Long considered the world's greatest thinker and writer on management, Peter Drucker's teachings continue to inspire leaders everywhere. From 1975 to 1979, author William Cohen studied under the Great Man and became the first graduate of his doctoral program. What Drucker taught him literally changed his life. In a matter of a few years, he was recommissioned in the Air Force and rose to the rank of major general. Eventually, he became a full professor, management consultant, multibook author, and university president--as well as maintaining a nearly lifelong friendship with the master.In "A Class with Drucker", Cohen shares many of Drucker's teachings that never made it into his countless books and articles, ideas that were offered to his students in classroom or informal settings. Cohen expands on Drucker's lessons with personal anecdotes about his teacher's personality, lack of pretension, and interactions with students and others. He also shows how Drucker's ideas can be applied to the real-world challenges managers face today. Enlightening and intriguing, "A Class with Drucker" will enable anyone to gain from the timeless wisdom of the inspiring man himself.
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William A. Cohen, Ph.D. (Pasadena, CA) is an authority on leadership and strategy formulation and deployment. He gives speeches and seminars for the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, the Air War College, the FBI Academy, all four armed services, and corporations from Boeing to The Cheesecake Factory. He is the author of many books including The New Art of the Leader, The Wisdom of the Generals, and How to Make It Big as a Consultant (978-0-8144-7073-2).
CONTENTS Acknowledgments and Dedicationvii What Peter Drucker Wrote About Bill Cohenviii Foreword by Ira Jacksonix Introductionxiii 1 How I Became the Student of the Father of Modern Management1 2 Drucker in the Classroom11 3 What Everybody Knows Is Frequently Wrong19 4 Self-Confidence Must Be Built Step-by-Step30 5 If You Keep Doing What Worked in the Past You're Going to Fail44 6 Approach Problems with Your Ignorance- Not Your Experience57 7 Develop Expertise Outside Your Field to Be an Effective Manager69 8 Outstanding Performance Is Inconsistent with Fear of Failure82 9 The Objective of Marketing Is to Make Selling Unnecessary96 10 Ethics, Honor, Integrity and the Law108 11 You Can't Predict the Future, But You Can Create It121 12 We're All Accountable133 13 You Must Know Your People to Lead Them147 14 People Have No Limits, Even After Failure160 15 A Model Organization That Drucker Greatly Admired173 16 The Management Control Panel189 17 Base Your Strategy on the Situation, Not on a Formula201 18 How to Motivate the Knowledge Worker215 19 Drucker's Principles of Self-Development 231 Afterword246 Notes249 Books by and About Peter Drucker252 Index253
