Our staff has selected the following readings for the depth and breadth of the insights they offer.
Drucker on the individual
- “Managing Oneself”
- “My Life as a Knowledge Worker”
- “Revitalizing Oneself” (Copyright © 2008 by the Peter F. Drucker Literary Trust. Posted with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.)
- “What Makes an Effective Executive”
Drucker on organizations
- “The Discipline of Innovation”
- “The Nonprofit Drucker” (free audio download)
- “Really Reinventing Government”
- “The Theory of the Business”
- “What Business Can Learn from Nonprofits”
- Writings from The Wall Street Journal
Drucker on society
- “The Next Society,” The Economist
- “The New Demographics,” The Economist
- “The New Workforce,” The Economist
- “The Manufacturing Paradox,” The Economist
- “Will the Corporation Survive?,” The Economist
- “The Way Ahead,” The Economist
More about Peter Drucker
- Peter Drucker’s Life and Legacy: Hailed by BusinessWeek as “the man who invented management,” Drucker directly influenced a huge number of leaders from a wide range of organizations across all sectors of society.
- Drucker’s Career Timeline and Bibliography: From his birth in Vienna in 1909 to his death in Claremont in 2005
- Tributes to Drucker: Including Jim Collins on why “Peter Drucker contributed more to the triumph of freedom and free society over totalitarianism than anyone in the 20th century, including perhaps Winston Churchill”
- Books by Drucker: All 39 of his books as well as his monographs, other works and publications to which he was a contributing writer
- Books About Drucker: Personal and intellectual biographies, memoirs by Drucker’s former students and books on management that are rooted primarily and explicitly in Drucker’s work