Can Drucker Save Struggling Japanese Businesses?
It was about 25 years ago that Japanese style management was in the spotlight, but after the country’s economic bubble collapsed and the economy lost power, it disappeared from people’s mind. As Japanese corporations struggle to survive and try to revise their management styles, some influential concepts for their business models come and go. The latest wave is something common but which emerged in a somewhat unexpected manner: the “Peter F. Drucker boom” rising from the younger generation. Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005), the father of business management, attracts more followers in Japan than in his birthplace of Europe and the country where he resides, the United States. Though he has a big group of admirers among serious Japanese business people, his methods are often considered to be applicable for experts. The reason his fame has spread to the younger generation is a book titled, Moshi Koukou Yakyuu no Joshi Manager ga Drucker no “Management” o Yondara (If a female assistant of a hi
