Peter Drucker & W. Edwards Deming These are the two best management thinkers of the 20th century and they are largely ignored today.

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Drucker wrote A LOT. Assumption from your question: you have yet to gain much, if any, idea about what good management is. If so, The Daily Drucker [1] is a good, easily digestible entry point to the entire body of Peter Drucker's work.

Deming came from a statistics, systems, and manufacturing background, which at a glance, makes his work seem from a different world. That couldn't be more wrong. His principles are broadly applicable. Toyota and much of Japanese industry post-WWII learned from Deming and built their businesses on his principles. The easiest place to start with him is with his 14 Points [2].

Read a bit. Compare it to what you have seen or not seen in your work experience. Read more.

I spend a lot of time thinking about management and the more I learn, the less convinced I am that there has been anything truly new since these two thinkers.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Daily-Drucker-Insight-Motivation-Gett...

[2] https://www.deming.org/theman/theories/fourteenpoints