Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way: Developing and Applying a Forward-Focused Mindset

CHAPTER 3BECOME YOUR OWN SUCCESSOR

Where do you see yourself at 95? That is not an unreasonable question these days. Peter Drucker lived until eight days before his 96th birthday, in 2005, and he was productive until nearly the end of his life. When I interviewed him at the Drucker Archives in Claremont, California, in April 2005, I brought up the notion of his being such an important role model to 21st-century knowledge workers. I mentioned that just in the year leading up to our interview, his book The Daily Drucker, which became one of his most popular works, was released, and he had been published in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Foreign Affairs, and elsewhere. That high-profile, highly productive output would be tough ...