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Institute releases inaugural edition of Drucker-in-High-Schools newsletter

The Drucker Institute has released the inaugural edition of its Drucker-in-High-Schools newsletter.

The Drucker-in-High-Schools program is an initiative of the Drucker Society Global Network—a collection of all-volunteer organizations that draw on Peter Druckers vast body of work to bring about positive change in their local communities.

To see how you can get involved with a Drucker Society where you live, click here.

7/10

'Drucker Apps' 7/9/10: Empty Nest Eggs

The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University today added a new topic to Drucker Apps, an ongoing conversation about bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership.

This latest addition to Drucker Apps was inspired by beverage giant Diageo’s move last week to transfer 2.5 million barrels of aging whiskey, valued at $645 million, to help plug the deficit faced by its pension fund.

Taking part in this running dialogue on the future of retirement security will be bestselling author Roger Lowenstein; human resources consultant Ed Gubman; former U.S. Treasury official Alicia Munnell and others with insights into the issue.

As with every installment of Drucker Apps, this online dialogue is informed by the words of Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management. In this way, Drucker Apps ties the timeless wisdom of one of the great thinkers and writers of the 20th century to the hottest issues of today, all delivered by the latest in 21st-century technology.

A student of corporate finance and demographics, Peter Drucker warned as early as 1950 that “the security which the new pensions contracts promise the old and aging employee will prove to be mere ‘pie in the sky.’” By 2001, he noted that “young and middle-aged people at work suspect that there will not be enough pension money to go round when they themselves reach traditional retirement age.”

We invite you to join our Drucker Apps conversation about pensions. We open things up with this question: How confident are you that you will see your full pension—and, if you’re worried about it, how do you think you’ll make ends meet in your old age? To participate, please visit: apps.druckerinstitute.com.

7/10

The Economist reports on the smashing success of the Drucker baseball book in Japan

In an article titled "Drucker in the dug-out," The Economist has noted the smashing success of Natsumi Iwasaki’s book, What If a Female Manager of a High School Baseball Team Read Drucker’s "Management"?, which has now sold more than 1 million copies.

The novel tells the story of a student named Minami Kawashima, who becomes the manager of the struggling baseball team at her school, Tokyo’s Hodokubo High. After she reads Drucker's 1973 classic, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, Minani turns the team around.

The Economist noted that in Japan, "Women remain an underused asset: only 61% of them work, their average income is less than half that of men and they occupy barely 1% of boardroom seats. If Drucker, with the help of a headstrong teenager, can posthumously change that, it would be his greatest gift to Japan."

To read the full article, please click here. To read an earlier piece on the book in Bloomberg Businessweek, by Drucker Institute Executive Director Rick Wartzman, click here.

7/10

The Drucker Society of Europe launches an essay contest on continuity and change

The Drucker Society of Europe announced that it has launched the "Peter Drucker Challenge," an essay contest on the future of management and society. To enter, you must be 35 years or younger.

The overarching theme of the contest is one that lies at the heart of Peter Drucker’s writing: "Continuity and Change—Balancing Innovation and Time-Tested Practices."

"We want to hear from young people about to enter the workforce or already with some firsthand experience in companies, organizations, or as young entrepreneurs," said Richard Straub, the president of the Drucker Society of Europe, an affiliate of the Drucker Institute. "Where do they see the biggest and most realistic opportunities for innovation and change? How can we be successful in managing those changes?"

The authors of the top three essays—as judged by a group of business executives, academics, students and members of the Drucker Society—will be flown to Vienna and invited to participate on November 18 and 19 in a global forum titled "Managing in the Next Society." Winners will also be invited to take part in a senior executive symposium on November 17. Up to 40 authors of other high-quality essays, meanwhile, will also be given free access to the forum.

Essays should be from 1,500 to 3,000 words long. For more details, please click here. For more on the Drucker forum in Vienna, which is being sponsored by the Drucker Society of Austria, click here.

7/10

The Drucker Institute releases July/August 2010 newsletter

The Drucker Institute has just released the July/August 2010 issue of The Window, which features:

Seven lessons for leadership in turbulent times
A new book of Drucker's lectures
The May 2010 event that brought the world to Claremont

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7/10

'Drucker Apps' 6/24/10: Off The Leaderboard

This latest addition to Drucker Apps was inspired by the recent Capitol Hill appearance of British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward —and the questions now swirling about Hayward’s leadership.

Taking part in this running dialogue will be former Southwest and Braniff Airlines CEO Howard Putnam; Stanford University professor and author Jeffrey Pfeffer; and others with insights into effective leadership.

As with every installment of Drucker Apps, this online dialogue is informed by the words of Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management. In this way, Drucker Apps ties the timeless wisdom of one of the great thinkers and writers of the 20th century to the hottest issues of today, all delivered by the latest in 21st-century technology.

The way Peter Drucker saw things, accepting responsibility is one of the primary requirements of any leader. The best “see leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege,” Drucker wrote. “Effective leaders are rarely ‘permissive.’ But when things go wrong—and they always do—they do not blame others. . . . An effective leader knows that he, and no one else, is ultimately responsible.”

We invite you to join our Drucker Apps conversation about leadership. We open things up with this question: What leader have you read about or personally worked with who best exemplifies the buck-stops-here standard? To participate, please visit: apps.druckerinstitute.com.

6/10

Bestselling author Marshall Goldsmith to speak at the Drucker Business Forum

Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author and renowned executive coach, will discuss his latest book, Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back if You Lose It, at the Drucker Business Forum on June 17.

Goldsmith, ranked by The Times of London as one of the 15 greatest management thinkers in the world, will be in conversation with Rick Wartzman, executive director of the Drucker Institute.

The event will be held at the Crawford Family Forum at KPCC, 474 South Raymond Ave., Pasadena, Calif. 91105. Breakfast will be served at 7:45 a.m., and the main program starts at 8:30.

To RSVP, please email Ted Habte-Gabr at ted@druckerbusinessforum.org.

This conversation has been designated part of the Drucker Centennial, which marks the 100th birthday of Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management; author of 39 books on organizational behavior, innovation, economy, and society; and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The two-year celebration features conferences, lectures and other events around the world. For more information on the Drucker Centennial, please click here.

The Drucker Business Forum is a program of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management. The Drucker Institute serves as a strategic partner. For more information, please click here.

6/10

'Drucker Apps' 6/11/10: Name Your Game

This latest addition to Drucker Apps was inspired by today's kick off of the 2010 FIFA World Cup just as the NBA finals head to a pivotal fifth game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics. Drucker Apps explores the business lessons that sports can teach us about teamwork.

Taking part in this running dialogue will be former UCLA basketball player and television executive Andy Hill; Portuguese management writer Jorge Vasconcellos e Sá, a professor at the University of Lisbon and a trained soccer coach; and others with insights into the art of coordination and collaboration.

“There are only three kinds of teams,” Peter Drucker wrote. The first, he said, is the sort that plays doubles tennis—where “each member adapts to . . . the other member.” The second is more like soccer. “Each player has a fixed position; but the whole moves together,” Drucker explained. Finally, there is the baseball team “in which all the members have fixed positions.”

We invite you to join our Drucker Apps conversation about teamwork. We open things up with this question: What style of team do you have within your organization—tennis, soccer, baseball or some other model—and is it effective? To participate, please visit: apps.druckerinstitute.com.

6/10

Registration now open for Drucker forum in Vienna, “Managing in the Next Society,” Nov. 18-19

The Drucker Society of Austria has announced that it is accepting early-bird registration for its global forum, titled "Managing in the Next Society," to be held in Vienna on November 18 and 19.

To learn more about the forum, please click here. To see the preliminary program, click here. And to register at a discount, click here.

The forum will seek to address key questions such as:

What will the next society be like? What does this mean for management?
How can we unleash the latent productive and creative energies of people in organizations? Will Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and new media finally fulfill their promise to enable and empower management and workers?
Do we have the management capabilities in our institutions and organizations to achieve a step change in innovation and value creation?
What can we learn from emerging economies?
Given the daunting challenges ahead, do we need to reinvent the practice of management? Or do we need to better apply the basic management principles that have already been defined by Peter Drucker and others?

Leading the discussion on these and other topics will be leaders from business, academia, the nonprofit arena and the public sector. Among them will be futurist Matthias Horx; the London Business School's Lynda Gratton; Julian Birkinshaw, author of Reinventing Management: Smarter Choices for Getting Work Done; Adrian Wooldridge of The Economist; Andrew Keen, a close observer of Internet culture; and Norwegian economist Peter Lorange. Also taking part will be Rick Wartzman, executive director of the Drucker Institute.

The Vienna forum is part of the Drucker Centennial, a global celebration marking the 100th anniversary of Peter Drucker's birth. To learn more and to see a full calendar of Centennial events, please click here.

6/10

'Drucker Apps' 5/28/10: Loud and Clear?

This latest addition to Drucker Apps was inspired by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent admission that his company had “missed the mark” by failing to provide adequate privacy measures for users.

Taking part in this running dialogue will be renowned leadership expert Ken Blanchard; tech blogger Robert Scoble; and others with insights into consumer behavior.

“What the people in the business think they know about customer and market is more likely to be wrong than right. There is only one person who really knows: the customer,” Drucker wrote in his 1964 book Managing for Results.

We invite you to join our Drucker Apps conversation about delivering the customer what he or she values. We open things up with this question: Has Facebook really listened to the customer, as Drucker prescribed, or has it fallen short? To participate, please visit: apps.druckerinstitute.com.

5/10

The Essential Drucker to be published in Arabic

The Essential Drucker, a compilation of Peter F. Drucker's most important writings that Drucker himself helped put together, will be released later this year in Arabic.

"The Essential Drucker is his finest book—indeed his crowning achievement," said James Maughan, director of Librarie du Liban Publishers, which is translating the work and bringing it to market. "Drucker taught that management is 'a liberal art' and infused his management advice with interdisciplinary lessons from history, sociology, psychology, and religion. His eminent writings show how management plays an intrinsic role in every aspect of modern society."

The Arabic-language version of The Essential Drucker will be available at booksellers in all Arab countries, and also at many libraries and universities.

5/10

Drucker Institute plays host to representatives from 18 countries at the Drucker Society Symposium

More than 50 people from 18 countries gathered in Claremont at the Drucker Society Global Symposium from May 20-22 to discuss how they could best implement Peter Drucker’s teachings in their communities in order to help local institutions become more effectively managed and responsibly led.

All of those in attendance are currently members or interested in becoming members of Drucker Societies—all-volunteer organizations that deliver a slate of programs developed in conjunction with the Drucker Institute.

These programs include a training session on effectiveness for nonprofit and NGO leaders; a presentation on social responsibility geared to corporate executives; a book club in which participants track how they are personally implementing Drucker’s concepts; a workshop on innovation and entrepreneurship; a workshop on leadership; and a Drucker-in-High-Schools program in which 10th-, 11th- and 12th-graders learn basic management skills and then apply them to a community-service project—and ultimately to their own lives.

