Management - Tasks Responsibilities Practices

About this book

Tasks Responsibilities Practices Management is an organized body of knowledge. "This book " in Peter Druckers words "tries to equip the manager with the understanding the thinking the knowledge and the skills for todays and also tomorrows jobs." This management classic has been developed and tested during more than thirty years of teaching management in universities in executive programs and seminars and through the authors close work with managers as a consultant for large and small businesses government agencies hospitals and schools. Drucker discusses the tools and techniques of successful management practice that have been proven effective and he makes them meaningful and easily accessible. Author Peter F. Drucker was born in 1909 in Vienna and was educated there and in England. He received his doctorate in public and international law while working as a newspaper reporter in Frankfurt Germany and then worked as an economist for an international bank in London. In 1927 he came to the United States. Druckers management books and analyses of economics and society are widely read and respected throughout the world and have been translated into more than 20 languages. He also has written a lively autobiography two novels and several volumes of essays. He has been a frequent contributor to various magazines and journals over the years and is an editorial columnist for The Wall Street Journal. Drucker has four children and six grandchildren. A hiker and student of Japan and Japanese art he lives with his wife Doris in Claremont California.