Principles of Management

Peter F. Drucker

Drucker invented management as a field. His core principles — define the business by the customer, manage by objectives, and build on strengths — still underpin everything written since.

A distillation of Peter Drucker's foundational thinking on management as a discipline: its purpose is to make people productive toward a common goal, and its practice rests on setting objectives, organizing, motivating, measuring, and developing people — including oneself.