A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness

by Joseph A. Maciariello

Overview

A year-long leadership development course, divided into short, weekly lessons, based on Peter Drucker's personal coaching program, previously unpublished material, and selected readings from the management guru's classic works, compiled by his longtime collaborator Joseph A. Maciariello.

A Year with Peter Drucker distills the essence of Peter Drucker's personal mentorship program into an easy-to-follow 52-week course, exploring the themes Drucker felt were most important to leadership development, including:

• Leaders Must Set Sights on the Important and not the Urgent—a key differentiator between a subordinate and a chief.
• Management is a Human Activity—Process must serve people, in and out of the organization.
• The Roadmap to Personal Effectiveness—the importance of mission and doing the Right Things not just Getting Things Done.
• The critical importance of leadership succession especially at top ranks of the organization.

Each weekly management meditation includes a lesson and a message or anecdote taken from Drucker's extensive body of work, as well as suggestions for further reading, reflective questions, and quick, easy prompts to help readers incorporate the knowledge they've learned into their daily work.

A lifetime of wisdom brilliantly honed into a single essential volume by Drucker's collaborator Joseph A. Maciariello, A Year with Peter Drucker gives both lifelong Drucker fans and young executives now discovering his brilliance an invaluable opportunity to learn directly from the late master.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062315694
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	12/02/2014
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	496
File size:	836 KB

About the Author

Joseph A. Maciariello is Marie Rankin Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management of Claremont Graduate University. He collaborated with Drucker on many publications, including The Effective Executive in Action, the revised edition of Management, and The Daily Drucker.

Editorial Reviews

07/01/2014
A longtime collaborator of Peter Drucker, Maciariello draws on Drucker's personal coaching program, including unpublished material, to offer a 52-week course in leadership. Key ideas: management isa human activity, and you've got to focus on the important, not the urgent. (But what about my deadline?)

Library Journal

10/27/2014
Any book with the late management guru Peter Drucker’s name on it is likely to draw a crowd. However, this one, compiled by Maciariello, Drucker’s onetime student and longtime colleague, may leave readers feeling that, although Drucker’s insight still has merit, its value might be waning in today’s changing landscape. The book, as the title indicates, is meant to be savored one week at a time; each chapter features reading material that supports that week’s theme and ends with “practicum prompts” featuring thought-provoking questions. Although most of the lessons are still current—“defining purpose and mission,” “succession decision”—some seem timeworn or odd. Occasional references are dated. E-commerce receives only a minor mention. And today, when so many individuals and companies are finding ways to build successful businesses and “do good,” Drucker’s chapter on how to “Move from Success to Significance” feels redundant. Drucker’s views on religion’s place in American culture, particularly, will leave many readers cold. Still, the book (especially its latter half) may prove the perfect holiday gift for an older and accomplished business professional, one in the waning years of his or her career and with the time and inclination to reflect. (Dec.)

Publishers Weekly

Taking in the full range of Drucker’s work would be a rewarding-if time-consuming-project. Thanks to A Year With Peter Drucker, it is now possible to access his ideas in bite-size highlights.” — Wall Street Journal

From the Publisher

Taking in the full range of Drucker’s work would be a rewarding-if time-consuming-project. Thanks to A Year With Peter Drucker, it is now possible to access his ideas in bite-size highlights.

Wall Street Journal

Taking in the full range of Drucker’s work would be a rewarding-if time-consuming-project. Thanks to A Year With Peter Drucker, it is now possible to access his ideas in bite-size highlights.

Wall Street Journal