This collection brings together 26 selected essays by Peter Drucker, offering knowledge based on his experience as an advisor to large corporations, entrepreneurial startups, government and nonprofit agencies, and public institutions. Essays are organized by topic: management, its roots and emergence, dimensions, and challenges; the role of managers, their objectives, middle management, knowledge operation, and effective staffing; and business and the importance of objectives, profits, and managing capital productivity and public service institutions. Other subjects are performance; using the strengths of people; and the social impacts and problems of management, ethics, and social responsibility. Some of the material was reprinted from the Wall Street Journal and Fortune. There are no dates or sources for others. There is no bibliography. Drucker was a writer, teacher, and consultant, who was regarded as the "founding father of the study of business management." Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)