People And Performance by Peter F. Drucker

People and Performance demonstrates Bracker's particular genius for breaking through conventional cutlooks and spening up new perspectives for ultimate profits in the world of business. What must be done to make the organization perform, prosper and grow what the executive, the maker of decisions, must do to move the enterprise forward is the subject of this book. It will be of great value to students of management as well as executives in industry and commerce, and it deals skilfully and perceptively with economic tasks which every business has to tackle in order to achieve sound performance and economic results.

Born in Vienna in 1909, Peter F. Drucker was educated in Aüstria and England. From 1929 he was a newspaper correspondent abroad and an economist for an international bank in London. Since 1937 he has been in the United States, first as an economist for a group of British banks and insurance companies, and later as a management consultant to several of the country's largest companies, as well as leading companies abroad.

Drucker has since had a distinguished career as a teacher, first as Professor of Politics and Philosophy at Bennington College, then for more than twenty years as Professor of Management at the Graduate Business School of New York University. Since 1971 he has been Clarke Professor of Social Science at Claremont Graduate School in California.

In addition to his management books, Peter Drucker is also renowned for his prophetic books analysing politics, economics and society. These books span fifty years of modern history beginning with The End of Economic Man (1939) and Managing in a Time of Great Change, Management: Task, Responsibilities, Practices, The Effective Executive; Innovation and Enterpreneurship and The Practice of Management.