a little roundabout due to its heavy loading of meaning, but there is one book that he has written in a more lucid form, 'The Adventures of a bystander' which is autobiographical. The title of my own blog owes a great deal to the title of this book as also it does to books such as The adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Drucker is interesting even from a non management point of view. This is due to his uncanny anticipation of the times in which he lived in Europe and his own precocious decision to leave Europe at a very early stage.
Drucker's perceptions are sociological and true to the times. He is the one who gave the Corporation an existence as a modern sociological unit much like the feudalism of yore. The difference is that instead of interpreting what is there he gave an anticipatory value to it in his contention that the twin realities of the modern world are the existence of Corporations and the ubiquitous natue of technology.
From here there is only an extrapolation to a naive career guidance that the two things that man should learn these days are how to live in a world in which Corporations influence so much of life and the necessity of learning technology. One might even say that given no particular genius to any domain all children should aim for an Engineering degree and an MBA.
Once again indirectly we are talking of a New Industrial Society another of his books.The world of the executive comes so vivid in the books of Drucker not as a commentary in what he should be doing. Rather, Drucker is perhaps the only other one with so much of a sociological view of the manager apart fom William Whyte who talked of the organisation man. The fact of his sociological leaning and imagination is not obvious to the one who reads his works as a management past time until they care to inform themselves with the 'Adventures of a bystander'.
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