“At the symposium, Society leaders could clearly see that their divergent communities could all benefit from Peter Drucker's universal insights,” said Lawrence Greenspun, the Drucker Institute program manager who oversees the Drucker Society Network. “While the specifics of how our programs would most effectively be delivered might vary from country to country, Drucker’s lessons on social responsibility, effective management, innovation and entrepreneurship, and leadership resonated across cultures. Peter really serves as a common language that supersedes borders and sectors, and that speaks to something on a very basic human, organizational and societal level.”

For more information on joining or starting a Drucker Society in your community, please click here.

5/10

Kenneth Hopper and William Hopper, authors of The Puritan Gift, are named Writers-in-Residence at the Drucker Institute

The Drucker Institute announced that Kenneth Hopper and William Hopper, co-authors of the highly acclaimed book The Puritan Gift, have been named Writers-in-Residence.

The Puritan Gift, which explores how and why America’s managerial culture was so excellent for so long before it lost its way, was selected by the Financial Times as one of the 10 best business books of 2007. Before he died in 2005, Peter Drucker encouraged the Hopper brothers to write their book, calling their research “tremendously interesting and impressive.”

“I can’t think of two better people to have as Writers-in-Residence than Ken and Will Hopper,” said Rick Wartzman, the Drucker Institute’s executive director. “They are exactly the kind of bold thinkers who follow in the tradition of Peter Drucker—writers who have the courage to take on the big issues and call it like it is.”

In conjunction with their appointment, the Hoppers will visit Claremont later this year and hold a series of lectures and seminars on a range of topics, including the global financial crisis and the direct (and underappreciated) role that America played in Japan’s rise to economic power.

The Hoppers will also participate in the Drucker Centennial, which marks the 100th birthday of Peter Drucker, the father of modern management; author of 39 books on organizational behavior, innovation, economy and society; and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The two-year celebration, which is being led by the Drucker Institute and the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, features conferences, lectures and other events around the world. (For more information on the Drucker Centennial, please click here.)

Others who are visiting Claremont as part of the Centennial include Warner P. Woodworth, professor of organizational leadership and strategy at Brigham Young University, who is the first Peter F. Drucker Centennial Global Entrepreneur-in-Residence; David Cooperrider, a professor at Case Western Reserve University, who is serving as a Visiting Drucker Centennial Scholar-in-Residence; and K.H. Moon, former chief executive of Yuhan-Kimberly Ltd., who will be a Drucker Centennial Fellow.

Born in Glasgow, Kenneth Hopper has been active throughout his professional life as a consultant on industrial matters in the U.S. and Europe. He is a mechanical engineer by training. As a writer he has taken a particular interest in differing national managerial cultures, which encouraged him to go to Ireland when the “Celtic Miracle” was getting underway, to Harvard Business School during America’s glorious postwar decades and to Japan when that country’s “Economic Miracle” was at its peak. He now lives in New Jersey.

Through his articles and lectures, Ken has been largely responsible for uncovering and publicizing the pioneering management activities of the Civil Communications Section of General MacArthur’s command in Tokyo after World War II and its influence in Japan and throughout Asia.

William Hopper, who was also born in Glasgow, is a modern linguist by training. He has been an investment banker for more than 40 years, beginning his career as a financial analyst at W.R. Grace & Co. in New York, then becoming personal assistant to Sigmund Warburg at S.G. Warburg in London.

As a Director of Morgan Grenfell in London, he pioneered the Dragon Bond Market in East Asia in 1976 with a fund-raising for the European Investment Bank (touted by Institutional Investor as the “Deal of the Year”) and launched the first Eurobond issue for an East European country (Hungary) in the same year. Until last year, Will was chairman of the placement agents, WJ Hopper & Co. Ltd., which helped entrepreneurs raise capital to invest in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.

In addition to their posts at the Drucker Institute, the Hoppers have been appointed Visiting Fellows at Manchester Business School. Will Hopper has also received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Private Equity from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

5/10

'Drucker Apps' 5/13/10: Push-Pull

This latest addition to Drucker Apps springs off the new law in Arizona that’s aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration.

Taking part in this running dialogue will be Tomás Jiménez, author of Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity; John Schmitt, co-author of Low Wage Work in the Wealthy World; and a young undocumented woman from Ecuador.

“To prevent immigration pressure is. . .very much like preventing the law of gravity,” Drucker wrote in his 1999 book Management Challenges for the 21st Century.

We invite you to join our Drucker Apps conversation about the issue of immigration. We open things up with this question: Should we focus on trying to prevent the undocumented from living in the U.S.? Or should we concentrate on making sure that everyone who is here, regardless of status, becomes as productive as possible? To participate, please visit: apps.druckerinstitute.com.

5/10

Dave Barry and Richard Riordan to appear at the Drucker Business Forum

Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist Dave Barry will be in conversation with former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan at the Drucker Business Forum on May 14.

The event—titled “Something lighthearted for investor morale and to get you through the jittery markets”—will be held at the Crawford Family Forum at KPCC, 474 South Raymond Ave., Pasadena, Calif. 91105. Breakfast will be served at 7:45 a.m., and the main program starts at 8:30.

Barry is the author of more than 30 books, including Dave Barry’s Money Secrets and his latest, I’ll Mature When I’m Dead. For 25 years he was a syndicated columnist whose work appeared in more than 500 newspapers worldwide. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1988.

Riordan, a philanthropist, lawyer and businessman, served as mayor of Los Angeles from 1993-2001 and California Secretary of Education from 2003-2005. He currently serves as the chairman of the Alliance for College Ready Public Schools, a charter management organization that operates 13 middle and high schools in L.A.

To RSVP, please email Ted Habte-Gabr at ted@druckerbusinessforum.org.

5/10

The Drucker Institute releases May/June 2010 newsletter

The Drucker Institute has just released the May/June 2010 issue of The Window, which features:

The universal languages of music and management
A remembrance of management scholar C. K. Prahalad
Drucker's never-before-published acknowledgements from Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices

Click here to read it.

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5/10

'Drucker Apps' 4/30/10: Off-Track Betting

This latest addition to Drucker Apps looks at the Goldman Sachs scandal not from a legal standpoint but, rather, with an eye on the firm’s responsibility to provide products of social value.

Taking part in this running dialogue will be regulatory and financial experts, as well as those who’ve been closely tracking all the drama on Wall Street, including Matthew Bishop, co-author of The Road from Ruin: How to Revive Capitalism and Put America Back on Top.

“None of our institutions exists by itself and is an end in itself,” Drucker wrote in his 1973 classic Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices. “Every one is an organ of society and exists for the sake of society. Business is no exception. Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business; it can be justified only as being good for society.”

We invite you to join our Drucker Apps conversation about Goldman’s conduct. We open things up with this question: Does business always need to serve a social purpose and, if so, did something go awry at Goldman? To participate, please visit: apps.druckerinstitute.com.

4/10

'Drucker Apps' 4/15/10: Class Conflict

This latest addition to Drucker Apps was inspired by the hottest debate in education right now: whether setting common standards for public schools is wise. Taking part in the running dialogue around this topic will be Dave Levin, co-founder of the national charter school network KIPP; former Intel CEO Craig Barrett, co-chair of Achieve, a nonprofit, bipartisan education reform organization; and others.

“The traditional concepts of literacy no longer suffice,” Drucker wrote in his 1993 book Post-Capitalist Society. “Reading, writing, arithmetic will be needed just as they are today. But literacy now has to go well beyond these foundations. It requires numeracy; it requires a basic understanding of science and of the dynamics of technology; it requires an acquaintance with foreign languages. It also requires learning how to be effective as a member of an organization, as an employee.”

We invite you to join our Drucker Apps conversation about the call for common standards in the classroom. We open things up with this question: Can common standards help elevate education in America—or will they just produce universal mediocrity?

To participate, please visit: http://apps.druckerinstitute.com.

The Drucker Institute Launches Drucker Apps 2.0

The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University today launched Drucker Apps 2.0, a new version of its social-media tool that ties the timeless wisdom of one of the great thinkers and writers of the 20th century to the hottest issues of today.

As with the original version of Drucker Apps, this new version springs off the writing of Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management. But Drucker Apps 2.0 has been designed to foster an ongoing conversation about bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership.

“Rather than just transmit information, we hope to spark a dialogue among those who understand that the way organizations are run greatly affects the health of society,” said Phalana Tiller, the Drucker Institute’s communications manager. “Our ultimate goal is to have Drucker Apps become a forum that’s so lively and inspiring, people will take the ideas generated there and act upon them. We want to drive behavior change.”

The first topic taken up by Drucker Apps 2.0 is whether setting common standards for public schools is wise. Taking part in the running dialogue around this topic—one of the hottest debates now raging in the field of education—will be Dave Levin, co-founder of the national charter school network KIPP; former Intel CEO Craig Barrett, co-chair of Achieve, a nonprofit, bipartisan education reform organization; and others.

To weigh in, please visit: apps.druckerinstitute.com.

The Drucker Institute Announces Call for Applications for $100,000 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation

The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University has announced a call for applications for the 2010 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation.

The first-place prize is $100,000, thanks to a generous grant from The Coca-Cola Foundation. The second-place award is $7,500, and the third-place prize is $5,000.

The award application is now available. The submission deadline is July 1. (If you have questions about the application or award process, please refer to our FAQ page.) All IRS-certified 501(c)3 organizations are eligible to apply.

Administered annually since 1991, the Drucker Award is granted to a social-sector organization that demonstrates Drucker’s definition of innovation—change that creates a new dimension of performance. In addition, the judges look for programs that are highly effective and that have made a difference in the lives of the people they serve.

Last year, the Drucker Award application was revamped so that, in addition to collecting information from nonprofit organizations seeking the prize, it would provide them with some of Peter Drucker’s key insights on innovation. "Our own innovation was to turn the award application into a teaching tool—and, we hope, a catalyst for action," explained Rick Wartzman, the Drucker Institute’s executive director.

Hundreds of nonprofits completed a survey about the application process, and 94% reported that it gave them a better understanding of how the particular program theyd nominated for the award was, in fact, innovative. Some 87%, meanwhile, said the application would prompt them to explore additional opportunities for innovation in their work.

The winners of this year’s competition will be invited to attend the Drucker Innovation Forum later this fall. At this intimate, invitation-only event, participants will gather for a uniquely cross-sector conversation about strategies for making innovation systematic and effective within an organization.

4/10

Bestselling author Roger Lowenstein to speak at the Drucker Business Forum

Roger Lowenstein, bestselling author and Bloomberg columnist, will discuss his latest book, The End of Wall Street, at the Drucker Business Forum on April 15.

Lowenstein, who also wrote the acclaimed book When Genius Failed, will be in conversation with Tess Vigeland, host of public radio’s Marketplace Monday. The event will be held at the Crawford Family Forum at KPCC, 474 South Raymond Ave., Pasadena, Calif. 91105. Breakfast will be served at 7:45 a.m., and the main program starts at 8:30.

To RSVP, please email Ted Habte-Gabr at ted@druckerbusinessforum.org.

4/10

The Drucker Institute to host noridan, Korean social entrepreneurs, for a workshop and parade in Claremont

The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University will host noridan, a group of South Korean social entrepreneurs who turn scrap metal and other discarded material into musical instruments, for a public workshop and parade in mid-April.

