Inside Drucker's Brain
By: Jeffrey A. Krames
Published: Oct 16, 2008
ISBN: 9781591842224
Format: Hardcover, 224pp
Publisher: Portfolio
"I learned more about Drucker that day - and the real essence of management - than I had during the many years that I him and other seminal figures in the field", writes author Jeffrey A. Krames, in the landmark book Inside Drucker's Brain. The author's thought provoking once in a lifetime interview, with management legend Peter Drucker, succeeds in showcasing the father of management's signature concepts, and how they are still vital today. At the same time, the books demonstrates how Peter Drucker originated many of the most important themes of today's best selling business management books.
When Peter Drucker granted a personal interview to Jeffrey Krames, the result was a tour de force conversation with the seminal thinker on business management. Indeed, before Peter Drucker invented the field of management studies and the role of business management in society, there was no such area of inquiry. The resulting interview distills the crucial elements of Peter Drucker's ideas into easy to read chapters. At the same time, the theories presented provide a foundation for further thought and study in each area of management. As Jeffrey Krames points out several times in the book, Peter Drucker established the watershed ideas in every branch of management.
Jeffrey Krames (photo left) not only shares the foundation principles of Peter Drucker's thoughts on management, but also shows how those ideas are as relevant today as when they were formulated decades ago. The author traces the management theories, that form the basis of today's most widely read and important business books, back to their ultimate source in the fertile mind of Peter Drucker. While often a glaring omission from management school reading lists, Peter Drucker's founding business principles are imprinted on the pages of most other business management textbooks. This interview goes far to establish the legacy left by the father of management study, and to acknowledge the debt owed by every modern manager and business book author to the late Peter Drucker.
For me, the power of the book is the intensely personal way the author presents Peter Drucker's ideas. By letting Peter Drucker's own words set the tone of the book, his personality echoes through the pages. In my own management days, I focused on the management principles espoused throughout the book. It was disconcerting the first time I discovered that what I believed to be an innovative management practice, had been already anticipated by Peter Drucker, many decades earlier. As I became more aware of the depth and power of the man's thought, I began to recognize that I was walking in the footprints of greatness, even if I was only able to comprehend just its mere outlines.
I highly recommend the monumental Inside Drucker's Brain by Jeffrey A. Krames, to anyone serious about understanding the most fundamental management ideas right from their source. To read the transcribed words, of the inventor of management study, is to be taught by the late master himself.
Read Inside Drucker's Brain by Jeffrey A. Krames, and you will never look at a management idea or read a management book in the same way again. In every case, you will remember that the very source material of today's most influential management books, was the legendary Peter Drucker. The legacy of Peter Drucker, the humble and unassuming genius of business management, is well preserved in the pages of this already destined to be classic book.
My internet radio interview with Inside Drucker's Brain author Jeffrey A. Krames.
