The World According to Drucker: The Life and Work of the World's Greatest Management Thinker
by Jack Beatty
Paperback/204pp/Orion Business Books (UK ed.)
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The World According to Drucker is an absorbing assessment of the ideas and views of Peter Drucker, one of the greatest management theorists and social thinkers of our time. Jack Beatty has written an intellectual biography, examining Drucker's more than 20 key works, their sources of inspiration and their impact on the world of management.

Poor Richard's Principle: Recovering the American Dream through the Moral Dimension of Work, Business, and Money
by Robert Wuthnow
Hardcover/429pp/Princeton University Press
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The American Dream is in serious danger, according to Robert Wuthnow - not because of economic conditions, but because its moral underpinnings have been forgotten. He suggests that we can find economic instruction and inspiration in the nation's past, in figures such as Ben Franklin and Poor Richard. Wuthnow draws on firsthand accounts of ordinary workers in all walks of life and provides a foundation for bringing moral reasoning more fully to bear on economic decisions.