Chapter Three. What Everybody Knows Is Frequently Wrong
My first class with Peter Drucker met in the fall of 1975. I didn’t know what to expect. Drucker was a world-famous celebrity. I was a young man with limited business experience. Needless to say, I was more than a little intimidated with the thought of dealing with this prominent professor face-to-face.
I was actually taking two courses with Peter that first term. The other class had yet to meet. It was to meet Wednesday night in the faculty club, and Peter and the dean, Paul Albrecht, were teamed as instructors. It was open only to the ten students in the new doctoral program for practicing executives.
However, this was Monday night, and the class was entitled “Module 300: The Management Process.” ...
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