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Milking the "Drucker" Cow!  2007-05-10
Peter Drucker was the father of the post war business revolution.And his every books will stand the test of time as he shaped modern business practises from Watson to Ford to Gates.With due respect, this book is just a reflection of the genius who still sparkles sporadically with his genius thoughts and this book is mediocre..by the standards that Drucker set in his haydays...
A compilation of articles and Interviews, each chapters and sections have no relationship to the title of the book and excessive importance given to Japan and hardly any reference to India and China makes it irrelevant..And US's foreign policy messups /Sep11 did not exist then.Yet think about his predictions on Japan on many fronts ( ex:Bureacracy) and replace Japan with India/China and you have the answer..
Skip this book and go on to other Drucker's book written 25 or 30 years earlier when he was still relatively young.Read Ram Charan, Prahalad's book for latest business wisdom as well
Collection of Exerpts  2006-11-14
This book is an interesting collection of chapters, interviews and ideas by Drucker. There are a handful of good ideas, but as a whole, the book is disjointed and no clear point or argument is raised. While it is good fodder for quotes, don't expect to emerge with any great ideas or new perspectives.
The book is about our future, as it is clearly seen by a brilliant visionary  2005-11-18
In this book, Peter F. Drucker provided his assessment of social, economic, and organizational developments of the near future. It might be tempting to discount this important work as just another set of predictions. Yet, coming from Drucker, the insights contained in this book are realities rather than possibilities. The book is about our future, as it is clearly seen by a brilliant visionary-the future, which is described to us with the patience and repetition of a great teacher, so we can internalize and begin to act on its implications even before the rest of us are able to distinguish its features.
The grimm perspectives for Latin America 2004-05-11
What makes me think deeply from this book is the criticism Mr. Drucker writes about the first world modern states. According to his point of view, they are already lagged in the race for being fitted to the new society and the social changes coming up from the new technological wave. If this is the present situation of the best national states, what could we say about the perspectives of the latin american nation-states?.The globalization creates ties among many firms and people who don't have their national states as a major intermediation. But the other face of the same process is the fragmentation that happens inside the countries. Mr. Drucker does not outline ideas about the fragmentation process, the other side of the coin, the shadow of the globalization process. This reality does not include all people. The exclusion of some from the benefits of the new model of creation of wealth has political consequences. In the fisrt world, with their bureaucracies, long stablished political parties and rich welfare-states, it will be possible the handling of all undesirable consequences of globalization. With the political ground stable enough, the first world should be able to continue allocating its resources, public and private, well, in an ever changing environment. But what about the latin american nation-states?, they don't have political systems with sufficient legitimacy to produce major consensus and improve the performace of the public policies, at the same time that petty private interests are hold back. And, in addition, they lack the financial resources that come from a fully industrialized economy to face the same kind of problems, but at a higher scale. I recommend this book to every top latin american politican. The future of business and society will depend more than ever on good enough national states and public policies.Every latin american political elite has the opportunity to show how useful they are. And please, don't blame markets, nor selfish and shy investors, neither unfair trade policies. We know that there are some troubles about them, but they are not as important as the flaws of our national states.
Good, solid book. 2004-04-22
This book is the second full text that I have read from Drucker. During my MBA days I was also exposed to/emersed in many of his articles and theories. I have always found him to be insightful and thought provoking. For some reason, particularly with this text, I found his style and delivery to be long-winded and somewhat arrogant. Reading between the lines, his message is clear -- we are at the beginning of the revolution...there is so much more to come. Good book -- a step above most authors. Middle of the road for Drucker however.
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