Using "We play, imagine and recycle!" as its motto, noridan is widely recognized as a leading innovator in its field. The group has performed from Hong Kong to London, and it was honored with the Drucker Society of Korea’s 2009 Social Innovation Award.

"We create a ‘second life’ for car wheels, PE pipe, and wasted bicycles by adding imagination," said Ahn Suk-hee, noridan’s CEO.

On April 13, the group will conduct a workshop at the Drucker Institute in which students from the Claremont Unified School District and other members of the public will join with some two-dozen members of noridan to make instruments. The workshop is set to begin at 3:30PM. Space is limited, and you must reserve a spot in advance. If you’re interested in participating, please contact Julia Baumgaertner of the Drucker Institute at julia.baumgaertner@cgu.edu or at 909-816-2947.

On April 14, noridan will lead an "eco-parade" along a one-mile route through Claremont. The parade is set to begin at 10AM at the corner of College Avenue and Eleventh Street (recently renamed Drucker Way). It will end at Shelton Park (Harvard Avenue and Bonita Avenue). Members of the public are invited to join the parade and to march along with noridan.

In addition to the workshop and parade, noridan representatives will hold a forum on social entrepreneurship with students from the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management.

"Peter Drucker proclaimed that social entrepreneurs are those who are able to improve ‘the performance capacity of society,’" said Rick Wartzman, executive director of the Drucker Institute, a campus-wide resource of CGU. "There is much to learn from noridan about the practice of social entrepreneurship, leadership, sustainability and the power of music in helping forge the bonds of community."

The visit by noridan has been officially designated as a part of the Drucker Centennial, which marks the 100th birthday of Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management; author of 39 books on organizational behavior, innovation, economy, and society; and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The two-year celebration, which features conferences, lectures and other events around the world, is being led by the Drucker-Ito School and the Drucker Institute. (For more information on the Drucker Centennial, please visit www.drucker100.com.)

Polham, a major South Korean clothing company, is generously supporting noridan’s activities in Southern California as part of Polham’s "Happy Promise" campaign. The campaign aims to promote a green and healthy earth, in part by urging people to recall the happiness that they have been able to enjoy thanks to a clean environment.

About noridan

Founded in Seoul in 2004, noridan has gained a reputation for innovation and creativity not only by turning unwanted industrial material into cultural products, but also through the stories of its performers, who see no boundaries between work and play.

Some 60 members of all ages—producers, performers, media artists and designers—work together to solve social issues as they draw on their diverse experiences.

Each year, noridan performs more than 200 times and puts on about 1,000 workshops in which its members show the public how to make instruments from scrap. By doing so, they teach lessons about sustainability while also helping build the imagination. During noridan’s programs, roles reverse (between students and teachers, as well as parents and children), and the drama of sound is captured as noridan demonstrates how nearly everything can be turned into an instrument. In this way, noridan is a performance troupe, factory and school all rolled into one.

In addition to reusing unwanted materials, noridan also breathes new life into wasted spaces by creating eco-friendly playgrounds throughout South Korea. Noridan is currently working to build a studio and "cultural hub" under a bridge of the Seoul transit system.

For more, please visit www.noridan.org.

4/10

The Drucker Institute releases Mar/Apr 2010 newsletter

The March/April 2010 issue of The Window, the Drucker Institute’s newsletter, covers:

A new mission to “better society”
What it takes to join a Drucker Society
The greatest turnaround in baseball history

Click here to read it.

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3/10

Drucker Institute named one of the top ‘influencers’ in the HR world

Focus.com has named the Drucker Institute as one of the human-resource community’s top “influencers,” putting it alongside such notable names as Marcus Buckingham and Daniel Pink.

Focus.com, a leading online resource to help business and IT professionals make purchase and other types of decisions, cited the Drucker Institute as one of 25 experts, blogs and influencers “that got the HR world talking last year.”

It noted, in particular, how “Peter Drucker’s legacy is kept alive by this campus-wide resource of Claremont Graduate University. The think tank works to apply Drucker’s ideas to contemporary management issues.”

“We’re honored to have been selected by Focus.com,” said Jamie Jones, the Drucker Institute’s strategic marketing manager. “But we’re also intent on our influence growing substantially in the coming year.

“In the next couple of months,” Jones continued, “we’ll be releasing an updated version of our social media tool—dubbed Drucker Apps 2.0—that will contain new interactive features. In this way, we hope to more deeply engage an ever-larger audience that is interested in bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership. With Peter Drucker’s timeless teachings as a foundation, we want to help spur more people to turn ideas into action.”

To read the full list of the “25 Best HR Experts, Blogs and Influencers to Track in 2010,” click here.

2/10

The Drucker Institute to take part in cultural exchange with Vietnam (updated)

The Drucker Institute will take part in Ascending Dragon, a historic cultural exchange between the United States and Vietnam, by helping to bring management and leadership training to a group of Vietnamese arts administrators and musicians.

This aspect of the cultural exchange—the largest ever between the two countries—is being made possible through Southwest Chamber Music, a Grammy Award-winning ensemble based in Pasadena, Calif., which has won a U.S. State Department grant to support the project.

Ascending Dragon, which is set to take place from Feb. 27 through May 3, will feature four world-premier concerts in Vietnam and 17 U.S. premiers.

"I know that together with our musical friends in Vietnam we will all point the way to a better world, where people make music together to understand each other," said Jeff von der Schmidt, Southwest Chamber Music’s artistic director. "Maybe, just maybe, some people will hear what we are saying about reconciliation in this still frightening world. We’ll be a living example of how countries move forward to create a better future out of a complicated past."

In addition to fostering the creation of wonderful music, one of the State Department’s goals in supporting Southwest Chamber Music was to identify and encourage a new generation of emerging cultural leaders in Vietnam. As part of this, the Drucker Institute will help lead a series of training workshops for the Vietnamese.

Rick Wartzman, the Drucker Institute’s executive director, will travel to Hanoi in March to introduce the Vietnamese to the work of Peter Drucker. The following month, the Vietnamese will travel to Claremont Graduate University to take part in a workshop being put on at the Drucker Institute, in conjunction with the Getty Leadership Institute and CGU’s Arts Management program.

On April 30, the Drucker Institute will participate at the Colburn School in downtown Los Angeles with Southwest Chamber Music and the Riordan Volunteer Leadership Development Program in another workshop for the Vietnamese delegation. That session will be followed by a concert featuring works by Maurice Ravel, Ph?m Minh Thành, Alexandra du Bois and Kurt Rohde.

The April 30 event has been designated an official part of the Drucker Centennial, a two-year celebration marking Peter Drucker’s 100^th birthday.

"We are deeply honored that our friends at Southwest Chamber Music have turned to the work of Peter Drucker and the Drucker Institute to play a role in Ascending Dragon," Wartzman said. "Peter, who considered management a liberal art, was greatly influenced by the work of composers and musicians, and his writing is filled with references to Mahler, Mozart and others. This is not only an exciting opportunity for us. It’s also a beautiful fit."

The project title, Ascending Dragon, is a translation of the Vietnamese words Thang Long: the first name of Hanoi, which is celebrating its 1,000th anniversary in 2010. For more information on Ascending Dragon, please click here.

2/10

CEOs put Drucker to work

Read how some of America's leading executives are putting Drucker to work in this snapshot from the 2009 Drucker CEO Forum.

03/10

Drucker Centennial calendar is updated with 2010 events

The Drucker Institute and the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management have updated their Drucker Centennial events calendar for 2010.

The Centennial is a two-year commemoration of the life of the late Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management; author of 39 books on organizational behavior, innovation, economy and society; and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Drucker, who died in 2005, would have turned 100 on Nov. 19, 2009.

Last year’s Drucker Centennial celebration was crowned by a weeklong series of activities in Southern California. Featured speakers included leading management thinkers Warren Bennis, Ken Blanchard, Jim Collins, Frances Hesselbein, Stephen Covey and Charles Handy.

This year will see a new slate of Centennial events, beginning with a Feb. 3 conversation in Los Angeles between Ira Jackson, dean of the Drucker School, and Meg Whitman, California gubernatorial candidate and former CEO of eBay.

To check out the 2010 Drucker Centennial calendar, click here. New activities and new details will be added as the year goes on.

2/10

Financial services giant Edward Jones elects Peter Drucker into its Hall of Fame

Edward Jones, the St. Louis-based financial-services giant, has elected Peter Drucker into its corporate Hall of Fame.

“The Edward Jones Hall of Fame celebrates the contributions of individuals who have helped sculpt our firm and who have been most responsible for our success,” the company noted. “These primarily include our financial advisors, branch office administrators and home-office associates—but also those rare individuals outside our firm who have had an enormous impact upon us.

“Recipients embody our values, our culture and our spirit of caring by routinely making a difference in the lives of others. In a way, these are individuals whose fingerprints can be found all over our firm because they have fundamentally helped to shape it.”
Drucker’s Hall of Fame plaque, made by the renowned sculptor Harry Weber, reads: “An authority on management, Peter advised Edward Jones for over two decades. He encouraged us to define our clients by mindset, not by geography, which led to the firm’s metropolitan expansion. Peter often referred to himself as in intermittent member of Edward Jones’ senior management.”

Among the six other Edward Jones Hall of Fame inductees this year is John Bachmann, the firm’s former managing partner and a member of the Drucker Institute’s board of advisors. Last November, Claremont Graduate University honored Bachmann, who is also a trustee of CGU and chairman of the Board of Visitors at CGU’s Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, with a Drucker Centennial Leadership Award.

Fortune magazine recently ranked Edward Jones No. 2 on its “100 Best Companies to Work For” list. The firm, which serves about 7 million clients through more than 12,500 branch offices, ranked No. 1 among large-sized companies.

1/10

Davos speaker calls for "Drucker principle" pay limits

There's long been the Peter Principle. Now there's the Drucker Principle.

The Telegraph (U.K.) reported on a major labor union's demand that the "Drucker principle"—limiting top executive compensation to no more than 20 times that of the lowest-paid employee—be adopted as part of the G20 agenda.

Speaking at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, the general secretary of the 20-million-member UNI Global Union called present levels of executive pay "obscene" and insisted there needed to be major adjustments.

To learn more about the "Drucker principle," read this 2008 BusinessWeek online column by Drucker Institute Executive Director Rick Wartzman.

1/10

Drucker Centennial Week videos now available

The first videos from Drucker Centennial Week are now available on the Drucker Institute's YouTube channel.

Hear Frances Hesselbein—former CEO of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. and the person who Peter Drucker said “could manage any company in America”—on “The crucible generation: Hope of the future.” Watch Ken Blanchard—author of more than 30 books on management and regarded by many as one of the most influential leadership experts in the world—speak on “Leading at a higher level.” And listen to Pastor Rick Warren discuss Drucker's insights about leadership and personal integrity.

More video and audio from Drucker Centennial Week will be available on our YouTube channel in the coming weeks.

1/10

Coming soon: Drucker Apps 2.0

Drucker Apps—a downloadable collection of useful insights on work and life from the world's foremost expert on organizations and effectiveness, Peter F. Drucker—is taking a break. But it won't be a long one.

Coming soon will be Drucker Apps 2.0.

