What Would Drucker Do Now?: Solutions to Today’s Toughest Challenges from the Father of Modern Management

Foreword

I grew up with Peter Drucker. My father spent 25 years in human resources management at General Electric and another decade leading HR at Chase Manhattan Bank. He met Peter at GE’s Crotonville training center in the 1950s and always had Peter’s books in his study at home. When I was in college, I would occasionally flip through classics like The Effective Executive and The Practice of Management.

But I didn’t get serious about Drucker until I was in my mid-20s and responsible for the Navy Exchange Service and retail operations at the U.S. air base in Atsugi, Japan. This was my first real business job, and I needed a business education fast. Drucker was it.

Almost 30 years later—after the navy, Harvard Business School, and more than 22 ...