For decades managers opened their copies of Harvard Business Review and immediately turned to Drucker's articles first. In this collection of 15 of his most significant articles for HBR, Drucker in essence invents the art and science of business management, a field virtually unnoticed until the mid-1950s, developing the theories and practices that would become an academic industry in themselves. He takes on the responsibilities of managers, including the act of managing oneself and understanding the theory of the business, making effective decisions, remembering employees are people, knowing the discipline of innovation, and managing for business effectiveness. He then takes on the executives world, analyzing the information they really need to make them effective, describing the new organizations to come, meeting the new productivity challenges, and working with a global economy, The collection closes with an interview with Drucker about the "post-capitalist" executive. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)