Letters; National Citizens' Commission (U.S.); Presidents United States; White House (Washington, D.C.)
After Drucker is invited to serve as a member of the National Citizens Commission to support International Cooperation Year, United States President Lyndon B. Johnson tells Drucker he would be grateful if he lent his support.
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Smiddy, Harold F., 1900-1978; Cordiner, Ralph J.; General Foods Corporation; General Electric Company; Society for Advancement of Management
This is a letter from Peter Drucker to Harold Smiddy. Drucker compliments Smiddy on the paper he presented at the recent SAM conference. He also discusses a talk given by Mr. Johnson. Drucker gives his own interpretation of Mr. Johnson's speech and...
Lectures and lecturing; Amazon.com (Firm); Books; Electronic commerce; Internet; Marketing channels; Mutual funds; Television broadcasting of news; Newspapers; Social security; Retirement age; Immigrants; Labor productivity; Knowledge workers;...
Peter Drucker discusses management challenges for the 21st century for the Executive Management Series. During his talk, he covers: the publication of his newest book, the existence of a global economy due to e-commerce, the Internet as a...
Lectures and lecturing; Management; General Motors Corporation; Consulting firms
During Peter Drucker’s lecture regarding the change leader he begins by discussing the students' final papers and offering them his comments and advice. He then shares a brief history of the consulting profession, which began to achieve success...
Lectures and lecturing; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; Hypothesis; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Civil war; Decision making; Chinese; Poliomyelitis; Political science - Philosophy; Fortune; Associations, institutions, etc.; Conflict...
Peter Drucker lectures about effective decisions. During his talk, he discusses: Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War, questioning the basic assumptions if a decision doesn’t work out, the risk of surgery, the political philosophy of politicians,...
Lectures and lecturing; Management; Cartoons & Comics; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; Learning
During Peter Drucker’s lecture regarding knowledge and knowledge workers he begins by discussing a comic strip that he handed out to the class during a previous lecture. He then explains how in pre-World War II Japan it was considered subversive...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Public administration; Government agencies; Performance; Civil service; Politicians; Power (Social sciences); Illegal aliens; Immigrants; Education; Ford Motor Company; Toyota automobiles; Johnson &...
This is an audio recording of the question and answer portion of the first in a series of lectures by Drucker, given on September 26, 1989. The questions Peter addresses lead him to talk about things such as the public sector, motivation, job...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Sales; Sales personnel; Hospitals; Women; Administration; Nurses; Quality control; Pasadena (Calif.); Church; Endowments; Master of business administration degree; Entrepreneurship; Citibank (New...
This is part five of an audio recording of a class on entrepreneurship and innovation taught by Peter Drucker. In this section he focuses most of his discussion on innovation. Drucker states that it is very important to have both management and...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Harmon, Frederick G.; American Management Association; Citibank (New York, N.Y.); Entrepreneurship; Procter & Gamble Company; Johnson & Johnson; General Electric Company; Supply and demand; Customer...
This is the second part of an interview of Peter Drucker by Fred Harmon on his book about innovation and entrepreneurship. In this segment they focus on the practice of entrepreneurship. The discussion examines entrepreneurship in three different...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Management; Executives; Inflation (Finance); Money; Accountants; Stock exchanges; General Electric Company; Johnson & Johnson; Economists; Automation; Resource allocation; Farms; Business; Profit;...
This is a recording about what to do while managing in turbulent times. The narrator states that more than in other times, fundamentals of liquidity, productivity and the costs of the future have to be managed well for tomorrow. It is important to...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Lectures and lecturing; New York University. Graduate School of Business Administration; Craig, C. Samuel; Questioning; Debts, Public; Markets; Money; Fishing; Economics; Investments; Japan; Foreign...
This is side A of the fifth tape from the annual Drucker Symposium of 1987. This recording is from day two of the conference, on April 30, 1987. Sam Craig is the moderator and Don Nicholson is the panelist. This is the Q&A segment. They cover...
After creating a synthesis of Drucker's ideas, practices and principles, Cass Canfield, Jr. of HarperCollins, suggests selling the synthesis on audio cassettes and in paperback as an introduction to Drucker's management ideas and philosophy.
Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management; Publishers and publishing; Letters
Noelle Ray, assistant editor of Executive Excellence Publishing, asks Drucker to look over a proposed article that contains a transcription of his foundation's awards ceremony speech.
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Fundación Compromiso; Teaching; Presidential Medal of Freedom; Hesselbein, Frances; Nonprofit organizations; Iraq; Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management; Leader to Leader Institute;...
In this letter Peter Drucker discusses the end of his teaching career. He informs Carolina Biquard that he is no longer teaching full time and from now on will only do so on special occasions. He also tells of his receiving the Presidential Medal...
Lectures and lecturing; Printing; Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931; Government policy; New Deal, 1933-1939; Bower, Marvin, 1903-; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Miracles; Decision making; Sloan,...
Peter Drucker lectures to his class. During his talk, he discusses: the printing press and monasteries as copy plants, Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, creative imitation, the difficulty of government abandonment, innovation and organized...
