November 4, 2009 – Computer World – Framingham, MA, US
Most people think of Peter Drucker as a business visionary, and for good reason. Drucker, whose 100th birthday is being celebrated posthumously this month, was a renowned management professor and consultant, retained by some of the biggest and most powerful companies, including General Electric, Procter & Gamble and IBM. He was also a prolific writer, having published 39 books on management and penned a column for The Wall Street Journal for 20 years, in addition to writing for Forbes, Fortune, The Atlantic and other leading publications.
No one questions Drucker’s impact on the business world. But what many people may not realize is that the “father of modern management” had as much to say about self-management and personal development as he did about innovation and organizational effectiveness, says Bruce Rosenstein, author of Living in More Than One World: How Peter Drucker’s Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life (Berrett-Koehler, August 2009.)
Rosenstein, a former business writer and librarian for USA Today, is a bona fide Drucker devotee, having studied Drucker’s work since 1986. He’s read every book by or about Drucker, and he conducted one of the last face-to-face interviews with Drucker seven months before his death in November, 2005. Rosenstein says personal development was a recurring theme in Drucker’s work dating back to the early 1950s, and that Drucker was a paragon of practicing what he preached.
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