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Coffee House Book Review – “The Drucker Lectures” by Peter F. Drucker

Tanveer Naseer

One of the new features I will be adding to my blog this year is what I’m calling the “Coffee House Book Review”, which will feature reviews on books from the fields of leadership, management, marketing, and other areas of interest to those who are running or managing a business or organization.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

This list includes books that have been selected because they are either extremely popular, frequently referred to, or groundbreaking in business literature. Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. Drucker passed away in 2005. Listed in no particular order. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989).

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

In one of his conversations found on YouTube and posted on January 11, 2010 (the year following his death), Dr. Ackoff provides the following insight about leaders doing the “right and wrong” things in the systems they lead: Peter Drucker said “There’s a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.” References.

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20 Leadership Books You Might Not Have Read

N2Growth Blog

Spending time gleaning insights from the man many refer to as the father of the modern practice of leadership is time well spent. The Essential Drucker - Peter Drucker was the most noted management thinker of his time. If you or your organization struggles with change, then this book needs to be on your reading list.

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Unlock Employee Innovation That Fits with Your Strategy

Harvard Business Review

CEO Zhang Ruimin is highly attuned to major trends sweeping across the global economic landscape, compelling organizations to respond. Given such developments, Zhang believes that organizations should pursue speed, openness, boundarylessness, and value-ecosystem opportunity.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

The section on the profit maximization hypothesis at the end of the introductory chapter of his classic 1988 textbook on industrial organization concludes by saying that even if a firm doesn’t maximize profits, it can be treated, for the purposes of many of its interactions with the outside world, as if it does. Even Tirole betrays this bias.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

The section on the profit maximization hypothesis at the end of the introductory chapter of his classic 1988 textbook on industrial organization concludes by saying that even if a firm doesn’t maximize profits, it can be treated, for the purposes of many of its interactions with the outside world, as if it does. Even Tirole betrays this bias.