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The most accessible guide to the essential ideas of the inventor of modern management In late ninety-four-year-old Peter Drucker invited Jeffrey Krames to his home for an unprecedented day-long interview He spoke candidly about his seminal management principles his enormous body of work thirty-eight books over six decades and the leaders he had advised over the years including Jack Welch Krames used the insights he gained that day to createInside Druckers Brain--a compact guide to the great mans wisdom Krames had no intention of writing a biography but rather a book that would showcase Druckers most important ideas and strategies and explain why they are just as useful today as they were decades ago Druckers biggest contribution was a mind-set not a methodology He focused on prodding managers to ask the right questions to look beyond what they thought they knew and to focus on tomorrow rather than yesterday If anything this mind-set is more valuable in the digital age than it was in the industrial age This user-friendly book will help readers grasp all of Druckers key ideas on leadership strategy innovation personal effectiveness career development and many other topics.