Technology, management, and society

Business and economics

First published: 1970
Print length: 199 pagesHarvard Business Press, 2010

Description

Technology, Management & Society brings together Peter F. Drucker’s reflections on the connections among technological change, organizational leadership, and social life. The essays approach management as more than a set of business techniques, asking how institutions respond when new tools and forms of work alter established expectations. Drucker’s perspective keeps human purposes and responsibilities in view, linking decisions inside organizations to their wider effects. The collection is suited to readers interested in management thought, institutional change, and the social questions that accompany technological development in modern public life.

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Writing: How much attention the sentences and language require.
Ideas: How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
Structure: How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
Background knowledge: Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
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Writing style

Academic · Dense · Essayistic

Pace

Measured

Tone

Cerebral · Earnest · Philosophical

Structure

Argumentative

Focus

Argument · Ideas · Information

Emotional intensity

2 / 5

Reading complexity

1–5 · higher means more demanding

Writing: 4 / 5
Ideas: 4 / 5
Structure: 3 / 5
Background knowledge: 2 / 5

Themes

MoralityPowerTechnology and societyTransformationWork

About Peter F. Drucker

Peter F. Drucker was an Austrian American consultant, educator, and author whose work helped establish management as both a practical discipline and a field of serious inquiry. Writing for scholarly and general audiences, he examined organizations across business, government, and the nonprofit sector, with sustained attention to how institutions shape human work. His method joined broad social observation to practical questions and a steady emphasis on results. In The Practice of Management, he treated objectives, structure, and performance as connected responsibilities; The Effective Executive argued that effectiveness rests on learnable habits rather than personality or authority. Managing Oneself extended that discipline to the individual, using self-assessment and feedback to clarify strengths and contribution, while Innovation and Entrepreneurship presented innovation as systematic work rather than inspiration. Drucker’s recurring concern was the relationship between institutional purpose and individual dignity. His influential ideas about management by objectives, self-control, and the “knowledge worker” gave managers a vocabulary for changes in modern working life without reducing management to technique alone.

Book details

For the print edition listed above.

Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Language: English
ISBN: 9781422131619

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