书名：The Practice of Management 管理的实践 
作者：Peter F. Drucker
出版社名称：Collins Business
出版时间：2006
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780060878979
商品尺寸：13.5 x 2.4 x 20.3 cm
包装：平装
页数：416

The Practice of Management《管理的实践》是一部从实际执行层面立论的管理学书籍。一部兼顾管理现有企业和创新未来企业的著作。很棒的一本讲述“管理如何能够复制”的著作。

★如果只读一本管理书籍，就读《管理的实践》
★现代管理学大厦的根基，管理学诞生的标志
★启蒙中国现代管理人
★当今中国一代活跃着的组织近在眉睫的问题，正是德鲁克向我们描述的如何管理的问题
★超越时空的德鲁克，管理者永恒的导师
★他称自己是“社会生态学家”，他对社会学和经济学的影响深远，他的著作架起了从工业时代到知识时代的桥梁

精彩书评：
《管理的实践》一书的出版使人们有可能学会如何去管理。在这之前，管理似乎只是少数天才能做的事，凡人是无法做到的。我坐下来花了些工夫，把管理变成了一门学科。本书出版后，不但在美国一炮走红，在全球各地也都非常成功，包括欧洲、拉丁美洲，尤其在日本更是备受重视。日本人认为本书的观念奠定了他们经济成功和工业发展的基石。——彼得·德鲁克

全世界的管理者都应该感谢这个人，因为他贡献了毕生的精力，来理清我们社会中人的角色和组织机构的角色，我认为彼得·德鲁克比任何其他人都更有效地做到了这一点。——通用电气前首席执行官 杰克·韦尔奇

在所有的管理学书籍中，德鲁克的著作对我影响很深。——微软总裁 比尔·盖茨

德鲁克是我心中的英雄。他的著作和思想非常清晰，在那些狂热追求时髦的思想的人群中独树一帜。——英特尔主席 安迪·格鲁夫

A classic since its publication in 1954, The Practice of Management was the first book to look at management as a whole and being a manager as a separate responsibility. The Practice of Management created the discipline of modern management practices. Readable, fundamental, and basic, it remains an essential book for students, aspiring managers, and seasoned professionals.
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"The dean of this country's business and management philosophers."--Wall Street Journal

"His writings are landmarks of the managerial profession."--Harvard Business Review

The Practice of Management《管理的实践》的根本目的在于通过对管理原则、责任和实践的研究，探索如何建立有效的管理机制和制度。而衡量一个管理制度是否有效的标准就在于该制度能否将管理者个人特征的影响降低到限度。
贯穿全书的三条主线：
·管理企业；
·管理管理者；
·管理员工和工作；
德鲁克的三个经典提问：
·我们的事业是什么？
·我们的事业将是什么？
·我们的事业究竟应该是什么？
管理必须同时考虑三个方面的问题：
·成果和绩效，这是企业存在的目的；
·在企业内部共同工作的人所形成的组织；
·外在社会，也就是企业的社会责任。

彼得·德鲁克，管理学科开创者，他被尊为“大师中的大师”、“现代管理学之父”，他的思想传播影响了130多个国家；他称自己是“社会生态学家”，他对社会学和经济学的影响深远，他的著作架起了从工业时代到知识时代的桥梁。
1909年彼得·德鲁克生于维也纳的一个书香门第，1931年获法兰克福大学国际法博士学位，1937年与他的德国校友多丽丝结婚，并移居美国，终身以教书、著书和咨询为业。
在美国他曾担任由美国银行和保险公司组成的财团的经济学者，以及美国通用汽车公司、克莱斯勒公司、IBM公司等大企业的管理顾问。为纪念其在管理领域的杰出贡献，克莱蒙特大学的管理研究生院以他的名字命名；为表彰他为非营利领域所带来的巨大影响，国际慈善机构“救世军”授予德鲁克救世军极高奖项“伊万婕琳·布斯奖”。
他曾连续20年每月为《华尔街日报》撰写专栏文章，一生在《哈佛商业评论》上共发表38篇文章，至今无人打破这项纪录。他著述颇丰，包括《管理的实践》《卓有成效的管理者》《管理：使命、责任、实务》《旁观者》等几十本著作，以30余种文字出版，总销售量超过600万册。其中《管理的实践》奠定了他作为管理学科开创者的地位，而《卓有成效的管理者》已成为全球管理者必读经典。
他曾7次获得“麦肯锡奖”；2002年6月2013，获得当年的“总统自由勋章”，这是美国公民所能获得的极高荣誉。
20世纪80年代，德鲁克思想被引入中国；2004年，德鲁克管理学全面进入中国的管理教育。
2005年11月11日，德鲁克在加州克莱蒙特的家中溘然长逝，享年95岁。
Peter F. Drucker is considered the most influential management thinker ever. The author of more than twenty-five books, his ideas have had an enormous impact on shaping the modern corporation. Drucker passed away in 2005.

Introduction: The Nature of Management
Part One. Managing a Business
Part Two. Managing Managers
Part Three. The Structure of Management
Part Four. The Management of Worker and Work
Part Five. What It Means to be a Manager
Conclusion: The Personsibilities of Management

THE manager is the dynamic, life-giving element in every business. Without his leadership the “resources of production” remain resources and never become production. In a competitive economy, above all, the quality and performance of the managers determine the success of a business, indeed they determine its survival. For the quality and performance of its managers is the only effective advantage an enterprise in a competitive economy can have.
Management is also a distinct and a leading group in industrial society. We no longer talk of “capital” and “labor”; we talk of “management” and “labor.” The “responsibilities of capital” have disappeared from our vocabulary together with the “rights of capita!”; instead, we hear of the “responsibilities of management,” and (a singularly hapless phrase) of the “prerogatives of management.” We are building up a comprehensive and distinct system of “education for management.” And when the Eisenhower Administration was formed in 1952, t was formed consciously as a “Management Administration.”
The emergence of management as an essential, a distinct and a leading institution is a pivotal event in social history. Rarely, if ever, has a new basic institution, a new leading group, emerged as fast as has management since the turn of this century. Rarely in human history has a new institution proven indispensable so quickly; and even less often has a new institution arrived with so little opposition, so little disturbance, so little controversy.
Management will remain a basic and dominant institution perhaps as long as ‘Western civilization itself survives. For management is not only grounded in the nature of the modern industrial system and in the needs of the modern business enterprise to which an industrial system must entrust its productive resources—both human and material. Management also expresses basic beliefs of modern Western society. It expresses the belief in the possibility of controlling man’s livelihood through systematic organization of economic resources. It expresses the belief that economic change can be made into the most powerful engine for human betterment and social justice— that, as Jonathan Swift first overstated it two hundred and fifty years ago, whoever makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before deserves better of mankind than any speculative philosopher or metaphysical system builder.