Management Challenges for the 21st Century

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Summary: very good book
Review: the book is a real masterpiece but topics like falling birth rate have hardly any relevance given the senario in developing countries like india. these concepts may well be true else where but not in india where still they are coping with problems of high birth rate.

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Summary: It really addressed the challenges of the mid-1990s
Review: The book was disappointing since what Mr. Drucker views as the management challenges of the 21st century are really the management challenges that have been with us for most of this decade. For example, his "new paradigms" include the aging population and the increase in shareholder influence. His "new challenges" include the increased availability of information, managing knowledge workers and the constantly changing organisation. This is hardly insightful to anyone who has managed, or simply worked, in a corporation in the last decade. One bright light - the final chapter on "Managing Oneself" is like a nice pep talk from a favourite grandfather.

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Summary: Management Challenges for the 21st Century
Review: This book confirms my opinion that Peter Drucker is still America's management guru!

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Summary: Very good on manage changes
Review: This book have described how to manage changes. That is very important. just as the book who moved my cheeses.

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Summary: A true classic
Review: This book is a true classic. Peter Drucker is the father of modern management, and his influence is everywhere in business today. If you're interested in becoming a better manager, you just can't go wrong with this book.

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Summary: Not Predictable...
Review: This book is more than I excpected. Being as old as Mr. Drucker it's unbelieveable how he looks into the future and tells you what kind of changes there might be. Must read if in managment.

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Summary: just do it
Review: This is a book for any manager serious about his/her future, for any management trainer/consultant serious about his/her future, for any leader serious about his/her future. Just do it. Read it.

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Summary: Quality and mesmerizing book
Review: This is a straightforward, no-holes-barred book on leadership that gets to the bottom line quickly: what is happening now (not in the future) in organizations that's good and not-so-good. It reads well and gives quite a bit of insight into the challenges. Very well organized and provoking.

Also recommend Drucker's brilliant other works and also a thought-provoking book: "The Leader's Guide: 15 Essential Skills."

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Summary: Get ready to manage in a new world
Review: This is Drucker's first really new book in several years, though he tested some of its themes in journal articles before writing Challenges. As the title implies, the book looks forward to the most important management issues Drucker believes will emerge from developing trends. He points to the certainties that will rise to the forefront of managers' strategic thinking. He discusses how we must manage the knowledge workers who will predominate our future work force. Drucker ends by wrestling with how knowledge workers must manage themselves and their lengthening careers.

Too many sociologists believe that they must answer every question they pose. To bring this closure, they ask and answer questions that are too trivial. The best sociologists raise the important questions, answer the ones they can, and leave the remaining work for others. That is how Drucker continues to excel at age 90. Challenges is a must read for management professionals, students, and scholars.

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Summary: Valuable insights by a great master
Review: This is not the first Peter Drucker's book i read. But i realize this is the better one. Their concepts on management, and the challenges coming up, not only for business but goverment and people too, create new lines for research, practice and discussion on the never complete science-art-method of managing entities into a ever changing social world. But this book would not get an academic prize. This is not the basic concern the author had in mind. Since the first chapter, when he makes a in-depth review on the managemet's basic assumptions, until the end, when he writes a brilliant chapter about personal management, there is a basic concern, what is, improve our potential to make the difference, to translate into better actions what you are reading. As he writes in the introduction, this book is a call for action.

After reading this book you will be a little bit more worried about the future, and you will feel a little bit more involved in understandig the trends, the troubles, the risks, that are around our bussineses, in order to build up solutions in advance.

A book to have near (at your bedroom, at the office, at your desk), to remind every time basic things. And to act.