Admittedly it is very late and short, but I have a lot of material to cover and my precis would end up paraphrasing my rough draft if I go into any more detail. There is a lot of material for the paper so it should be of a reasonable length.
The Essential of Drucker by Peter Drucker focuses on three major aspects of the idea of management: the management, the individual, and the society. These three elements together bring about a managerial environment which Drucker intends to analyze and yield its most efficient form. Each aspect covers a tremendous amount of ground and hold many intricacies so I will focus my book review to The Individual.
The reason for limiting the discussion to a single theme is that I find that I can relate to many topics that Drucker covers in this section. Each chapter in this theme develops another aspect of the individual's responsibilities.
Effectiveness must be learned
Focus on Contribution
Know your strength and values
Know your time
Effective Decisions
Functioning Communications
Leadership as work
Principles of Innovation
The second half of your life
The Educated Person
I would like to focus on each chapter and first discuss Drucker's principles. Then I will give a few examples of current practices in large corporate organizations and maybe compare them to University related issues from a student perspective. Finally I'll share a few personal experiences and tie in the material to what we discussed in class.
Although this is only one small section of the book, there are many examples to delve into and several connections that can be made. For example, the Functioning Communications chapter ties in closely with the CIO interview. Effective Decisions can be tied to Better, regarding the polio eradication incident.
I will explore Drucker's ideas in detail and then attempt to branch out into real life situations, give examples and tie in other material that we may have discussed in class. This paper can be interpreted as an analysis of the Individual section.
For the most part, I agree with Druckers insights and theories. They seem rather common sense and touch you. There are also not very difficult to implement from the individual's perspective. His style of writing is not very formal and is frequented with examples from his personal experience. It emphasizes that his ideas are not revolutionary or random. It's just that no one has ever set out to identify key qualities of management. Finally, his goal to spread this knowledge so that everyone is capable of basic management skills.
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When you start to write your draft, I believe you will find that including your experiences and tying them to Drucker's points you will have too much material. Better to cover less but what you do cover do in some detail to make the narrative richer.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you in one way about Drucker - most of what he says seems like common sense. It is only when you get to see others who don't practice what he preaches (and see that as the prevalent form of behavior) that you get to realize that much of what he says is uncommon, though it remains quite reasonable.