Book Review: The Essential Drucker

The Essential Drucker is a compilation of Peter Drucker’s selected insights and writings on management for the past sixty years. The book has twenty-six selections which were divided into three parts: Management, Individual, and Society. The first section, Management, highlights the different ideas about management such as the origin and definition and its use and application in the business organization. The second part of the book focuses on the individual. This section talks about the principles that an individual can learn and imbibe, and what skills he or she must develop in order for him or her to effectively manage a business or an organization. The third section of the book concentrates on the society. After introducing and discussing

This part of the book shows how the business or organization, and the individual managing it can be involved and can contribute to the external environment. Peter Drucker named this compilation The Essential Drucker because he chose and incorporated the most vital concepts from his works which would add value to the reader when it comes to managing the business or organization, managing one’s self, managing other managers, and managing subordinates.

Aside from learning how to manage myself specifically my time, I have also encountered some concepts that I believe are of use to Seaoil. One of these concepts is about communication. While reading the section entitled Communication Is Perception, Expectation, and Demand, I have had a deeper understanding of communication. Since then, I have learned that communication exists when the sender encodes a message for the receiver to receive, decode, and to be able to send a feedback after but what I have learned from

It was stated in section fifteen that more and more people in the workforce will have to manage themselves and have to place themselves where they can make the greatest contribution. The section A Challenge for Individuals also said that entrepreneurial society individuals face a challenge which is to exploit as an opportunity the need for continual learning and re-learning. This then made me think about the whole process of the program. The Management Trainee Program specifically Seaoil’s Management Trainee Program allows us fresh graduates, to know ourselves better by allowing us to have a deeper understanding of what and who we are as an individual, by making us discover our strengths, our own way of performing and accomplishing tasks and meeting goals, and assessing if our values align that of the company as well as letting us gather more information and store more knowledge. It will not only make us aware, understand, and experience the different departments and operations of the company. Upon starting, it first made me wonder why unlike other MT programs of other companies, we do not directly get immersed in the company’s operations and why do we even have to read a book and submit a book report. But after several sessions and after reading The Essential Drucker, I have realized that this MT program