Management

Revised Edition

By: Peter F. Drucker

Narrated by: Sam Tsoutsouvas

Length: 19 hrs and 55 mins

Publisher's summary

The essential book on management from the man who invented the discipline. Now completely revised and updated for the first time.

©2008 Peter F. Drucker Literary Estate (P)2008 HarperCollins Publishers

Excellent foundation for the study of management

As a long time business owner recently concerning myself more with the formal study of management, this book is not as hands-on practical as others I have read on the subject, including Drucker’s first, The Effective Executive—But if you’re of the school of thought that a broad, historical and general survey of a topic is the best foundation for further practical study, it’s hard to imagine a better option on which to build that foundation.

First listen knowing there’s so much more to learn and the next listen/read

First listen knowing there’s so much more to learn and the next listen/read.
Ao much of what I got out of the book was an awareness of what it is and what aint. So the next read through will be focusing on implementing the tactics laid out in the book.
This is a text book to be studied and referenced, so I bought the hardcopy.
It’s a dry performance but I listen on fast speed and after a bit it just works.

Thorough and timeless

The only text you need for a management degree! This is a must read for a leader or manager or anyone serious about pursuing effective management.

Not slick, not sexy--just sane and sound

Just about anything Peter Drucker ever wrote is worth reading and usually worth re-reading. However, there are two advisory notes about this audiobook. First, the text is not an update of Drucker's 1973 classic, "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices," which is the closest thing to the one essential management book I know of. It's a compilation assembled from parts of that book and various articles he wrote in the 1980s and 1990s. Second, the narrator has a pompous, lecturing tone that quickly grows old. It's taken me months to finish this, because I can't stand listening to him for more than 30 minutes or so. What a pity they couldn't find a reader who understood that audiobooks are listened to by individuals, not by lecture halls.

Best book ever

What can you say? It's Drucker's great work! I found the audio book better than the written book.

Amazing

You only come across a book this good every five or six years. This is the kind of book that completely shifts your perspective on work, your career, and the people around you. I would recommend everyone read this book.

All you need to know about Management

The breadth of knowledge, advice, and explanations about topics in management is impressive. The breakdown of steps to follow in various situations is very helpful.

This is a must read for anyone serious about being a great manager, especially in the era of the knowledge worker.

Timeless Wisdom from Peter Drucker's Management Insights

Peter Drucker's text on management offers a comprehensive exploration of effective management principles, emphasizing the importance of setting clear objectives, fostering innovation, and understanding the dynamics of human behavior in organizations. The book's strengths lie in its timeless relevance, practical advice, and its foundational role in shaping modern management practices. Drucker's insightful analysis and clear articulation make it an indispensable resource for managers seeking to enhance their leadership skills and organizational performance.


1. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

2. The best way to predict the future is to create it.

3. There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

4. Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

5. The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

6. What gets measured gets managed.

7. Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

8. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.

9. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

10. Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

For very patient people only

Although I have really tried, I was not able to finish the entire book. Apart from the fact that the reader's voice is a bit annoying, the author likes to hammer every point thoroughly by repetition... over and over again. This book could potentially be 90% shorter by removing repetition. There are a few interesting points in this book to be honest, but it just doesn't justify the time spent reading it.

Unlistenable

What a mistake! I found the narration on this to be simply horrible. I frequently listen to highly complex texts on audio, so the material was not challenging, but the voices were. Find something else to listen to. I really love the quality of audible's narrators, but this beyond the pale.