Today, I made one of my best snap decision of this year, picking "The Essential Drucker":http://www.librarything.com/card_card.php?book=829923 over "Inuyasha":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InuYasha as bath time companion.

It really is what I needed right now. At work, I'm doing a lot of staffing for new and existing position, and also fitting into a new role myself. Chapter 9, _Picking People—The Basic Rules,_ opened my eyes to a systematic and thought-through process of doing both well.

The 10-page read both set me into the right direction and preventing me from making mistakes I can see myself making. No small mistake as well.

Any book that can do that for you deserves the be read. I'm now set out for a chapter a day, which should be ok as most of them are not more than 20 pages, and are self-contained essays collected from Drucker's 60 years of writing.

I also own 2 other Drucker's books, "Managing for Results":http://www.librarything.com/card_card.php?book=683418 and "The Effective Executive,":http://www.librarything.com/card_card.php?book=683421 neither of which I spent more than 15 minutes on. I hope they will move out of my "unfinished":http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?tag=unfinished&view=chrisada&she... collection soon.