Beyond the sum of parts
BOOK BRIEF
| If there's a single book you recommend that all business school students read right now, which would it be? |
| Peter F Drucker's book "" Management: Tasks and Practice. |
| And why Drucker? |
| Once you get into a B-school, you get to study various specilised aspects of management ""like finance, human resources, and marketing, among others. But you do not get a holistic view of the business enterprise as an entity. In B-school, you study in pieces, and they do not teach you how it reaches society at large. One needs a wider prespective. |
| Is this book not taught at B-schools? |
| The irony is that you study two years in a B-school, and they do not teach you anything written by Drucker, the father of management. One could also read The Principles of Management which is a concise version of the same book and is good enough to read. |