Did a high school girl help Peter Ferdinand Drucker become more popular in Japan?

In Japan, after school, junior and senior high school students can participate in club activities that their schools offer, although there is a growing trend of students having no interest in joining them. Also, more and more students aren't allowed to participate in club activities even if they really want to because they have to work part-time jobs to help their parents suffering from the current recession. Anyway, there are various clubs at school, such as a baseball teams and brass bands. In some sports clubs, there are students who take care of players and support their activities and training. These students are called managers. I don't know why.

To make my explanation more easily understood, I'll use a baseball club as an example. Some students are willing to join the baseball club as the so-called managers because they really like baseball but can't or don't want to play it for some reason. In addition, there are some girls with an ulterior motive. It means that are interested in a guy in the baseball club, so they join it as managers. Also, boys in the baseball club sometimes try to drag popular girls into the club as managers. What I want to say is that Japanese people are very familiar with these so-called managers.

Incidentally, a certain business book has been drawing considerable attention in the past year. Recently, it was announced that this book was No.1 on the 2010 annual best seller list, which has drawn more attention to the book since it's unusual for business books to hit the bestseller list. It has been said that the current recession makes many people think through what to do to survive the recession and pay more attention to business books. Besides that, it has been pointed out that another factor which has boosted the sales of the bestseller book is that it's written from a different, original viewpoint.

The title of the book is "If a female manager in a high school baseball club reads (or read) the book, " Management", written by Peter Ferdinand Drucker/「もし高校野球の女子マネージャーがドラッカーの『マネジメント』を読んだら". In the book, a high school girl joins her high school's baseball club as a manager. She is determined to make the baseball team strong enough to be able to win competitive preliminary matches and participate in the national high school baseball championship. One day, she happens to find the book "Management" written by Peter Drucker and manages to read through it, although she has a hard time understanding it. Then, she realize that his theories can apply to the baseball team, and tries to reform it based on those theories.

It's important yet difficult to break the theories down into understandable and manageable pieces. Although I haven't read the book yet, I'm sure that the book shows how to break it down and to apply it to your life. Actually, the book has attracted people who have little or no interest in business books as well. Thanks to the book, books written by Peter Drucker are enjoying good sales, as well.