Peter F. Drucker Boxed Set (8 Books) (The Drucker Library)

PREFACE

There should be underlying unity to a collection of essays. There should be a point of view, a central theme, an organ point around which the whole volume composes itself. And there is, I believe, such fundamental unity to this volume of essays, even though they date from more than a dozen years ago and discuss a variety of topics. One of the essays, “Work and Tools,” states: “Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works.” This might be the device of this entire volume, if not, indeed, for my entire work over the years.

All the essays in this volume deal with one or the other aspect of what used to be called “the material civilization”: they all deal with man’s tools and his materials, with his institutions and organizations, ...