Read Peter Drucker
What to Read.
I'm often asked by MBA applicants what they should read to familiarize themselves with the MBA world and with management culture in general. I tell them to start with Peter Drucker. Basic business literacy....
A Sure Sign of Ignorance
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Where to Start
Peter wrote more than 30 books, so finding a starting point can be difficult. I recommend The Essential Drucker, a compilation of Peter's most important works.
Anyone Else?
Yeah, Michael Porter. He's a professor at Harvard and he's believed by many — myself included — to be the world's preeminent academic theorist on business strategy. Start with his PDF offprint titled What is Strategy? You can download it at Amazon.
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