JOSEPH MACIARIELLO

Joseph A. Maciariello is Horton Professor of Management at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University where he teaches “Drucker on Management” courses for MBA and executive MBA students. He was a longtime friend and colleague of the late Peter F. Drucker, the author of the seminal Management. “Management” as a concept literally did not exist until Drucker’s groundbreaking work. From Jim Collins to Jack Welch, every great theorist and practitioner of management has walked in Drucker’s footsteps. Drucker is considered the most influential management thinker ever. The author of over 35 books, his ideas have had an enormous impact on shaping the modern corporation.

Management was first published in 1974 and came to define the field. In this seminal work, Drucker explored how managers – in the for-profit and public service sectors alike – can perform effectively. Examining management cases with a global eye, Drucker laid out the essentials of performance, and of how a manager interacts with their organization and the social and cultural environment in which they operate. For three decades, managers and students of business worldwide have relied on Peter Drucker to prepare themselves to meet the challenges of an ever-changing business environment.

Now, Maciariello has exhaustively revised and updated Management (Collins) to meet the needs of the modern-day manager. Almost every page contains new and reworked material that reflects the 30 years of Drucker’s thinking and writing that postdated the original edition. Business examples that have now gone out of date have been reworked; commentary to explore and explain Drucker’s thinking and its applications has been added throughout. Management is ready at last to enter the twenty-first century and continue its reign as the must-read text for every serious student of the field.

Maciariello collaborated with Drucker to publish The Daily Drucker (Collins), The Effective Executive in Action (Collins), three executive development modules, and two articles on management in the social sector. He collaborated with Drucker to write and produce three Internet executive development modules titled “Leading Change.” In addition, he is the author of numerous articles that provide a systematic integration of Drucker’s major works

Maciariello travels widely as a lecturer and consultant. He lives in Claremont, California.