Managing for Results vs The Practice of Management: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Gestion d'entreprise, Management science, Organization and Administration, Decision making, Industrial management, Management
Managing for Results
“That executives give neither sufficient time nor sufficient thought to the future is a universal complaint.”
The effective business, Peter Drucker observes, focuses on opportunities rather than problems. How this focus is achieved in order to make the organization prosper and grow is the subject of this companion to his…
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The Practice of Management
“THE manager is the dynamic, life-giving element in every business.”
"This classic volume achieves a remarkable width of appeal without sacrificing scientific accuracy or depth of analysis. It is a valuable contribution to the study of business efficiency which should be read by anyone…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Managing for Results is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 7 for The Practice of Management.
- Managing for Results has the widest readership — 587 ratings behind its score.
- The Practice of Management reaches further in scholarship and criticism — cited 3683 times.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Managing for Results | The Practice of Management | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (587) | — |
| Hardcover | — | 4.2 (4) |
| Google Books | — | 5.0 (2) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.0 (27) |
Reception
| Managing for Results | The Practice of Management | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 587 | 27 |
| Editions | 32 | 37 |
| Citations | 470 | 3683 |
| Want to read | 1538 | — |
| Reading it now | 132 | — |
| Written reviews | 21 | — |
| Pages | 240 | 401 |