Drucker thought he had time to think about it…

Book review:

Concept of the Corporation

by Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)

Educator, business guru

New York: The John Day Company, 1946

1972 edition with new Preface and new Epilogue by author

It’s almost eerie to read insightful critiques of big business written 80 and 55 years ago. Drucker’s commentary is artful, candid, deeply informed, and instructive—but far less so now than it was in the past.

Serious rumination about the role of the corporation is less in vogue now than it was two generations ago, much to our detriment.

Drucker was too early to feel the ill wind that blows when the corporation imposes its awesome power on its employees and society as a whole.

Concept of the Corporation is an historical gem, but it doesn’t touch the hot nerves that drive the destructive role that big business has created for itself.

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