Research Paper on:
Managing for Results by Peter F. Drucker

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has been given Drucker over the past four decades. The Los Angeles Times describes him as: "Founding father of the science of management" while another great management guru, Tom Peters  says: "Our debt to Peter Drucker knows no limit." (Both quotes are taken from the books cover.) Recognizing the enormous impact from Druckers ten books on management and another ten  books on economics, politics, and society will allow for the reader to know that this man is unparalleled leader and theorist and that he clearly knows what he is talking  about. Managing for Results is, according to Drucker himself, the first book to address what is now called "business strategy" (pp. vii). The student should be aware of the fact  that Drucker is certainly not one of the countless numbers of writers putting forth their "management-theory-of-the-month"! In fact, he is a theorist who has inspired the entire "art" of writing  about business management. Part One In the first of the three sections of Managing for Results, Drucker addresses the need to understand business and what business realities are and  primarily focuses on analyzing a particular business and understanding the many components that have made it what it is. Drucker explains in his introduction that: "This is a what to  do book. I deals with the economic tasks that any business has to discharge for economic performance and economic results" (pp. xi). That attitude of "what to do" should be  kept in mind as the reader moves through the book. He begins by explaining that, all too often, organizational executives do not give "sufficient time nor sufficient thought to  the future" (pp. 3). Of course, it may be argued that very few people do. However the success of the organization is based on its leader or leaders and how