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An in-depth look at todayโs most pressing business issues through the eyes of Peter Druckerthe father of modern management โChanneling Peter Drucker to tackle some of this centuryโs most difficult topics, What Would Drucker Do Now? is a veritable treasure trove of fascinating reading. Druckerโs insights were nothing short of remarkable, and Rick Wartzman pays high tribute to that fact while adding a few of his own.โMarshall Goldsmith, author of the New York Times bestsellers MOJO And What Got You Here Wonโt Get You There โRick Wartzman has accomplished what I didnโt think was possible: a tapestry of ideas drawn from Wartzmanโs observations and personal experiences, woven together with the wisdom of the most important management thinker of this or any other age.โ
Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Management, the University of Southern California, and author of the recently published Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership โPeter Druckerโs thinking has had an enduring impact on consumer-driven companies like Macyโs. . . . [ What Would Drucker Do Now? ] serves as a compendium of the very best ideas that can help all of our companies win in a highly competitive marketplace for products, services, and customer experiences.โ
Terry Lundgren, Chairman, President, and CEO, Macyโs Inc. โThis collection of essays . . . will broaden you as a manager, a leader, and as a human being. . . . Rick Wartzman has done the world a great service by collecting the most incisive observations of a beautiful mind and linking them to problems that face leaders and organizations everywhere.โ
Brian Walker, President and CEO, Herman Miller, Inc. โIf Peter Drucker is the master, Rick Wartzman is the prized pupil. Drucker would be delighted to see his theories applied in such a cogent, thoughtful fashion.โ
Jim Weddle, Managing Partner, Edward Jones, and consulting client of Peter Drucker About the Book: As technology, globalization, and business innovation advance at breakneck speed, the question โWhat would Drucker do now?โ becomes more relevant by the day. More than anyone of his time, Peter Drucker understood how the individual, the organization, and society are interrelated. And no one better recognized and articulated the challenges facing all threeor came up with more practical solutions to those challenges. Since 2007, the Drucker Instituteโs executive director, Rick Wartzman, has been asking what Drucker would do on a regular basis in his popular online column for Bloomberg Businessweek . In each piece, Wartzman introduces a current issue and provides a view of it through the eyes of Peter Drucker, based on his deep knowledge of Druckerโs ideas and ideals. What Would Drucker Do Now? culls Wartzmanโs best, most timely columns into a single volume, offering a perspective on business and society you wonโt find anywhere else. Featuring more than 80 articles, the book is organized into seven thematic sections: ISBN:9780071762205