1/10

Presentations now available from the Vienna Drucker Forum

The Drucker Society of Austria has made available videos, abstracts, speakers’ presentations and photographs from the Drucker Forum that it hosted in Vienna last November on Peter Drucker’s 100^th birthday.

The gathering featured lectures and remarks from a number of major management scholars, including C.K. Prahalad, Charles Handy, Philip Kotler, Fredmund Malik, Hermann Simon and many more.

Also participating were Ira Jackson, dean of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management; Rick Wartzman, executive director of the Drucker Institute; and Joe Maciariello, the Institute’s academic and research director.

To see the material from the Forum, please click here.

The Drucker Society of Austria is part of a global volunteer network dedicated to applying Peter Drucker’s teachings on effective management, ethical leadership and social responsibility. To learn more about what dozens of Drucker Societies across the world are doing in their local communities, click here.

1/10

The Drucker Institute releases Jan/Feb 2010 newsletter

The January/February 2010 issue of The Window, the Drucker Institute's newsletter, covers:

Drucker-inspired resolutions for the New Year
An update on Drucker in Japan
The value of volunteering

Click here to read it.

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1/10

'Drucker Apps' 12/18/09: Management Insights on the Environment

This installment of Drucker Apps was inspired by the world climate talks in Copenhagen. As Drucker wrote in 1989: "Concern for the ecology, the endangered habitat of the human race, will increasingly have to be built into economic policy. And increasingly concern for the ecology, and policies in respect of it, will transcend national boundaries."

This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

At what cost?
Think globally, act locally
Incentivizing change
Measure for measure

To read the full Drucker Apps, click here.

Drucker Apps is distributed twice a month and available via download from our website or via our RSS feed.

'Drucker Apps' 12/4/09: Management Insights on Strategic Alliances

This installment of Drucker Apps was inspired by reports that News Corp. and Microsoft have been exploring a possible business alliance. Although the prospects of such a deal seem to have faded, the talk underscores the growing importance of business partnerships—arrangements that can prove very tricky for managers to execute successfully. As Drucker noted, “Today businesses grow through alliances, all kinds of dangerous liaisons and joint ventures, which, by the way, very few people understand.”

This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

Dangerous liaisons
Manging out, not down
The power of partnership
The pitfalls of success

To read the full Drucker Apps, click here.

Drucker Apps is distributed twice a month and available via download from our website or via our RSS feed.

Major media mark the Drucker Centennial

A number of major publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Financial Times, and Inc. magazine, have marked the Drucker Centennial, the global celebration of Peter Drucker’s 100th birthday.

In its article, The Wall Street Journal hailed Drucker as "the most influential management thinker of the past century."

The Economist, for its part, declared that Drucker’s "writing remains startlingly relevant." It also noted that two institutions "are dedicated to keeping the flame alive: the Peter Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and the Drucker Institute." The Institute, it added, "acts as the hub of a global network of Drucker Societies that are trying to apply his principles."

The Financial Times covered the Drucker Global Forum in Vienna, Austria. Its piece featured the comments of two leading management thinkers—C.K. Prahalad and Charles Handy. Prahalad, the paper reported, "said that, in his opinion, no other person has had the impact on the practice of management that Drucker has," while "Handy observed that, even when he felt he had provided some new insight into the challenge of management, he would invariably discover that Drucker had already written at some length along similar lines, often dozens of years earlier."

Inc. magazine had some fun with its readers, providing them with an alphabetical listing (from A to Z) of people, places and concepts drawn from Drucker’s life and works. Inc. also cited authors Ken Blanchard and Jim Collins, who spoke earlier this month at Drucker Centennial Week events in Claremont and Los Angeles. About 1,000 people attended various activities during the week, and another 8,000 watched some of the speeches and lectures via the Internet.

The Los Angeles Times, meanwhile, also weighed in, with a review of the Japanese art exhibition that kicked off Drucker Centennial Week. And earlier, Harvard Business Review also highlighted the Drucker Centennial.

11/09

'Drucker Apps' 11/19/09: Peter Drucker's Most Important Contributions

This installment of Drucker Apps was inspired by Peter Drucker’s 100th birthday, Nov. 19. Many credit Drucker with being the father of modern management, and as he once noted about his contribution to the world: “I… realized that management has become the constitutive organ and function of the Society of Organizations.”

This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

It's society, stupid
Beyond the boundaries of business
Drucker's discipline
Above all, do no harm

To read the full Drucker Apps, click here.

Drucker Apps is distributed twice a month and available via download from our website or via our RSS feed.

Drucker Centennial Leadership Awards Given to John Bachmann, Bob Buford and Masatoshi Ito

The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University have presented Drucker Centennial Leadership Awards to three outstanding individuals: John Bachmann, Bob Buford and Masatoshi Ito.

All three were recognized at a gala dinner earlier this month in Claremont, where their accomplishments in support of education, business and civil society were highlighted. The event was part of the Drucker Centennial, a global celebration marking the 100^th birthday of the late Peter F. Drucker, widely known as the father of modern management; author of 39 books; and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Each award winner was given a bust of Peter Drucker, designed by Claremont artist Opoku Acheampong, with a personal inscription.

Bachmann serves as chairman of the Drucker-Ito School Board of Visitors and is also a member of the Drucker Institute Board of Advisors and a CGU Trustee. He is a senior partner at the St. Louis-based investment firm Edward Jones. During Bachmann’s 24-year stint as managing partner, Edward Jones grew from 200 offices in 28 states to more than 9,000 offices throughout the U.S., as well as in Canada and the United Kingdom. Bachmann has been involved with a broad range of professional and philanthropic undertakings, including serving as chairman of the Securities Industry Association, chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, campaign chairman of the United Way of Greater St. Louis and chairman of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.

Bachmann’s award, presented to him by CGU President Joe Hough, said: "For so effectively putting Peter’s principles into practice. . .For building a great company with great values. . .For two decades of service and stewardship at CGU and Drucker."

Buford is the chairman of the Drucker Institute Board of Advisors. He is the author of four books, including the best seller Halftime: Changing Your Game Plan from Success to Significance; Game Plan: Winning Strategies for the Second Half of Your Life; Stuck in Halftime: Reinvesting Your One and Only Life; and Finishing Well. In 1984, he started Leadership Network, which identifies and provides resources for senior ministers and staff of large church congregations (1,000-plus in attendance). In January 1998, Buford launched what became Halftime, an organization that helps individuals find more meaning and significance in the second half of their lives. In 1999, Buford concluded a 35-year career in the communications business by selling Buford Television Inc., where he had been chairman.

Drucker Institute Executive Director Rick Wartzman presented Buford with his award. It read: "For releasing and directing energy. . .For building on islands of health and strength. . .For insisting that we think big or go home."

Ito has been the Drucker-Ito School’s most significant supporter, with an initial $3 million gift to help build the School’s current home and a subsequent $20 million donation to assist the School with its strategic plans for the future. He is the founder and honorary chairman of the Ito-Yokado Group, the second-largest retailing organization in the world. Ito built the company from a small apparel store in Tokyo into a corporation with annual revenue of about $30 billion and a workforce of more than 125,000. The Ito-Yokado Group includes more than 10,000 7-Eleven stores in Japan and 5,800 in North America, along with 1,000 other stores—specialty shops, department stores, restaurants, supermarkets and superstores. Peter Drucker hailed Ito as "one of the world’s outstanding entrepreneurs and business builders."

Ira Jackson, dean of the Drucker-Ito School, presented Ito with his award. It read:

"For your 30-year friendship with Peter Drucker. . .For building a global company in a Drucker-like way. . .For combining Peter’s thoughts with your actions and for enabling us to name our school for both a great thinker and an accomplished doer."

Live webcast of the Nov. 19 Drucker Global Forum in Vienna

The Drucker Society of Austria has opened the live webcast (below) for the opening session of its Nov. 19-20 Drucker Global Forum in Vienna, “Reaching Out, Coming Home.” The video feed will run from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CET, with retransmission for U.S. viewers from 8:00 AM to 12:00 noon Pacific Time (11:00 AM to 3 PM Eastern).

The webcast will feature:

Doris Drucker
Pastor Rick Warren, founder of Saddleback Church
Prof. C.K. Prahalad, professor of strategy, University of Michigan Ross School of Business
Prof. Charles Handy, social philosopher
Prof. Fredmund Malik, owner and chairman of Malik Management Center St. Gallen
Adrian Wooldridge, managing editor of The Economist

Also slated to speak in Vienna are Drucker Institute executive director Rick Wartzman and Institute board member Ira Jackson, the dean of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management. (To view the full two-day program, please click here.)

The Vienna forum is part of the Drucker Centennial, a series of activities around the world marking Peter Drucker’s 100th birthday. For more on the Centennial, including a calendar of events, please click here.

11/09

“Drucker Now” iPhone App is Released

The Drucker Institute and the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University have announced the release of "Drucker Now," a new iPhone App available for free download from the iTunes store.

Drucker Apps, a twice-monthly release of useable insights on work and life that ties Peter Drucker’s writings to the hottest issues of today, all supplemented with original video and audio interviews
The Drucker School of Management’s iTunes U channel, which offers cutting-edge lectures by school faculty along with gems from the Drucker Archives
The Drucker Institute’s Twitter feed, which features regular entries from The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done
Videos from the Drucker Institute’s YouTube channel, showcasing original footage of Barack Obama, David Gergen, Wendy Kopp, Meg Whitman and many more
"The Drucker Difference" column in BusinessWeek online, written by Drucker Institute Executive Director Rick Wartzman
The latest news and updates from the Drucker Centennial, which is marking Peter Drucker’s 100th birthday with major events around the world through fall 2010

"‘Drucker Now’ is a great way for anyone who is interested in effective management and social responsibility to get a little Drucker every single day," said Zach First, managing director of the Drucker Institute.

Kiran Modak, founder of Apptango and a graduate of the Drucker School, described the product as "a perfect marriage of Drucker’s timeless wisdom with the latest in mobile technology."

To download "Drucker Now," click here.

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11/09

'Drucker Apps' 11/6/09: Management Insights on the Customer

This installment of Drucker Apps was inspired by Ford Motor Co.’s recent report of $1 billion in third-quarter profit—and the realization that, for the company’s turnaround to continue, it must prove over the long term that it can provide customers with products that they genuinely value. As Drucker noted, “There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.”This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

The purpose-driven business
The value proposition
The marketer's blind spot
Why your sweat doesn't always equal their satisfaction

To read the full Drucker Apps, click here.

Drucker Apps is distributed twice a month and available via download from our website or via our RSS feed.

The Drucker School and Drucker Institute Announce Drucker Centennial Week Celebration

Leading management thinkers Ken Blanchard, Warren Bennis, Charles Handy, Stephen Covey, Jim Collins and Frances Hesselbein will headline Claremont Graduate University’s Drucker Centennial Week, Nov. 2-8, commemorating what would have been Peter F. Drucker’s 100th birthday.

The weeklong series of events, being put on by the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and the Drucker Institute, crowns the Drucker Centennial. This global celebration honors the life of the late Peter Drucker, author of 39 books, winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the man widely known as “the father of modern management.” Drucker’s timeless insights into leadership, innovation, organizational effectiveness, economy and society continue to shape today’s fast-changing world.

