The Essential Drucker offers, in Drucker’s words, “a coherent and fairly comprehensive ‘Introduction to Management’ and gives an overview of my management work and thus answers the question I’ve been asked again and again: ‘Which writings are Essential?’ ” The book contains twenty-six selections on management in the organization, management and the individual, and management in society. It covers the basic principles and concerns of management and its problems, challenges, and opportunities, giving managers, executives, and professionals the tools to perform the tasks that the economy and society of today and tomorrow will demand of them.

Guru Grab-Bag: The nonagenarian dean of management advice has just published his 30th book, The Essential Drucker. It, too, is a "best-of" compilation: 26 chapters clipped from earlier titles released from 1954 to 1999 (@ Business Week)