company to increase the yield from basic science to commercialization. Although innovation is thought of as an inherently fuzzy process, my role in the last 5 to 10 years of my 35-year career has been to add a fair amount of structure and discipline to the process of innovation. Some of our best practices will be shared. 

We may now return to the question of what may really be happening in the chemical industry to change the character of its innovative activities. It is a function of the above realities and the developing political-economic climate of the last 20 years, and has been extremely well summarized by Professor Peter Drucker as follows (remarks in brackets are mine) ... 

Service queility and customer satisfaction are not new constructs. As early as the mid-1960s, Peter Drucker, the original management guru, prescribed the following questions for till businesses Who is your customer What is the essence of your business What does your customer veilue And how can your business serve the customer better than the competition ... 

To establish what I believe are the paramount requirements of those having responsibility for operations, those with whom we are to participate in meeting their goals, I will refer to two highly respected writers Peter F. Drucker and W. Edwards Deming. Both of these authors have had a major influence on my understanding of management concepts and practices. 

In the world of management gurus, however, there is no debate. Peter Drucker is undisputed alpha male. He is also one of the few thinkers from any discipline who can claim to have changed the world he is the inventor of privatization, the apostle of a new class of knowledge workers, the champion of management as a serious intellectual discipline [p. 63]. 

Peter F. Dmcker, The Daily Drucker, Harper Business, New York, 2004. 

Management by Objectives" (MBO) was outlined by Peter Drucker in 1954 in his book. The Practice of Management The MBO technique relies on defining objectives for each employee and then comparing their performance against the objectives. The objectives can be shaped by the "SMART" technique, in which goals and objectives are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-based. 

OHS to become famihar with some of the management literature (e.g. Peter Drucker s... 

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