In addition to the remarkable group of speakers coming to Claremont and Los Angeles, Drucker Centennial Week will include the opening of a Japanese art exhibit and a book-signing party marking the recent publication by McGraw-Hill of The Drucker Difference, written by Drucker School faculty.

The week will be capped by two events: Drucker Centennial Day, which brings together Drucker School alumni and others interested in hearing engaging lectures, networking and enjoying great food, and a community brunch hosted by Doris Drucker, author, entrepreneur and Peter Drucker’s wife of more than 70 years.

Most of the events are free and open to the public. For more details on Drucker Centennial Week and registration information, please visit www.drucker100week.com. You can also email drucker100@cgu.edu or call (909) 607-6007.

11/09

The Drucker Institute releases Nov/Dec 2009 newsletter

The November/December 2009 issue of The Window, the Drucker Institute's newsletter, covers the recent Drucker Centennial CEO Forum hosted by Procter & Gamble's A.G. Lafley, the inspiring new Drucker Society of the Drucker School, and Drucker's legacy in an often overlooked area: small business.

Click here to view it.

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10/09

Harvard Business Review celebrates Drucker Centennial

Harvard Business Review has tied its November 2009 edition to the Drucker Centennial, proclaiming on its front cover: "What Would Peter Do? . . . How his wisdom can help you navigate turbulent times."

"If ever HBR had an iconic contributor, it was the late, great Peter Drucker," the magazine's Adi Ignatius says in his editor's note. "Drucker had an extraordinary grasp of the big picture and a clear understanding of the challenges executives actually face. We still strive to present what he so effortlessly provided: a point of view that's 100% pragmatic but imbued with a deep sense of moral responsibility."

The magazine features pieces by, among others, Harvard's Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Procter & Gamble Chairman A.G. Lafley and the Leader to Leader Institute's Frances Hesselbein, all of whom are co-chairs of the Drucker Centennial Committee. Other contributors include Alan Kantrow, Oscar Motomura, Peter Paschek and Zhang Ruimin.

To see the magazine, click here. To learn more about the Drucker Centennial, click here.

10/09

The 2009 World Business Forum and ExpoManagement in Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Milan join the Drucker Centennial

The Drucker Institute and HSM have announced that the 2009 World Business Forums in Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Milan will be official Drucker Centennial events.

The World Business Forum is the leading international symposium for the business community, and will take place for first time in Buenos Aires on October 26 and 27, 2009. This forum will be attended by more than 2,000 top executives from across the South American region, bringing top business, political and academic figures together to discuss the most critical issues of the day.

The World Business Forum in Milan, Italy will follow on October 28 and 29. ExpoManagement in Mexico City on November 12 and in Sao Paulo on November 30 - December 2 will round out the 2009 slate of HSM-Drucker Centennial events.

The Drucker Centennial marks the 100th birthday of Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management; author of 39 books on organizational behavior, innovation, economy, and society; and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. This commemoration and celebration will be crowned by a week of special events at Claremont Graduate University in November 2009 and supplemented by other activities from Fall 2008-2010.

“We’re honored to work with an organization as prestigious as HSM,” said Drucker Institute Executive Director Rick Wartzman. “The fact that the premiere business events in the world are partnering with us in this way is testament to the fact that Peter Drucker’s timeless insights into effective management and social responsibility are needed today more than ever.”

“During the next 12 months, HSM will join the world in celebrating what would have been Peter Drucker’s 100th birthday,” added Diego Forte, CEO of HSM Argentina. “HSM is extremely proud that the World Business Forum has been chosen to be one of the select few events to be part of the Drucker Centennial celebration. Consistent with Peter Drucker, HSM believes that knowledge is the critical driver of change and growth, and it is an honor to be associated with such an iconic visionary.”

Marcos L. de Almeida Braga, the CEO of HSM Brazil, noted that “the Drucker Centennial is not only about remembering the master who anticipated the transition to a knowledge economy, but also exploring the best paths to cope with this change, namely, managerial effectiveness, ethical leadership and social responsibility.”

10/09

'Drucker Apps' 10/23/09: Management Insights on Protectionism

This installment of Drucker Apps was inspired by growing trade tensions between the U.S. and China—a development that Drucker undoubtedly would have eyed with tremendous wariness. As he has written: “Clearly, protectionism that shuts off one’s economy is the wrong answer. It can only make one’s own industry less competitive.” This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

The walls of the world
Bloc-ing and tackling
The sin of subsidies
How investment trumps trade

To read the full Drucker Apps, click here.

Drucker Apps is distributed twice a month and available via download from our website or via our RSS feed.

Winners Chosen for the 2009 Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation

The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University has announced the winners of the 2009 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation.

The Center for Court Innovation, a New York-based nonprofit think tank that helps courts and criminal justice agencies aid victims, reduce crime and improve public trust in the justice system, is the recipient of the $100,000 first-place prize—an award made possible in large part through the generosity of The Coca-Cola Foundation.

Founded as a public-private partnership between the New York State Unified Court System and the Fund for the City of New York, the Center serves as the court’s independent research and development arm, creating demonstration projects that test new ideas. The Center’s projects include community courts, drug courts, reentry courts, domestic violence courts and mental-health courts.

This year’s second-place winner (to receive $7,500) is Urban Farming, a Detroit-based organization that plants gardens on unused land and in other spaces (such as rooftops and "edible walls" on building exteriors) to grow produce for people in the inner-city who are food insecure. The organization’s fenceless gardens allow people to pick food for free at any time, day or night, without compromising their dignity. The third-place winner (to receive $5,000) is the Population Media Center in Shelburne, Vt. It uses serialized melodramas (such as prime-time soap operas), written and produced in the local languages of participating countries, to impart lessons about family planning, avoidance of AIDS, the elevation of the status of women and the prevention of child exploitation.

The Drucker Institute will honor the first-place winner and two runners-up at a gala dinner in Los Angeles on Dec. 10. The keynote speaker at the event will be David Paine, an expert on how social media is transforming the face of volunteering in America and the president and co-founder of MyGoodDeed, the nonprofit that helped establish Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service and Remembrance. This year’s award dinner is part of the Drucker Centennial, a global celebration marking the 100th birthday of Peter Drucker.

At the heart of the Center for Court Innovation’s work is a philosophy that, rather than simply processing cases like widgets in a factory, the justice system should focus on achieving better outcomes for victims, defendants and communities. By pioneering the concept of "problem-solving justice," the Center has helped shift how judicial performance is measured. Rather than simply counting how many cases can be processed in a set period of time, the Center asks courts to define their measurement of success differently, by asking questions such as: What impact does case processing have on crime? Do defendants comply with court orders? Is it possible to improve perceptions of fairness?

"What the Center is doing is a great example of the way Peter Drucker defined innovation: change that creates a new dimension of performance," said Rick Wartzman, executive director of the Drucker Institute. "Through its work, the Center has literally changed the way that the major players in the system—judges, attorneys, criminal justice officials—think about their jobs and the impact they’re having. Through its community-court model, the Center has been able to take low-level offenders and give them a chance to repair the harm they’ve done and be reintegrated into the fabric of their neighborhoods. Victims, meanwhile, are given a greater voice in the process and have enjoyed enhanced safety.

"It is also fitting that the Center is a public-private partnership," Wartzman added. "Drucker believed strongly that for society to be healthy, each sector has a vital role to play."

The judges for the Drucker Award—Wartzman; Karen Baker, California’s Secretary of Service and Volunteering; Allison Graff-Weisner, executive director of City Year Los Angeles; Ira Jackson, dean of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management; Geneva Johnson, secretary of the Leader to Leader Institute’s Board of Governors; and C. William Pollard, chairman emeritus of ServiceMaster Co.—were particularly impressed with the results that the Center has achieved. For instance, in southwest Brooklyn, major crime has declined by 50% since the opening of the organization’s Red Hook Community Justice Center. At the same time, some 78% of local residents now approve of the courts, up from just 12% before Red Hook was launched.

Greg Berman, director of the Center, noted that he and his colleagues are thrilled to win the Drucker Award. "There is no higher honor in our book," Berman said. "We’re enormously proud to be associated with the past winners of this prize and with the spirit of Peter Drucker. Like Drucker, we believe in the transformative potential of the social sector. We have worked enormously hard over the past 15 years to reform the justice system, both here in New York and around the world. The Drucker Award will give us a booster shot of momentum as we continue to advance our vision of a more effective and humane justice system."

The Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation has been given annually since 1991 to recognize existing programs that have made a real difference in the lives of the people they serve. Cash prizes are designed to celebrate, inspire and further the work of innovative social-sector organizations based in the United States. Thanks to funding from The Coca-Cola Foundation, the first-place award will be increased to $100,000 through at least 2015, up from the $35,000 prize of previous years.

10/09

Drucker Unpacked, a New Management Training System From the Most Trusted Name in the Field, is Released

The Drucker Institute, WildWorks Group and The Center for Great Management have released Drucker Unpacked, a new management training system from the most trusted name in the field.

Using Drucker Unpacked’s two-phased approach, organizations can build their manager’s core capabilities, as well as give them the means to take on some of today’s toughest business challenges. Both phases—which are mutually reinforcing—are delivered through engaging, self-facilitated one- to three-hour sessions that are unlike traditional training programs.

With Drucker Unpacked’s proprietary process and materials, participants actually drive the learning themselves, sharing their personal experiences and creating their own “aha’s.”

The upshot: Drucker Unpacked not only gives managers and their teams the opportunity to master Peter Drucker’s core principles, it also provides the tools to turn them into action.

To order Drucker Unpacked “Business in Action” kits—which allow managers to work with their teams to tackle specific business issues, including innovation and better understanding the customer—please visit www.DruckerUnpacked.com. Each kit, which includes everything you need to conduct a Drucker Unpacked session for up to 15 people, costs $399.

To learn more about “The Drucker Management Path”—a fully integrated, 15-part curriculum that teaches managers how to be more effective and how to lead, all for just $1,500 per manager—contact Ryan Forsthoff at ryan@greatmanager.com.

ABOUT PETER DRUCKER
Born in Vienna on November 19, 1909, Peter Drucker had a profound impact on how people around the world organize themselves in the realms of business, government and civil society.

Drucker`s 39 books, along with his countless scholarly and popular articles, predicted many of the major developments of the late 20th century, including privatization and decentralization; the rise of Japan to economic world power; the decisive importance of marketing and innovation; and the emergence of the information society with its necessity of lifelong learning. In 1959, Drucker coined the term “knowledge worker,” and he spent the rest of his life examining an age in which an unprecedented number of people use their brains more than their backs.

Drucker`s first major work, The End of Economic Man, was published in 1939. Driven by an insatiable curiosity about the world around him—and a deep desire to make that world a better place—Drucker continued to write long after most others would have put away their pens. The result was a ceaseless procession of landmarks and classics: Concept of the Corporation in 1946, The Practice of Management in 1954, The Effective Executive in 1967, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices in 1973, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in 1985, Post-Capitalist Society in 1993, Management Challenges for the 21st Century in 1999.

