Management, Revised edition--------------------------------------------------The book that defined the field of management: now completely revisedand updated for the first time in the three decades since its initialpublication. There are very few writers of whom one can say they inventedan entire field of study: Peter F. Drucker is one. ",Management",as a concept literally did not exist until Drucker's groundbreakingwork. From Jim Collins to Jack Welch, every great theorist and practitionerof management has walked in Drucker's footsteps. And in 1974, withMANAGEMENT, he published the book that would come to define the field.In this seminal work, Drucker explored how managers--in the for-profitand public service sectors alike--can perform effectively. Examiningmanagement cases with a global eye, Drucker laid out the essentialsof performance, and of how a manager interacts with their organizationand the social and cultural environment in which they operate. Forthree decades, managers and students of business worldwide have reliedon Peter Drucker to prepare themselves to meet the challenges of anever-changing business environment.The result is a book that--whilestill a fundamental work--has also slipped substantially behind thecurrent business climate. Now Joseph Maciariello, Professor of Managementat Claremont University's Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito GraduateSchool of Management and one of Drucker's foremost students and proteges,has exhaustively revised and updated this book to meet the needs ofthe modern-day manager. Almost every page contains new and reworkedmaterial that reflects the thirty years of Drucker's thinking and writingthat postdated the original edition. Business examples that have nowgone out of date have been reworked, commentary to explore and explainDrucker's thinking and its applications has been added throughout.MANAGEMENT is ready at last to enter the twenty-first century and continueits reign as the must-read text for every serious student of the field.--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: PETER F. DRUCKER is considered the most influentialmanagement thinker ever. The author of over 25 books, his ideas havehad an enormous impact on shaping the modern corporation. Drucker passedaway in 2005.