Joseph A. Maciariello - Drucker’s Lost Art of Management: Peter Drucker’s Timeless Vision for Building Effective Organizations

PETER DRUCKERS TIMELESS VISION
FOR BUILDING EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS

JOSEPH A. MACIARIELLO
KAREN E. LINKLETTER

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This book represents the union of two very different approaches to the study of management. One author is a professor of management, with expertise in management systems, cost management, and project management. The other is a historian. What the authors have in common, however, is that both personally knew Peter Drucker, and have studied his work intensively.

This shared interest in Druckers work was the origin of this book. As we conducted our research independently, it became clear that Druckers vision of management required a deep understanding of the humanities and its goals. Drucker himself called management a liberal art, linking it directly to the humanities disciplines. What we have attempted to do in this book is to discern what Drucker meant by management as a liberal art, and to ground that concept in historical context and practice. It is our belief that, practiced in keeping with Druckers vision, management as a liberal art may offer hope for a more humanitarian, moral society.

contains a discussion of management as a liberal arts contributions to both the liberal arts and management. Because Druckers management philosophy was so driven by ethics and the idea of virtue, we address the questions of values, character, and ethics that are raised by management as a liberal art. Just as a liberal arts education historically emphasized creating people of virtue, management as a liberal art must also deal with these concepts.

The remaining chapters deal with four major topics for putting management as a liberal art into practicefederalism (.

Drucker identified the Federalist Papers, and by inference federalism, as a lasting contribution America has made to Western thought (Drucker, 1954, p. 280). The arguments made by Federalists and Anti-Federalists during the process of ratifying the Constitution of the United States dealt with difficulties and trade-offs .

Organizations are made up of human beings who, while capable of behaving like angels, often insist on behaving perversely. The primary task of management as a liberal art is to provide leadership for human beings to help them fulfill the mission of the organization. The characteristics of human beings at work are topics taken up in .

Finally, Drucker called himself a social ecologist. The work of a social ecologist is to create and maintain a society of functioning organizations. Doing so requires the social ecologist to anticipate discontinuities in society and to manage them through processes that provide for both continuity and change. The practice of social ecology is, in essence, the practice of management as a liberal art for producing a society of organizations that perform according to their missions.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are indebted to The Peter F. Drucker Literary Trust for their permission to use the Peter F. Drucker trademark in this publication. C. William Pollard, Chairman Emeritus, The ServiceMaster Company, provided the vision and financial support to carry out this project from its inception. We thank Rick Wartzman, Executive Director of The Drucker Institute, for his oversight of this Drucker Institute research project leading to the publication of the book. Zach First, Director of the Drucker Institute, helped us to organize the professional activity associated with advancing the ideas contained in this book. John Peters, Chief Executive of Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., formulated policies for Emerald authors that permitted adaptation of our previously published work in an Emerald journal associated with the Drucker Symposium in Vienna, Austria, on November 1920, 2009.