Art, Asian; Art, Japanese; Bennington College; Business consultants; Business, culture and change; College teaching; Consulting contracts United States; Education, Higher; Harvard University; Management Japan; Landscape painting, Japanese; Oral...
Edited draft, copy of the oral history transcript of Peter Drucker’s interview. Peter Drucker discusses his first teaching job in the United States and his teaching technique. He further details how he became involved in business consulting in...
Jonathan Club; Currency; Gold standard; Dollar, American; Retirement age; Knowledge workers; China
In this transcript of Peter Drucker’s speech, delivered to the Jonathan Club in 1967, Drucker discusses the changing world economy. He begins by discussing currency and the fluctuating value of the U.S. dollar. He goes on to discuss dropping...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Mental illness; Pollard, C. William; ServiceMaster Company; World War II; CARE Inc.; Women; Bower, Marvin, 1903-; General Motors Company; Medicine; Hospitals; Railroads; Rockefeller, David, 1915-;...
This is an oral history interview with Peter Drucker, conducted by Karen Linkletter. Drucker describes what he has learned about management from ServiceMaster and CARE, and about differences he has had while working with General Motors. He also...
Peter Drucker discusses his thoughts on various topics including the importance of experience for a young knowledge worker and the ineffectiveness of MBA programs on younger students. He goes on to discuss his career as a teacher and to explain...
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.
Accounting; Consumers; Ethics; Europe; Lectures and lecturing; Management; Self-management (Psychology)
A transcription of Drucker's lecture on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the International Executive Development Center entitled, "Manage Yourself and Then Your Company: Set an Example."
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Ueda, Atsuo, 1938-; Tables of contents; Books; Authorship; Management; Strategy; Leadership; Creative ability; Teams in the workplace; Technology; Knowledge workers
Peter Drucker writes Atsuo Ueda, of the Keizai Koho Center, saying that he is sending him parts of "Management Challenges for the 21st Century." The letter contains edits.
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Hoopes, James, 1944-; Authorship; Corporations; Labor unions; Deming, W. Edwards (William Edwards), 1900-1993; Juran, J. M. (Joseph M.), 1904-; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David),...
Peter Drucker writes James Hoopes, professor at Babson College, saying that he has attached a list of his publications. He says that the tardy acceptance of ideas such as quality management or empowerment in the United States was primarily because...
Memorandum; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Ellis, Charles D.; Smith, Rodger F.; Consultants; Consulting firms; Research; Greenwich Research Associates
John P. Rudy writes a memorandum to Charles Ellis, Allan Munro, and Rodger Smith, discussing the two topics that should be given priority attention, and a third agenda item for continuing reflection, based upon their session with Peter Drucker.
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Greenwich Research Associates; Meetings; Consultants; Consulting firms; Smith, Rodger F.; Research
Allan F. Munro, executive vice president of Greenwich Research Associates, writes Peter Drucker reflecting on the meeting with him. The letter contains notations.
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Management; Learning; Books; Simon, Hermann; Malik, Fredmund F.
Frank Arnold, Ph.D., writes Peter Drucker, asking what books Drucker finds most important in order to become an excellent manager. In Drucker's original handwritten response, he names the work of Hermann Simon and Fredmund Malik. The letter...
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-; Authorship; Books; Translations; Workmanship; Publishers and publishing; Quotations; Printing
Atsuo Ueda writes Peter Drucker saying that the first two volumes of "Drucker Sayings" will be published on July 31st. He includes some of his translations of Drucker's sayings and lists recent re-printings of Drucker's works according to...
Letters; Worthy, James C.; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Education; Continuing education; Nystrom, Paul H. (Paul Henry), 1878-1969; Schools; Education, Higher; United States; Europe; Teaching; Universities and colleges; College...
James C. Worthy writes Peter Drucker thanking him for his talk on "Education for a Free and Responsible Citizenship in Modern Society." Worthy says he found it highly useful in the preparation of his own paper on continuing education. Worthy...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Universities and colleges; Cost; Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.); Germany; France; Art; Psychology; Computers; Diagnosis; Mental illness; Children; Interviews; Oral biography; Linkletter, Karen E.
This is a section of an oral history interview with Peter Drucker, conducted by Karen Linkletter of the Claremont Graduate University. Drucker discusses the cost of university tuition, art history, and the diagnosis of mental illness in children....
Nonprofit organizations; Success; Money; Management; Knowledge workers; Rosenstein, Bruce
Peter Drucker discusses his thoughts on various topics including his observations of individuals who have made career decisions based upon being money-focused versus achievement-focused, and his own ability to continually re-invent himself. He goes...
Lectures and lecturing; Philosophers; Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855; Existentialism; Faith; Bennington College
A transcript of the 1943 May 20 lecture delivered at Bennington College entitled "Soren Kierkegaard: Or, How is Human Existence Possible?" by Peter Drucker.
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Kimizuka, Yoshirō, 1921-; Management; Authorship; Responsibility; Travel; Kosiol, Erich, 1899-; Liberman, E. G. (Evseĭ Grigor'evich); Soviet Union
The commentary on the copies of documents which were part of Yoshirō Kimizuka's speech delivered at the annual meeting of the Accounting Theory Association on October, 22, 2005 in Tokyo, Japan.
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Hesselbein, Frances; Claremont Graduate School; Nonprofit organizations; Careers; National Executive Service Corps; Buford, Bob; Schubert, Richard F.; American Management Association
David A. Jones, co-founder and chairman emeritus of Humana, writes Tamara Keefe-Do, saying that he has enclosed a letter dated 1990 October 26 from Peter Drucker discussing concentration areas of his foundation. Jones' letter is handwritten and...
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Bachmann, John W.; Meetings; Books; Edward D. Jones & Co.; Stockholders; Success
Peter Drucker writes John W. Bachmann, managing partner of Edward D. Jones & Company, saying that he hopes to pull together the main themes of their day on February 12, and the main themes in the comments and personal objectives of the the partners...