Drucker, who had taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Bennington College, and New York University, spent the last 30-plus years of his career on the faculty at Claremont Graduate University. In 2001, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation`s highest civilian honor. He died in November 2005, just shy of his 96th birthday.

ABOUT THE DRUCKER INSTITUTE
The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University is a think tank and action tank whose purpose is to stimulate effective management and ethical leadership across all sectors of society. It does this, in large part, by advancing the ideas and ideals of Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management.

The Institute acts as a hub for a worldwide network of Drucker Societies: volunteer-driven organizations that are using Drucker’s teachings to bring about positive change in their local communities.

In addition, the Institute maintains a digital archive of Drucker’s papers; undertakes research that builds on Drucker’s writings; offers an annual $100,000 prize for nonprofit innovation; produces curricular material that distills Drucker’s decades of leading-edge thinking, including through an engaging, do-it-yourself workshop-in-a-box called “Drucker Unpacked”; applies Drucker’s work to current events (through a regular online column in BusinessWeek by Institute Executive Director Rick Wartzman and through a social media tool called Drucker Apps); and hosts visiting fellows with Drucker-like insights and values.

The Institute is a close affiliate of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito
Graduate School of Management, which is training the next generation of leaders and managers to do good while they do well.

ABOUT THE WILDWORKS GROUP
WildWorks, based in Dallas, has worked with a range of Fortune 500 companies and leading social-sector organizations. It provides products and services that help create “results-based conversations.”

The firm’s custom collaborative sessions enable clients to tackle complex issues, identify mission-critical opportunities and rapidly build organizational alignment and action.

Wildworks’s “tool kit approach” provides organizations with the training and methods necessary to conduct their own collaborative meetings. This allows any group to unleash the same collaborative power experienced in the custom sessions.

ABOUT THE CENTER FOR GREAT MANAGEMENT
The aim of The Center for Great Management is to transform merely good managers into great ones by connecting them with leading thinkers and experts, cutting-edge research findings and powerful tools of the trade.

Through customized educational services and products—virtual seminars, white papers, research, and training—CGM helps managers to sharpen their leadership talents, see the future before rivals do, solve their thorniest problems and discover which management techniques work—and which don’t.

CGM serves managers in a diverse array of sectors—including corporate, government, and not-for-profit. It educates novice managers as well as seasoned leaders transitioning into new roles. And it develops managers from every organizational function, whether it’s human resources, IT, marketing, customer service, finance or sales.

CGM clients include Pfizer, Xerox, Kraft, Macy’s and Apple.

Harvard Business Review trumpets Drucker Institute event

Harvard Business Review has taken note of a forum, convened by the Drucker Institute, in which a group of corporate executives and other leaders discussed "their renewed sense of purpose and responsibility to a local and global community."

The intimate event, hosted on Oct. 14 by Procter & Gamble Chairman A.G. Lafley, included 32 participants from business, academia and the social sector. Among them were:

Intuit founder Scott Cook
Teach for America founder and CEO Wendy Kopp
Costco CEO Jim Sinegal
former News Corp. President Peter Chernin
Mattel Chairman and CEO Bob Eckert
Feeding America CEO Vicki Escarra
Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
USC professor Warren Bennis
Stanford Business School professor Jeffrey Pfeffer
Rotman School of Management Dean Roger Martin

Also participating were Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management Dean Ira Jackson, Drucker Institute Executive Director Rick Wartzman, and Drucker School Professors Jean Lipman-Blumen and Vijay Sathe.

The group discussed themes drawn from Lafley's May 2009 HBR article, "What Only the CEO Can Do." The piece itself grew out of conversations that Lafley had with Peter Drucker.

The Forum was part of the Drucker Centennial, a series of events being put on by the Drucker Institute and Drucker School in celebration of Peter Drucker's 100th birthday.

Click here to read the item in HBR.

10/09

'Drucker Apps' 10/9/09: Management Insights on Capitalism

This installment of Drucker Apps was inspired by Michael Moore's new film "Capitalism: A Love Story." Drucker had his own, more nuanced view of the issues, once saying, "I am for the free market. Even though it doesn't work too well, nothing else works at all. But I have serious reservations about capitalism as a system because it idolizes economics as the be-all and end-all of life. It is one-dimensional."

This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

Beyond Economic Man
The roots of resentment
Dollars and sense
Mind over money

To read the full Drucker Apps, click here.

Drucker Apps is distributed twice a month and available via download from our website or via our RSS feed.

Eleventh Street in Claremont, Calif., will be renamed “Drucker Way” – celebrating, renewing and honoring the life, work and legacy of Peter Drucker

The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and the Drucker Institute announced today that one block of Eleventh Street in Claremont, California, will officially be renamed “Drucker Way” in honor of Peter Drucker, the father of modern management.

The renaming of Eleventh Street is part of the Drucker Centennial, which marks Drucker’s 100^th birthday. The global celebration, which is being put on by the Drucker School and the Drucker Institute, will be crowned by a week of special events at Claremont Graduate University in November 2009.

“The naming of Drucker Way is a fitting tribute to a great thinker who spent so much productive time here in Claremont amid this remarkable complex of Oxford-like colleges,” said Ira A. Jackson, Dean of the Drucker School. “During his 30 years on the faculty at Claremont Graduate University, Peter walked these streets and ruminated on the meaning of work and society. We are grateful to the mayor and City Council for honoring one of Claremont’s own in this way and allowing us to change our address during the Drucker Centennial to 100 Drucker Way.”

The dedication will take place on Thursday, October 8, and will be preceded by a State of the School address, led by Dean Jackson. The newly named “Drucker Way” extends one block from College Avenue to Dartmouth Avenue. A reception will follow in the Burkle Courtyard and is open to the public.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

State of the School Address, Burkle 16

4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.

Drucker Way Unveiling, the corner of Eleventh and Dartmouth avenues

5:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Reception, Burkle Courtyard

5:45 p.m. to 7:15 p.m.

For more information, please contact Christina Wassenaar at Christina.wassenaar@cgu.edu.

10/09

McGraw-Hill and The Drucker School announce the release of "The Drucker Difference" book

Today's foremost authorities from the Drucker School re-interpret Drucker's principles to provide strategies business leaders can use to address their toughest challenges

“This book is an excellent way to understand how Drucker’s ideas apply to today’s dilemmas, be they the problems faced by organizations, by governments, or by individuals.” — from the Foreword, by Charles Handy

“This compilation of smart essays on the ‘Drucker difference’ illustrates how astonishingly wide the wings of Drucker’s wisdom have spread. We all stand gratefully in his shadows, silent in awe.” — Warren Bennis, Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California

“Much has been written by and about my friend and mentor, Peter Drucker. But this book is different. It is written by those who knew and understood him as friends and faculty colleagues and reflects his thoughts and principles as they are currently being taught to those who will be making a difference for tomorrow.” — C. William Pollard, Chairman Emeritus, The ServiceMaster Company

“The Drucker Difference is a unique book that enables present and future executives to capitalize on Peter Drucker’s wisdom and to comprehend that knowledge from an entirely new perspective.” — Minglo Shao, Chairman, Bright China

Peter F. Drucker is one of the most influential business thinkers in history and is widely considered the father of modern management. His ideas are especially relevant today as Drucker’s insights on effective management, ethical leadership, and social responsibility have never been more essential.

THE DRUCKER DIFFERENCE (McGraw-Hill; October 25, 2009; $29.95) is an exciting new assessment of Drucker’s timeless leadership principles based on the most popular course at Claremont University’s Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and written by leading Drucker scholars. Released in conjunction with the centennial celebration of Drucker’s birth, it provides readers with new insights and interpretations of Drucker's work.

In contributed chapters, each professor from the Drucker School takes a single, classic aspect of Drucker’s work, examines its implications in today’s business environment and applies an up-to-date and contemporary interpretation of Drucker’s wisdom. These top business thinkers analyze Drucker’s views on the most critical issues of our time, including:

Government, business, and civil society (Ira Jackson)
Applying collaboration to “knowledge work” (Craig L. Pearce)
Drucker’s management vision (Richard Smith)
Economic environment, innovation, and industry dynamics (Hideki Yamawaki)

Covering everything from marketing and leadership to strategy and governance, THE DRUCKER DIFFERENCE reveals how individual organizations and executives can adapt and apply Drucker’s strategies.

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

~ Craig L. Pearce is Professor of Management at The Drucker School of Management. His research on shared leadership has been featured in The Wall Street Journal. Pearce’s most recent book is Shared Leadership, and his forthcoming book is Share the Lead.

~ Joseph A. Maciariello is the Horton Professor of Management at The Drucker School of Management. He coauthored The Daily Drucker and The Effective Executive in Action with Peter F. Drucker and recently carried on Drucker’s legacy by revising two existing Drucker books: Management and Management Cases.

~ Hideki Yamawaki is Professor of Management and Associate Dean at The Drucker School of Management. His most recent book is Japanese Exports and Foreign Direct Investment: Imperfect Competition in International Markets.

~ Murat Binay holds a Ph.D. in finance and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Binay’s research interests lie in institutional investors, initial public offerings, payout policy, performance evaluation, and corporate governance. He has taught courses on corporate finance, financial strategy, investments, financial institutions, and derivatives.

~ Jenny Darroch’s research and teaching focuses on marketing strategies that generate growth. She recently coedited a special issue of the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science: A Tribute to Peter Drucker and has a new book coming out called Marketing Through Turbulent Times.

~ Cornelis A. “Kees” de Kluyver is the former dean and Masatoshi Ito Professor of Management at the Drucker School. His most recent books are A Primer of Corporate Governance and Strategy: A View from the Top, 3^rd edition.

~ Richard Ellsworth’s teaching and research have focused on outstanding executive leadership. Before joining the Drucker School, he taught at Harvard Business School and held senior management positions with Kaiser Aetna. Publications include Leadership and the Quest for Integrity (with Joseph Badaracco) and Leading with Purpose. Ellsworth received his doctorate from Harvard University.

~ Jeremy Hunter teaches courses on managing oneself and transforming “the executive mind.” He holds degrees from Harvard and Wittenberg Universities and the University of Chicago.

~ Ira A. Jackson is the dean of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, where he is also professor of management. He has extensive experience in business, government, civil society, and higher education.

~ Karen Linkletter is a lecturer in the American Studies Department of California State University, Fullerton. She and Professor Maciariello coauthored an article on Drucker entitled “Genealogy of a Social Ethicist,” forthcoming in the Journal of Management History. She received her Ph.D. in history from Claremont Graduate University in 2004.

~ Jean Lipman-Blumen holds the Thornton F. Bradshaw Chair in Public Policy and serves as professor of organizational behavior at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University. She is director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Leadership at the Drucker Ito School.

~ Roberto Pedace is an associate professor in the economics department at Scripps College. Prior to this, he was an associate professor in the Drucker School at Claremont Graduate University. His research interests are in the area of labor economics and his work addresses a variety of important public policy issues.

~ Jay Prag has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester. He teaches finance, economics, strategy, and leadership at the Drucker School and Harvey Mudd College. Jay has been voted Outstanding Teacher 15 times in his 23 years at the Claremont Colleges. He also teaches financial analysis at Southern California Edison.

