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This Week’s Business Book:
Inside
Drucker's
Brain
by Jeffrey A. Krames
In
late
2003,
ninety-four-year-old
Peter
Drucker
invited
Jeffrey
Krames
to
his
home
for
an
unprecedented
day-long
interview.
He
spoke
candidly
about
his
seminal
management
principles,
his
enormous
body
of
work
(thirty-eight
books
over
six
decades),
and
the
leaders
he
had
advised
over
the
years
(including
Jack
Welch).
Krames
used
the
insights
he
gained
that
day
to
create
Inside
Drucker's
Brain--a
compact
guide
to
the
great
man's
wisdom.
Krames
had
no
intention
of
writing
a
biography,
but
rather
a
book
that
would
showcase
Drucker's
most
important
ideas
and
strategies,
and
explain
why
they
are
just
as
useful
today
as
they
were
decades
ago.
Drucker's
biggest
contribution
was
a
mind-set,
not
a
methodology.
He
focused
on
prodding
managers
to
ask
the
right
questions,
to
look
beyond
what
they
thought
they
knew,
and
to
focus
on
tomorrow
rather
than
yesterday.
If
anything,
this
mind-set
is
more
valuable
in
the
digital
age
than
it
was
in
the
industrial
age.
This
user-friendly
book
will
help
readers
grasp
all
of
Drucker's
key
ideas
on
leadership,
strategy,
innovation,
personal
effectiveness,
career
development,
and
many
other
topics.
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