Skip to Main Content
The Peter F. Drucker Reader
book

The Peter F. Drucker Reader

by Peter F. Drucker, Harvard Business Review
November 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 18m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
Content preview from The Peter F. Drucker Reader

Managing for Business Effectiveness

WHAT IS THE FIRST DUTY—and the continuing responsibility—of the business manager? To strive for the best possible economic results from the resources currently employed or available. Everything else managers may be expected to do, or may want to do, rests on sound economic performance and profitable results over the next few years. Even such lofty management tasks as assessing corporate social responsibilities and cultural opportunities are not exempt from this presupposition. And certainly not exempt, by and large, are the individual manager’s own rewards — money and position.

Accordingly, all business executives spend much, if not all, of their time on the problems of short-run economic performance. They ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

The Daily Drucker

The Daily Drucker

Peter F. Drucker
The CEO Test

The CEO Test

Adam Bryant, Kevin Sharer

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781633692206