~ Vijay Sathe is professor of management at the Drucker School. He is the author of corporate Entrepreneurship, four other books, and numerous journal publications. He has taught in MBA and executive education programs around the world and has advised leaders in all sectors of society.

~ J. Scott Scherer graduated from the executive management program at the Drucker School and holds a degree in economics from Duke University. He is a principal at CoreWorks Consulting and serves as an executive coach. Scott received his training in integral coaching from New Ventures West in San Francisco.

~ Richard Smith is the Boyd Chair and professor of finance at University of California, Riverside. Before joining UCR, he was associate dean, professor of financial management, and served as director of the Venture Finance Institute at the Drucker School. He is the author of Entrepreneurial Finance and more than 35 journal articles.

~ Sarah Smith Orr teaches social sector leadership, governance, and resource development. She is executive director of the Kravis Leadership Institute, through which she published Improving Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations, Women Directors in the Board Room: Adding Value, Making a Difference, Boardroom Realities.

~ James Wallace has had extensive private industry and academic experience prior to joining the faculty at Claremont Graduate University. He has worked as an auditor in public accounting, as a division controller for a major health provider, and as a faculty member of the University of California, Irvine.

ABOUT PETER DRUCKER

Born in Vienna on November 19, 1909, Peter Drucker had a profound impact on how people around the world organize themselves in the realms of business, government and civil society.

Drucker’s 39 books, along with his countless scholarly and popular articles, predicted many of the major developments of the late 20^th century, including privatization and decentralization; the rise of Japan to economic world power; the decisive importance of marketing and innovation; and the emergence of the information society with its necessity of lifelong learning. In 1959, Drucker coined the term “knowledge worker,” and he spent the rest of his life examining an age in which an unprecedented number of people use their brains more than their backs.

Drucker’s first major work, The End of Economic Man, was published in 1939. Driven by an insatiable curiosity about the world around him—and a deep desire to make that world a better place—Drucker continued to write long after most others would have put away their pens. The result was a ceaseless procession of landmarks and classics: Concept of the Corporation in 1946, The Practice of Management in 1954, The Effective Executive in 1967, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices in 1973, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in 1985, Post-Capitalist Society in 1993, Management Challenges for the 21^st Century in 1999.

Drucker, who had taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Bennington College, and New York University, spent the last 30-plus years of his career on the faculty at Claremont Graduate University. In 2001, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. He died in November 2005, just shy of his 96^th birthday.

ABOUT THE DRUCKER SCHOOL

The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management is training the next generation of effective managers and ethical leaders for all sectors of society: private, public and philanthropic. Inspired by principles and practices advanced by Peter Drucker, the school approaches management as a liberal art and seeks to tackle some of the biggest questions challenging global society.

Part of the world-renowned Claremont Colleges and located in the foothills of the beautiful San Gabriel mountains 35 miles from downtown Los Angeles, the Drucker School is more than just a traditional “B” school; it is also an “M” (management) and an “L” (leadership) school.

With a strong commitment to research, values orientation, and an intimate graduate-only curriculum, the school was recently ranked fifth in the nation by Princeton Review in faculty quality. The Drucker School offers a variety of professional and doctoral degrees, including MBA, EMBA, MSFE (jointly with CGU’s School of Math), MA in Arts Management (jointly with CGU’s School of Arts and Humanities) and MA in Politics, Business, and Economics (jointly with CGU’s School of Politics and Economics).

Named for both a pioneering thinker (Peter Drucker) and an accomplished doer (Masatoshi Ito), the school produces graduates who have a strong sense of social responsibility and a deep desire to make a difference by doing well while also doing good.

To learn more about its mission and Peter F. Drucker’s work, please visit www.drucker.cgu.edu or www.thedruckerinstitute.com.

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10/09

The Drucker School releases the Drucker Centennial Edition of its video magazine

The Drucker Centennial Edition of the Drucker School's video magazine, available online now, features:

Meet Our Students: Scott Scherer. Join us as we sit down with Scott to discuss why he was so driven to be involved in the Centennial celebration, and to share his excitement about the notable speakers and events planned as part of the Centennial celebration in the weeks ahead.
Meet our Staff: Zachary First, Managing Director - Drucker Institute. Find out why Zachary believes Peter Drucker's insights are timeless and, during this time of Drucker Centennial celebrations, what he personally perceives as Peter Drucker's greatest legacy.
Dean's Message. It's the middle of the Drucker Centennial and that has Dean Ira Jackson even more energized and excited about all things Drucker. Tune into the Dean's Message to hear all of Dean Jackson's news and views.
The Drucker Centennial. The Drucker Centennial marks the 100th birthday of Peter F. Drucker, respectfully and reverently known as the 'Father of Modern Management.' This two-year, world-wide series of events will be a time of commemoration, celebration, and renewal with Centennial events being held in Japan, China, Brazil, Austria, New York, Los Angeles, and Claremont.
Drucker Insights: On the Development of a Unique Vision. Where did Peter Drucker get his vision and how did he acquire his knowledge? Doris Drucker, Peter's wife of almost seventy years, and undoubtedly the person who knew Peter better than anyone, reveals the answers to these questions.

9/09

'Drucker Apps' 9/25/09: Management Insights on the Lehman Bros. Collapse

This installment of Drucker Apps springs off of the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers - a firm that, like so many on Wall Street, forgot that fat profits mean nothing if the underlying business can't be sustained. As Drucker has written: "The most critical management job is to balance short term and long term. In the long term, today's one-sided emphasis is deleterious and dangerous."

This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

In the short run, we're all dead
Heal thyself
A Fuld's errand
See no evil, hear no evil

To read the full Drucker Apps, click here.

Drucker Apps is distributed twice a month and available via download from our website or via our RSS feed.

The Drucker School and Drucker Institute Announce the Global Celebration of Peter Drucker’s 100th Birthday

Groundbreaking series of events to highlight and celebrate the significance of Drucker’s legacy

The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and The Drucker Institute announced today the details of the global commemoration and celebration of the life of the late Peter F. Drucker, eminent author, winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the father of modern management.

The Drucker Centennial, which marks Drucker’s 100th birthday, will be crowned by a week of special events at Claremont Graduate University and in locations throughout Los Angeles starting in November 2009. Event speakers include leading management thinkers Jim Collins, Stephen Covey, Warren Bennis, Ken Blanchard and Charles Handy.

In addition to hosting these locally based activities, the Drucker School and Drucker Institute will take part in a series of Centennial events around the world—from New York City to Seoul, Vienna to Beijing, Tokyo to Sao Paulo—all highlighting Drucker’s seminal teachings on effective management, ethical leadership and social responsibility.

“The timing couldn’t be more urgent,” said Ira A. Jackson, dean of the Drucker School at CGU. “With fallout from the financial crisis continuing and institutions of all sorts being viewed with deep mistrust by the public, Drucker’s insights have never been more essential. Clearly, we need Drucker now more than ever.”

Underscoring the importance of Drucker’s ideas and ideals is a roster of leaders, thinkers and management luminaries who are serving as chairs of the Centennial. They include John Bachmann, senior partner at Edward Jones, chairman of the Drucker School Board of Visitors and CGU trustee; Warren Bennis, renowned author and USC professor; social entrepreneur Bob Buford, chairman of the Drucker Institute; John Byrne, the executive editor of BusinessWeek; Jim Collins, the bestselling author of Good to Great and How the Mighty Fall; author and inventor Doris Drucker; Rajiv Dutta, former president of eBay Marketplaces; and David Gergen, director of Harvard University’s Center for Public Leadership, CNN commentator and former White House advisor.

Also serving as Centennial chairs are Charles Handy, co-founder of the London Business School and author of The Age of Unreason and The Elephant and the Flea; Frances Hesselbein, chair of the Leader to Leader Institute, former CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom; Masatoshi Ito, founder and honorary chairman of the Ito-Yokado Group, Asia’s largest retailer; Harvard University’s Rosabeth Moss Kanter, author of SuperCorp, Confidence and 16 other books; Alan Khazei, CEO of Be The Change and co-founder of City Year; Wendy Kopp, founder and CEO of Teach for America; A.G. Lafley, chairman of Procter & Gamble; Minglo Shao, chairman of Bright China Holding Ltd. and head of the Peter F. Drucker Academy; and Rick Warren, the pastor of Saddleback Church and the author of The Purpose Driven Life, the best-selling hardback book in American history.

In addition to various forums, conferences and other gatherings (listed below), the Centennial will include other significant milestones, such as the publication later this year by McGraw-Hill of The Drucker Difference: What the World’s Greatest Management Thinker Means to Today’s Business Leaders. The book, which analyzes Drucker’s most important ideas in the context of today’s turbulent business environment, was written by Drucker School faculty.

Also as part of the Centennial, the stretch of 11th Street in Claremont that runs alongside the Drucker School and the Drucker Institute will have its name changed to Drucker Way.

What’s more, the Centennial period has already seen a doubling around the world of the number of Drucker Societies—all-volunteer groups that use Drucker’s teachings to bring about positive change in their local communities. “The Drucker Societies, now two-dozen strong in 15 countries and boasting hundreds of volunteers, are the living, breathing embodiment of Peter Drucker’s philosophy,” said Rick Wartzman, executive director of the Drucker Institute, a campus-wide resource of CGU. “We are thrilled to be extending the reach of the network as part of the Centennial.”

Wartzman noted that it was the Drucker Society of Korea that helped kick off the Centennial by organizing and hosting a two-day conference in June on innovation among companies and social enterprises.

The list below highlights events for fall 2009 from the Drucker Centennial calendar. (The Centennial will continue through fall 2010). For additional details, including times and exact locations, please visit www.drucker100.com. The Centennial also has a bevy of social media tools to keep you connected. You can find us on Twitter; check us out on YouTube; subscribe to our RSS feed; and go here for a video about Peter Drucker.

October 6 – 7, 2009
World Business Forum, New York City, NY
Each year, thousands of attendees from around the globe gather at Radio City Music Hall to network, advance their businesses and be part of this annual live experience with an incredible lineup of global leaders, brilliant minds, business icons and legendary CEOs. Speakers will include President Bill Clinton, Jack Welch, Gary Hamel, Jeffrey Sachs and Drucker School Dean Ira Jackson. This year's World Business Forum has been officially designated a Drucker Centennial event.

October 14, 2009
CEO Forum, Claremont, CA
Top CEOs gather to discuss what it takes to be a leader in an age when the challenges facing our planet, our society, and our individual organizations are more complex and demanding than any known in our lifetimes. This event, hosted by Procter & Gamble Chairman A.G. Lafley, is by invitation only.

October 16 – 19, 2009
Drucker Centennial in China and Hong Kong
Drucker Centennial commemorations will take place on October 16 in Beijing and at a forum at the Nanjing University School of Business, with keynote speeches and concurrent sessions on Drucker on management. On October 17, Drucker forums for business, government and social sector leaders will take place in Nanchang and Jinan. On October 18, a similar forum will take place in Shanghai. On October 19, a Drucker forum in Hong Kong will include the presentation of the Bright China Drucker Awards for Innovation in Civil Society and for Corporate Social Integration, and a Drucker 100 Power Dinner for 300 top leaders in government, business and the social sector.

