ThisbookisstronglyrecommendedtoentrepreneurialdecisionmakerswhoarelookingforawaytoimplementDrucker’sideas.Decisionmakersnotonlyneedtohaveatheoryofknowledge,butmoreimportantly,anewworldview.InToKnowtheRealDrucker:EightArticlesWillHelpYou,wegetaglimpseofhowDruckerthoughtasamanagementguruandsocialecologist,aswellashisthinkingprocess.
ToKnowtheRealDrucker:EightArticlesWillHelpYouisacollectionofeightarticlesbyPeterDrucker:“TheUnfashionableKierkegaard”(1949)anditsintroduction(1992),“TheNewWorld-View”(1957),“FromAnalysistoPerception:TheNewWorldView”(1989),“ReflectionsofaSocialEcologist”(1992),“WhatIsaFunctioningSociety?”(1942),“FromRousseautoHitler”(1942),“TheHumanSituationToday”(1957),and“ManagementasSocialFunctionandLiberalArt”(1989).
Readerscanfindthesourceofeacharticlesinthetableofcontentsandeditor’snoteperarticle.Oftheeightarticles,onlythelastoneisfromDrucker’sworksonmanagement.Theothersevenarefromhisbooksonsociety,politics,andeconomics.Althoughtheworldhashailedhimasthe“FatherofModernManagement,”heconsideredhimselfa“socialecologist.”ThisbookwillplayanindispensableroleinexplainingthereasonforthatandinfurtherunderstandingthefoundationoffaithandworldviewwhichDrucker’ssocialecology(and,ofcourse,management)isbuilton.
