Doing the Right Things Right

CONCLUSIONThe Evolving Business of Business

Few scholars have contributed more to business theory than Peter F. Drucker, the Austrian-born management consultant who turned the eye of a social scientist onto America’s favorite pastime—business. Business drives the engine of our progress and has for more than a century.

With the publication of The Effective Executive in 1967, Drucker codified the basics of modern business productivity. He put into print the best of the strategies businesses had invented in the twentieth century to adapt to constantly shifting technological and social change.

The Effective Executive has remained in print and constant use since its publication almost fifty years ago, and rightly so. Few business references have served ...