Research Catalog

Title

A class with Drucker : the lost lessons of the world's greatest management teacher / by William A. Cohen.

Author

Cohen, William A., 1937-

Publication

New York : AMACOM/ American Management Association, [2008], ©2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005.

Description

xiv, 258 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Cohen, William A., 1937-
• Drucker, Peter F (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005
• Executives > Training of
• Management

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-252) and index.

Contents

What Peter Drucker Wrote About Bill Cohen -- 1. How I Became the Student of the Father of Modern Management -- 2. Drucker in the Classroom -- 3. What Everybody Knows Is Frequently Wrong -- 4. Self-Confidence Must Be Built Step-by-Step -- 5. If You Keep Doing What Worked in the Past You're Going to Fail -- 6. Approach Problems with Your Ignorance - Not Your Experience -- 7. Develop Expertise Outside Your Field to Be an Effective Manager -- 8. Outstanding Performance Is Inconsistent with Fear of Failure -- 9. The Objective of Marketing Is to Make Selling Unnecessary -- 10. Ethics, Honor, Integrity and the Law -- 11. You Can't Predict the Future, But You Can Create It -- 12. We're All Accountable -- 13. You Must Know Your People to Lead Them -- 14. People Have No Limits, Even After Failure -- 15. A Model Organization That Drucker Greatly Admired -- 16. The Management Control Panel -- 17. Base Your Strategy on the Situation, Not on a Formula -- 18. How to Motivate the Knowledge Worker -- 19. Drucker's Principles of Self-Development.

ISBN

• 9780814409190
• 0814409199

LCCN

2007020976

OCLC

• 133465547
• ocn133465547
• SCSB-9034979

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries