A book "What if a girl sports manager of high school boy baseball team read a book of Management by Peter F Drucker" has been sold more than 350,000

This book's title is so long that it's usually called 'Moshi Dra". The book referred in its title is, of course, a management book written by Peter F Drucker, whose books are also very popular among the Japanese businessman. Probably, there is literally no one who never heard of the name of P.F. Drucker in Japan as long as he or she has an experience of professional work. As you know, P.F. Drucker emphasizes the importance of the employees and customers as opposed to the too-highly-well-paid top executives. Those ideas are really resonate with Japanese fundamental culture. So every books issued written by, and with the name of P.F. Druker on it well sold for long years. However, all those books are somewhat serious, so potential readers are limited.

Then came this book. This is a novel book, based on the idea of what if a high school girl, who determined to lead her high school's boy baseball team to win the national competition, then became a manager of the team, reads the book titled 'Management' written by P.F. Drucker. In this book, the girl tries to apply the insights she got from the book 'Management', to solve the problems.

One of the topics which gets many attentions is about the author. This authoer, Natsumi Iwasaki, is used to working as the co-director of AKB 48, which is now very popular professional dance and sing team composed of actual high school girls.

According to his accounts, he get this idea when he worked with those high school girls, who always compete each other very hard to win the star position in the team. He soon realized even in those severe competitions, they sometimes help each other with pure mind to be a truly one-team. That happened when one girl start outstsnding in the team, showing her talent to control other team members. She could draw out each team member's individual talents, and make it shine as one strong light ball as one team. It helped for the team to get astonishing success in the Show Biz.

This book is not a summary of the P.F. Druckers 'Management.' but will show some possible case studies when you try to apply some ideas you got from the 'Management', and be a good gateway that leads you to the referred authentic book of 'Management' by P. F. Drucker.