Lectures and lecturing; Planning; Education; Surveys; Social security; Life expectancy; United States. Small Business Administration; Entrepreneurship; Banks and banking; Teaching; Successful people; Rain Bird Sprinkler Manufacturing Corporation;...
Peter Drucker advises his students on the planning process during a lecture on the next society. He encourages them to begin the journey with the destination and not with the starting point. He then talks about money management, education,...
Lectures and lecturing; Management; Nonprofit organizations; Medical care; Hospitals; Accounting
During Peter Drucker’s lecture regarding non-profit management he begins by discussing the final paper of the course in which the students examine either their own non-profit organization or a case from their textbook. He advises them that the...
Lectures and lecturing; Management; Nonprofit organizations; Church and state; Volunteer
During Peter Drucker’s lecture regarding managing the non-profit organization he begins by discussing turnaround situations and stresses the importance of focusing on goals and outcomes; making an analogy to curing illnesses in the human body. ...
Lectures and lecturing; Management; Edsel automobile; General Motors Corporation; Customer services; Hewlett-Packard Company; Caterpillar Inc.; Deregulation; Electricity; Medical care; Aspirin
During Peter Drucker’s lecture regarding the change leader he begins by suggesting to his students that they examine their organizations by asking the question: If you were not already doing what you are doing, and started fresh would you...
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...
Lectures and lecturing; Management; Pontiac automobile; General Motors Company; General Electric Company; Sears, Roebuck and Company
During Peter Drucker’s lecture regarding the effective manager he begins by discussing his work with General Motors Company and Pontiac during the post-World War II period. He describes the contrasting cultures of Pontiac and GMC, tracing them...
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Ueda, Atsuo, 1938-; Japan; Population; Postal savings banks; Banks and banking
Peter Drucker writes Atsuo Ueda, managing director of the Keizai Koho Center, requesting to verify a few figures about age and population in Japan, and the Postal Savings Bank. The letter contains edits.
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...
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Buford, Bob; Church; Leadership; Medical care; American Management Association; Clergy; Professional employees; Volunteers; Quality control
Peter Drucker writes Bob Buford, chairman of the board, and chief executive officer, of Buford Television, Inc., summing up the day they shared discussing the creation of a new mode by Evangelicals. The letter contains edits.
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Greenwich Research Associates; Consulting firms; Consultants; Banks and banking; Mortgage brokers; Itineraries; Travel
Peter Drucker writes Allan F. Munro, executive vice president of Greenwich Research Associates, saying that he has been going over his notes in respect to his relationship with Greenwich Research Associates, and has come up with two points in which...
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Ueda, Atsuo, 1938-; College administrators; Universities and colleges; Fund raising; Keizai Kōhō Sentā (Tokyo, Japan); Nihon Keizai Dantai Rengōkai; Books; Publishers and publishing;...
Atsuo Ueda writes Peter Drucker saying that he is mainly working at The Foundation for the Promotion of Craft and Technology as a director. He also discusses his work translating Drucker's books.
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Ueda, Atsuo, 1938-; Magazines; Authorship; Translations; Learning; Management
Atsuo Ueda writes Peter Drucker thanking him for his foreword to the Drucker sayings volume on individuals. He informs Drucker that his classes on management have started and that he has been exercising at Gold's Gym. The letter contains Ueda's...
Magazines; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Evolution; Tools; Mathematics; Technology; Assembly-line methods; Middle Ages; Society for the History of Technology
This is a reprint of an article written by Peter Drucker for Technology and Culture, Vol. I, No. I, Winter 1959. Drucker states that society uses limited definitions of technology and that it is more than simply mechanical artifacts. He goes on to...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Lectures and lecturing; Chrysler automobile; Automobile industry and trade; Manufacturing processes; Engineers; General Motors automobiles; Labor; Cotton; Farms; Cost; Steel industry and trade;...
This is side B of the sixth tape of recordings of a course taught by Peter Drucker in 1978. This was recorded on February 28. In this recording Drucker discusses data processing, manufacturing, production, and marketing processes of several...
In preparation of James Worthy's visit, Drucker gives him directions to Estes Park, Colorado. Letter contains handwritten notes and Drucker's original signature.
Congresses and conventions; Letters; Social organization
Drucker is unhappy that he will not be able to attend a symposium honoring James Worthy' work and career in person. He goes on to say that he has known Worthy for more than forty years and that Worthy was the first person to point out the...
Accounting; Aerojet-General Corporation. Von Karman Center. Life Systems Division; Business cycles; Business; Conflict management; Mathematical models; McGregor, Douglas; Mechanics, Analytic; United States. Dept. of Defense. Independent Research...
One of two edited draft copies, contains corrections by Bradley Jacobs of his oral history interview. Bradley Jacobs, former Orange County assessor, discusses his professional relationship with Peter Drucker and how Jacobs applied his theories in...
After receiving a generous donation from General Electric to the Peter F. Drucker Archives and the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, Drucker thanks John F. Welch, Chairman and CEO of the General...
Accounting; Aerojet-General Corporation. Von Karman Center. Life Systems Division; Business cycles; Business; Conflict management; Mathematical models; McGregor, Douglas; Mechanics, Analytic; United States. Dept. of Defense. Independent Research...
One of two edited draft copies, with notes by Bradley Jacobs, of his oral history interview. Bradley Jacobs, former Orange County assessor, discusses his professional relationship with Peter Drucker and how Jacobs applied his theories in the...
Yang Anxian, the Director and senior engineer for the Bureau of Science and Technology Policy at the Chinese Academy of Sciences describes her management training in the 1980's where she had the first opportunity to read Drucker's books and goes on...
