On June 30, I was privileged to be a panelist for A Day of Drucker: Tackling Today’s Challenges With the “Father of Management,” a day-long virtual event produced by the Global Peter Drucker Forum, in Vienna, Austria. It featured many fascinating panels and breakout sessions; and there was also a special day of workshops on June 29. The 13th Global Peter Drucker Forum is scheduled for the fall, both virtual (November 17-19) and in person (November 18-19), in Vienna. The theme is “The Human Imperative: Navigating Uncertainty in the Digital Age.”
In this post, I’m highlighting 35 books by speakers/panelists from June 30. This list is adapted from the one I compiled for the July 2021 online newsletter for the Wiley journal I edit, Leader to Leader. The emphasis is on curation, not the production of an exhaustive, definitive list of every book from every person. Many are also scheduled for the November event: Tal Ben-Shahar, Steve Blank, Tamara J. Erickson, Charles Handy, Rahaf Harfoush, Julia Kirby, Philip Kotler, Roger L. Martin, Rita Gunther McGrath, Don Tapscott, and Avivah Wittenberg-Cox.
In the meantime, my list is sure to keep you busy until at least November 17!
Tal Ben-Shahar: Happier, No Matter What: Cultivating Hope, Resilience, and Purpose in Hard Times
Steve Blank: The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
Eduardo P. Braun: People First Leadership: How the Best Leaders Use Culture and Emotion to Drive Unprecedented Results
Jim Collins: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t
Jenny Darroch: Marketing Through Turbulent Times
Steve Denning: The Age of Agile: How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done
Elizabeth Haas Edersheim: The Definitive Drucker: Challenges For Tomorrow’s Executives — Final Advice From the Father of Modern Management
Tamara J. Erickson: Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation
Bill Fischer: Reinventing Giants: How Chinese Global Competitor Haier Has Changed the Way Big Companies Transform
Katsutoshi Fujita: Real Management Learned at the Drucker School
Marshall Goldsmith: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
John Hagel III: The Journey Beyond Fear: Leverage the Three Pillars of Positivity to Build Your Success
Charles Handy: 21 Letters on Life and Its Challenges
Rahaf Harfoush: Hustle and Float: Reclaim Your Creativity and Thrive in a World Obsessed with Work
Andrew Hill: Ruskinland: How John Ruskin Shapes Our World
Santiago Iñiguez: Cosmopolitan Managers: Executive Development that Works
Bernie Jaworski: The Organic Growth Playbook: Activate High-yield Behaviors to Achieve Extraordinary Results – Every Time
Julia Kirby: Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines (with Thomas H. Davenport)
Philip Kotler: Marketing 5.0: Technology for Humanity
Karen Linkletter: Drucker’s Lost Art of Management: Peter Drucker’s Timeless Vision for Building Effective Organizations (with Joseph A. Maciariello)
Jean Lipman-Blumen: The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why We Follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians–and How We Can Survive Them
Emi Makino: Innovation Makers: How Campus Makerspaces Can Empower Students to Change the World
Fredmund Malik: Navigating into the Unknown: A New Way for Management, Governance, and Leadership
Roger L. Martin: When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency
Rita Gunther McGrath: Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen
Alex Osterwalder: Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers
Peter Paschek: Peter F. Drucker: Memories of a Conservative Christian Anarchist
William Pollard: The Tides of Life: Learning to Lead and Serve as You Navigate the Currents of Life
Bruce Rosenstein: Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way: Developing and Applying a Forward-Focused Mindset
Hermann Simon: Many Worlds, One Life: A Remarkable Journey from Farmhouse to the Global Stage
Don Tapscott: Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Is Changing the World
Hongjun Wang: The Story of Alec: How a parrot discovered the keys to a lifetime embracing congruence
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox: Why Women Mean Business: Understanding the Emergence of Our Next Economic Revolution
Adrian Wooldridge: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
Kazuo Yano: The Invisible Hand of Data: Hidden Laws of Happiness, Business, and Economy Revealed by Wearable Sensors