During Peter Drucker’s lecture regarding the effective manager he begins by discussing his book called “The Effective Executive” which focuses on the behavior of the manager, whereas he explains the course by the same name focuses on the...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Kimizuka, Yoshirō, 1921-; Japan; Economy and society; Management; General Motors Corporation; Economic development; Capitalism; Banks and banking; Letters; Books; Depreciation; Saving and investment;...
A reprint of the Report of Denkitsushin University, volume 16; 1965, entitled, "The Question of Profit: to be or not to be" by Yoshirō Kimizuka. Major contents include: letters to and from Drucker related to the title, and a brief analysis of the...
Lectures and lecturing; Management; Monopolies; Economists; Nobel, Alfred Bernhard, 1833-1896; Dynamite; Nobel prizes - History; Telephone History; Hosiery, Nylon; Nylon; Rayon; E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company; Education; Sony Corporation; Human...
During Peter Drucker’s lecture regarding the change leader he begins by talking about exploiting success. He then shares with the class four different stories and then asks his students to think about how the companies and people in the stories...
Lectures and lecturing; Management; Cartoons & Comics; Social security; Retirement; Computers; Feminism; Smallpox vaccine
During Peter Drucker’s lecture regarding knowledge and knowledge workers he begins by circulating a liberal cartoon that was printed in the "Los Angles Times" and explains to the class that the comic will be their textbook for the class because...
Stahl, Friedrich Julius, 1802-1861; Conservatism; Germany; Religion; Philosophy
The English translation of Peter Drucker's monograph, "Friedrich Julius Stahl Konservative Staatslehre und Geschichtliche Entwicklung," by Martin Chalmers.
Authorship; Lectures and lecturing; Speeches, addresses, etc.
Drucker is the 28th lecturer in The Claremont Colleges Annual Lecture Series. In his published informal talks, "Why We Are Not Making Much Progress," Drucker identifies three major misunderstandings of environmental advocates and problems...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Interviews; Curtis Publishing Company; Investment banking; Knowledge workers
In this interview, John Veronis begins by discussing his work with American Home Magazine. He then relates how his growing interest in the business behind publishing led him to seek a better understanding of what he terms, “The business of...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Interviews; ServiceMaster Foundation; China; Education; Pollard, C. William
In this interview, Ming Lo Shao, head of the non-profit organizations, Bright China Management Institute and Bright China Foundation, discusses his work with Peter Drucker. He begins by describing his work with both Bright China Organizations and...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Interviews; Ellis, Charles D.; Management consulting; Consulting contracts United States; Greenwich Associates (Firm); Philosophers; Philosophy; General Motors Corporation
Charles Ellis is founder of Greenwich Associates, a strategy consulting firm focused on financial institutions. In this interview, Ellis discusses his experiences with Peter Drucker and the consulting work he did for Greenwich Associates over a...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Interviews; Pollard, C. William; ServiceMaster Foundation; Herman Miller, Inc.; Nonprofit organizations; Business Japan; Consultants; Religion and business ethics
Bill Pollard is Chairman of the Board of the ServiceMaster Foundation and serves as a director of Herman Miller, Inc. In addition, he also serves as a trustee and/or director for several educational, religious and non-profit organizations such as,...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Interviews; Simon, Hermann; Consultants; Management; Management consultants; Philosophy; Vienna; Germany; Education Germany; Human capital
Hermann Simon is Chairman of Simon-Kucher & Partners, an international consulting company. In this interview Simon discusses his relationship with Peter Drucker and what he has learned from his teachings. He maintains that the most important thing...
Lectures and lecturing; Management; Education; Charities; Charity organization; Nonprofit organizations; March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation; Salvation Army; China; Missionaries; Jaffa, Harry V.
During Peter Drucker’s lecture regarding managing the non-profit organization he discusses the importance of governance and explains that the importance of governance is to be effective and not to be powerful and that its motivating factor is...
Lectures and lecturing; Management; Education; Nonprofit organizations; Writing; Education; Universities and colleges; Social classes
During Peter Drucker’s lecture regarding new demands on the executive he begins by discussing the process of writing and offers his students his advice on the writing process. He then discusses the misconception of history that America has been a...
Lectures and lecturing; Management; Education; Nonprofit organizations; Ford, Henry, 1863-1947; Economics; Tools; Technology; Science; Space race
During Peter Drucker’s lecture regarding new demands on the executive he begins by discussing the new demands that confront an organization and that an executive must learn to handle and compares them to old demands on the executive, such as,...
Lectures and lecturing; Management; Education; Nonprofit organizations; Land settlement patterns; California History; Suburbs; Water; General Motors Corporation
During Peter Drucker’s lecture regarding new demands on the executive he begins by discussing the company Rainbird and its basic assumptions that the state of California is a desert populated with residents who desire to maintain a high pattern...
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...
Lectures and lecturing; Management; Teaching; Nursing
During Peter Drucker’s lecture regarding knowledge and knowledge workers he begins by discussing self-development and how to discover one’s personal strengths and capitalize on them in business. He then launches into a discussion on how to...
Management; Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management; Teaching; Research
In this interview Sid Harris discusses the mission of the Drucker Center. He explains that at the Center they seek to advance the practice of management through teaching and research, which they have done by building a quality faculty and student...
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Ueda, Atsuo, 1938-; Books; Weather; Japan; Management; Political science; Banks and banking; Finance; Information revolution; Knowledge workers
Peter Drucker writes Mr. Atsuo Ueda, executive director of the Institute of Technologists, saying that the message to Japanese readers of "The Essential Drucker" is attached. In the message, Drucker discusses the role of government in...
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Books; Authorship; Anniversaries; American Management Association; Tables of contents; Prefaces; Translations; Publishers and publishing
Peter Drucker writes Atsuo Ueda, of the Keizai Koho Center, discussing the completion of book chapters and the use of a different name for the Japanese version of his book.
