The Drucker Institute ranked America’s largest publicly traded companies according to Peter Drucker’s principles of effectiveness —“doing the right things well.”
Johnson Controls is listed among the best-managed companies in America, according to a survey published in The Wall Street Journal.
The company ranks 67th in the report by the Drucker Institute, a part of Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif. The Management Top 250 ranking is based on a holistic measure of corporate “effectiveness,” defined as “doing the right things well.”The measure seeks to assess how well a company follows a core set of principles advanced by the late Peter Drucker, a professor, consultant, author and longtime Wall Street Journal columnist.
The ranking includes U.S. companies whose shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq Stock Market, and that meet criteria related to their value and prominence. The measure seeks to assess how well a company follows a core set of principles advanced by the late Peter Drucker, a professor, consultant, author and longtime Wall Street Journal columnist.
These principles serve as touchstones for five dimensions of corporate performance: Customer Satisfaction, Employee Engagement and Development, Innovation, Social Responsibility and Financial Strength.