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...
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...
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...
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.
Business consultants; Business ethics; Business planning; Letters
James M. Vardaman, president of James M. Vardaman & Co., Inc., writes the editor of the Wall Street Journal sharing how Drucker influenced his business.
Authors and publishers; Manuscript preparation (Authorship); Letters
Drucker writes Dr. Guido Stein, Secretario General at the Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona, Spain regarding Stein's article about Drucker. He discusses the corrections he has made to Stein's manuscript and the publishing of other works about...
Lectures and lecturing; Management; Toyota automobiles; American Honda Motor Company
During Peter Drucker’s lecture regarding the effective manager he begins by explaining that one of the great weaknesses of traditional management is that it is inwardly focused. He then defines the word “marketing” as the way to look at your...
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Nonprofit organizations; Entrepreneurship; Abdullah II, King of Jordan, 1962-; Jordan; Congresses and conventions; Associations, institutions, etc.
Nour Kabariti, project manager of the Young Entrepreneurs Association, writes Peter Drucker introducing his organization and saying that the association would be honored if Drucker could address the main conference as a spotlight speaker on the...
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-; Authorship; Entrepreneurs; Translations; Manuscripts; Books; Executives; Management; Interviews; Magazines; Publishers and publishing; Tables of contents; Prefaces;...
Atsuo Ueda writes Peter Drucker discussing his editing and translation work on "Entrepreneurs." He asks that Drucker write a short message as encouragement for entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs in the form of a preface. Ueda goes on to...
Management by objectives;
Organizational change;
Organization - Research;
Industrial relations;
Organization;
Executives - Training of;
Psychology, Industrial;
Management
In this audio recording Peter F. Drucker talks about his audio book, “Drucker on Management.” This is the second part of a two-part discussion entitled “The Literate Manager.” He begins by describing the differences between top managers...
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...
Letters; Sears, Roebuck and Company; Union Pacific Railroad Company
James C. Worthy addresses the issue of industrial development and the role Sears will play in assisting small towns in the United States, such as Kearney, Nebraska, to move away from depending solely on agricultural resources.
Ray Houdtzagers, a program manager for the American Management Association, thanks Drucker for his satellite broadcast presentation and includes comments from some of the viewers. Contains Houdtzagers' original signature.
Congresses and conventions; Public Relations Society of America; Letters
Hale Nelson sends Drucker a draft he plans to send out and asks for suggestions on the content. In it, he asks Drucker if he would be one of the principal speakers at the Public Relations Society of America's 9th annual meeting and lists what is...
Accounting; Aerojet-General Corporation. Von Karman Center. Life Systems Division; Business cycles; Business; Conflict management; Mathematical models; McGregor, Douglas; Mechanics, Analytic; Oral biography; United States. Dept. of Defense....
Bradley Jacobs, former Orange County assessor, discusses his professional relationship with Peter Drucker. Jacobs describes how he applied Drucker's theories in the public and private sector.
Shirley Herold, administrative assistant to the president of BNA Communications Inc., writes Janis Bragan Balda, attorney for the Peter F. Drucker Graduate Management Center, listing the four video series that have been produced with Drucker. ...
Congresses and conventions; Letters; Gratitude; Influence (Psychology)
Shirley Wilkins, of An Intelligent Word, a secretarial service, writes Drucker telling him what a privilege it has been transcribing tapes of a leadership/management conference he attended as a guest speaker. She goes on to write that she will try...
Shinichi Uesaka, production supervisor of Diamond, Inc., sends Jonathan W. Palmer, director of corporate relations of Claremont Graduate School, a list of Japanese seminar participants and comments on his group's visit.
