While corporate malfeasance was once considered the exception, the American public is
increasingly viewing unethical, immoral, and even criminal business behavior as the norm.
According to the authors of Drucker's Lost Art of Management, there is some truth behind
this new perception. Business management has lost its bearings, and the authors look to
Peter Drucker’s vision of management as a liberal art to steer business back on course.
Recognized as the world's leading Drucker scholar, Joseph Maciariello, along
with fellow Drucker scholar Karen Linkletter, provides a blueprint for making corporate
American management more functional and redeeming its reputation.
Throughout his career, Peter Drucker made clear connections between the liberal arts
and effective management, but he passed away before providing a detailed exposition of his
ideas. Maciariello and Linkletter integrate their Drucker expertise in management and the
liberal arts to finally define management as a liberal art and fulfill Drucker's vision.
In Drucker's Lost Art of Management, Maciariello and Linkletter examine
Drucker's contention that managers must concern themselves with the foundational concepts
of political science, history, economic theory, and other liberal arts, such as:
- Societal values and standards
- The use and abuse of power
- Individual character development
- Innovation and technology
- The nature of good and evil
- The role managers play in a healthy society
The authors create a new philosophy of management based on the principles leaders
throughout history have relied on to be effective both individually and as custodians of
civilized society and healthy economies.
Our future executives, professionals, managers, and entrepreneurs are on track to
learning (and perpetuating) the idea that only the bottom line matters in business—a
concept that benefits no one in the end. It's up to us to instill the ageless verities
that make for good management, good society, and good business results.
A passionate call for radical change in today's management practices,
Drucker's Lost Art of Management provides the ideas, concepts, and practical advice to
make that
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments v
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Origins of Management as a Liberal Art in Peter Drucker's Writings 23
Chapter 2 Management and Liberal Arts Traditions: Bridging the Two Worlds 63
Chapter 3 Contributions of Management as a Liberal Art 95
Chapter 4 Federalism and the Distribution of Power and Authority 133
Chapter 5 The Human Dimension and Management as a Liberal Art 181
Chapter 6 Effective Leadership as a Liberal Art 237
Chapter 7 Social Ecology and the Practice of Management as a Liberal Art
299
Chapter 8 Applied Social Ecology: Innovation and Change for a Hopeful and
Bearable Society 355
Conclusion 391
Notes 397
Sources 409
Index 441
446 pages, Hardcover