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Managing
in the Next Society
By
Peter Drucker
St. Martin's Press, 2002 - 352 pages
Despite
being a huge Drucker Fan I give this book a four star
rating on a five star scale.
In saying this, the book was interesting and a
good learning process but it didn’t cause me to
experience a paradigm shift.
The Global Economy and the Nation State (ch.
14) saved my rating of the book because it was so
insightful. I
found much of the book to be filler because a lot of the
content can be found in other Drucker books and much of
the information in the book is repeated over and over in
chapters throughout the book.
To put it into perspective, at least four
chapters are nothing more than edited interviews with
the author that were published in magazines).
Managing in the Next Society by Peter Drucker is
the latest book by the author.
The book is a collection of articles and
interviews by Drucker in recent years.
More specifically, chapters in this book have
originally appeared in The Economist, Red Herring,
Business 2.0., Inc. Magazine, New Perspectives, Foreign
Affairs magazine, Viewpoint, Leaders to Leader, Atlantic
Monthly, The Wall Street Journal and in the Harvard
Business Review. So,
while I wouldn’t be surprised if Drucker fans have
read one or two of these chapters via magazines I would
be surprised if any reader has read most of the content
before publication of this book.
The book is segmented into four different
sections. They
are: The Information Society, Business Opportunities,
The Changing World Economy and The Next Society.
Each section has approximately 60 – 80 pages of
text and the book is easy to read, as most Drucker books
are.
If you haven’t read anything by the author
before don’t start here.
I would personally recommend new readers of Peter
Drucker start with The Essential Drucker as it stands as
the authors best work (it is a collection of his best
works from over 60 years of writing.)
Other Excellent works by the author are Post
Capitalist Society, The Age of Discontinuity, The
Effective Executive & Innovation and
Entrepreneurship.
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About the
Author:
Peter F. Drucker
was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1909. Educated in
Austria and in England, Mr. Drucker holds a
doctorate in Public and International Law from
Frankfurt University in Germany. He also has
received honorary doctorates from American,
Belgian, Czech, English, Japanese, Spanish and
Swiss universities. Since 1971, Mr. Drucker has
been Marie Rankin Clarke Professor of Social
Science and Management at Claremont Graduate
University in Claremont, California, which named
its Graduate Management Center after him in 1987.
In addition to
teaching, Mr.Drucker currently acts as a
consultant, specializing in strategy and policy
for both businesses and nonprofits, and in the
work and organization of top management. He has
worked with many of the world's largest
corporations and with small and entrepreneurial
companies; with nonprofits such as universities,
hospitals and community services; and with
agencies of the U.S. Government as well as with
Free-World governments such as those of Canada and
Japan. In the past, Mr. Drucker has variously been
economist for an international bank in London;
American economist for a group of British and
European banks and investment trusts; and American
correspondent for a group of British newspapers.
From 1950 to 1971,
Mr. Drucker was Professor of Management at the
Graduate Business School of New York University
which awarded him the university s highest honor,
the Presidential Citation in 1969. From 1979 to
1985, he also served as Professorial Lecturer in
Oriental Art at Pomona College, one of the
Claremont Colleges. He also acted as Professor of
Politics and Philosophy at Bennington College in
Bennington, Vermont.
A prolific writer
on subjects relating to society, economics,
politics and management, Mr. Drucker has published
30 books which have been translated into more than
twenty languages. In addition to his writings on
management and economics, he has written an
autobiographical book entitled, Adventures of a
Bystander, and co-authored Adventures of the
Brush; Japanese Paintings. Mr. Drucker has made
several series of educational movies based on his
management books, and he was an editorial
columnist for the Wall Street Journal from 1975 to
1995, and serves as a frequent contributor to
magazines.
Mr. Drucker is
married and has four children and six
grandchildren.
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