DRUCKER CENTENNIAL WEEK CELEBRATION (NOVEMBER 2 – 8, 2009)

November 2, 2009
Opening of Japanese art exhibition, Claremont, CA
This exhibition, on the campus of Scripps College, will showcase pieces from the internationally renowned Sanso Collection. Curated by Bruce Coats, chairman of Scripps College’s Department of Art History, the exhibit will feature more than 30 Japanese scroll paintings and survey a wide variety of responses to the teachings of Zen Buddhism. Displaying the Sanso Collection as part of the Centennial also highlights Peter Drucker’s belief that management was a liberal art and his ability to draw insights from a wide variety of disciplines. Drucker lectured on Japanese art at Pomona College from 1975-1985. The exhibition will run through Sunday, December 6.

November 2, 2009
Ken Blanchard, live in Claremont, CA
Ken Blanchard is the co-founder of the international management training and consulting firm that bears his name. Blanchard’s book, The One Minute Manager, co-authored with Spencer Johnson, has sold more than 13 million copies. Blanchard is also the author of Raving Fans, Gung Ho!, Whale Done! and Leading at a Higher Level, among many others. His books have combined sales of 18 million-plus copies in more than 25 languages.

November 3, 2009
Management All-Stars forum, Los Angeles, CA
This event, at the Club Nokia at L.A. Live Theatre, will feature Ken Blanchard; USC professor Warren Bennis, hailed by Forbes as “the dean of leadership gurus”; and British social philosopher Charles Handy. These three management giants will pay tribute to Peter Drucker’s path-breaking insights while relating his work to their own.

November 4 – 5, 2009
Frances Hesselbein, live in Claremont, CA
Frances Hesselbein is the chair of the Leader to Leader Institute (formerly the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management). She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998. The award recognized her leadership as chief executive of the Girl Scouts of the USA from 1976-1990, her role as the founding president of the Drucker Foundation and her service as “a pioneer for women, diversity, and inclusion. Recently, Hesselbein was named the chair for the Study of Leadership at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

November 5, 2009
Stephen Covey, live in downtown Los Angeles, CA
Stephen Covey has been recognized as one of Time magazine’s 25 most influential Americans. An internationally respected leadership authority, family expert, teacher, organizational consultant and author, he has sold more than 20 million books in 38 languages. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was named the No. 1 Most Influential Business Book of the 20th Century by CEO magazine.

*November 7, 2009
Drucker Centennial Day with Jim Collins, Claremont, CA
Drucker Day brings together Drucker School alumni and others interested in hearing great speakers, taking mini-classes with faculty, networking and enjoying great food. Jim Collins, bestselling author of Built to Last, Good to Great and How the Mighty Fall, will keynote the event. In addition, the day will feature a raft of other headline speakers, including Charles Handy; former Monsanto CEO Bob Shapiro; Faye Washington, CEO of YWCA of Greater Los Angeles; authors Will Hopper and Bob Nelson; and more. Concurrently, all Drucker Centennial Day guests will have access to a day-long Expo of Drucker-related activities and organizations that will showcase ways to stay connected with the local and global Drucker community.

DRUCKER’S 100th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION (NOVEMBER 19, 2009)

November 19 – 20, 2009
Drucker Global Forum, Vienna
Under the patronage of Michael Häupl, Mayor of Vienna, the Drucker Society of Austria will hold a major conference on management and social responsibility in the 21st Century. The forum will take place on the occasion of Peter Drucker’s 100th birthday in the place of his birth. Speakers will include C.K. Prahalad, Charles Handy, Philip Kotler, Fredmund Malik, Hermann Simon, Yves Doz and many more.

Drucker’s 39 books, along with his countless scholarly and popular articles, predicted many of the major developments of the late 20th century, including privatization and decentralization; the rise of Japan to economic world power; the decisive importance of marketing and innovation; and the emergence of the information society with its necessity of lifelong learning. In 1959, Drucker coined the term “knowledge worker,” and he spent the rest of his life examining an age in which an unprecedented number of people use their brains more than their backs.

Drucker’s first major work, The End of Economic Man, was published in 1939. Driven by an insatiable curiosity about the world around him—and a deep desire to make that world a better place—Drucker continued to write long after most others would have put away their pens. The result was a ceaseless procession of landmarks and classics: Concept of the Corporation in 1946, The Practice of Management in 1954, The Effective Executive in 1967, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices in 1973, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in 1985, Post-Capitalist Society in 1993, Management Challenges for the 21st Century in 1999.

Drucker, who had taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Bennington College, and New York University, spent the last 30-plus years of his career on the faculty at Claremont Graduate University. In 2001, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. He died in November 2005, just shy of his 96th birthday.

ABOUT THE DRUCKER SCHOOL
The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management is training the next generation of effective managers and ethical leaders for all sectors of society: private, public and philanthropic. Inspired by principles and practices advanced by Peter Drucker, the school approaches management as a liberal art and seeks to tackle some of the biggest questions challenging global society.

Part of the renowned Claremont Colleges and located in the foothills of the beautiful San Gabriel mountains 35 miles from downtown Los Angeles, the Drucker School is more than just a traditional business school; it is also considered a premiere management and leadership school.

With a strong commitment to research, values orientation, and an intimate graduate-only curriculum, the school was recently ranked fifth in the nation by Princeton Review in faculty quality. The Drucker School offers a variety of professional and doctoral degrees, including MBA, EMBA, MSFE (jointly with CGU’s School of Math), MA in Arts Management (jointly with CGU’s School of Arts and Humanities), MA in Politics, Business, and Economics (jointly with CGU’s School of Politics and Economics) and a concurrent JD/MBA with Southwestern Law School.

The Institute is a close affiliate of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, which is training the next generation of leaders and managers to do good while they do well.

ABOUT CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY
Founded in 1925, Claremont Graduate University is one of the top graduate schools in the United States. Our nine academic schools conduct leading-edge research and award masters and doctoral degrees in 22 disciplines.

Because the world’s problems are not simple or easily defined, diverse faculty and students research and study across the traditional discipline boundaries to create new and practical solutions for the major problems plaguing our world. A Southern California-based graduate school devoted entirely to graduate research and study, CGU boasts a low student-to-faculty ratio.

9/09

Come hear Drucker Executive-in-Residence Rajiv Dutta "in conversation" on September 24

invite you to the fourth in a series of Drucker Centennial conversations with business leaders on managing in the 21^st Century.
“The Art of the Narrative” The importance of stories in inspiring independent players in the organization to act in a concerted way
	Rajiv Dutta current Drucker Executive-in-Residence and former President, eBay Marketplaces, PayPal and Skype
	in conversation with
	Rick Wartzman Executive Director of the Drucker Institute and award-winning author

Thursday, September 24, 2009
7:00 pm
Balch Auditorium at Scripps College
1030 Columbia Avenue
Claremont, California 91711

Refreshments will be served at 6:00 pm

Admission is free, though seating is limited and reservations are strongly encouraged.
Please RSVP to series@druckerinstitute.com.

For more on the Drucker Centennial go to www.drucker100.com.

Drucker Institute executive director speaks on leadership in Illinois

Rick Wartzman, executive director of the Drucker Institute, gave the keynote address at a luncheon celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Northern Illinois Center for Nonprofit Excellence. It was titled “Leading Today.”

The Sept. 14 speech was delivered to more than 150 community leaders in Rockford, Illinois, including Mayor Lawrence Morrissey. The Center for Nonprofit Excellence, which provides information, education, consultation and resource support to area social-sector organizations, is part of Rockford College. For more about it, click here.

In his talk, Wartzman shared six lessons from Peter Drucker on leadership. Wartzman noted that these lessons are particularly important in a place like Rockford, which has seen a huge loss of manufacturing jobs. “I know this region has been particularly hard hit by the Great Recession,” Wartzman said, “but also by something more fundamental: what Peter Drucker identified as the historic shift from manual work to knowledge work.”

The best leaders, Wartzman remarked, begin by asking, “What needs to be done?” rather than “What do I want to do?”; embrace, instead of fear, their colleagues’ strengths; regularly measure their performance; willingly abandon what isn’t working; earn trust by showing consistency between their words and deeds; and balance the responsibility they have to focus on their own organization with what happens to the community at large.

9/09

'Drucker Apps' 9/11/09: Management As a Liberal Art

This installment of Drucker Apps was inspired by the start of the school year, in which the teaching of subjects such as Shakespeare strike some as not terribly relevant or practical in today’s fast-paced world. Drucker, however, saw great value in studying the humanities. As he observed, “Management…deals with people, their values, their growth and development—and this makes it a humanity." This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

Management as a liberal art
Where work and society intersect
Living in two worlds
Jane Austen, management guru?

To read the full Drucker Apps, click here.

Drucker Apps is distributed twice a month and available via download from our website or via our RSS feed.

The Drucker Institute releases Sept/Oct 2009 newsletter

The September/October 2009 issue of The Window, the Drucker Institute's newsletter, covers Drucker Unpacked—our brand new line of self-guided workshops-in-a-box—the multi-sector efforts of the Drucker Society of Northern California, and the practical insights that Peter Drucker was talking about in 1941.

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8/09

'Drucker Apps' 8/14/09: Management Insights on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

This installment of Drucker Apps was inspired by President Obama’s recent radio address about the importance of innovation to economic recovery. As Drucker has written: “Innovation and entrepreneurship have to become an integral, life-sustaining activity in our organizations, our economy, our society.” This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

Innovate—or perish
How entrepreneurship boosts productivity
Seeing change as an opportunity
Is “new knowledge” really new?

To read the full Drucker Apps, click here.

Drucker Apps is distributed twice a month and available via download from our website or via our RSS feed.

Drucker Institute managing director is named a fellow of the National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education

Zach First, managing director of the Drucker Institute, has been named a fellow of the National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education.

The National Forum will bring together a select group of rising stars in the U.S. academy from across the disciplines to think through the large and unwieldy questions that stand at the heart of innovation and rejuvenation in the liberal arts. These fellows hail from the nation's top research universities, including Princeton, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Harvard, Yale, Chicago, Berkeley, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

“It is a tremendous honor to join the National Forum,” First said. “Peter Drucker devoted more than sixty years to the study of management as a liberal art, work that the Drucker Institute today carries forward through its research and educational programs. I hope to be able to share some of Drucker's wisdom while bringing back to Claremont ideas and energy for promising new approaches.”

For more on the National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education, click here.

8/09

'Drucker Apps' 7/31/09: Management Insights on Competition

This installment of Drucker Apps was inspired by the intensifying competition between Google and Microsoft on several fronts, from software to search. As Drucker has written: “Competition must always be defined according to the customer’s concept of what product or service he buys. ” This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

The spirit of competition
The perils of complacency
Getting a leg up by developing talent
Think globally, act competitively

To read the full Drucker Apps, click here.

Drucker Apps is distributed twice a month and available via download from our website or via our RSS feed.

'Drucker Apps' 7/17/09: Management Insights on Managing the Boss

This installment of Drucker Apps was inspired by midyear performance-review season—a good time to remember that how well you do your job often depends on how effectively you can help the boss do his or hers. As Drucker has written about the boss-subordinate relationship: “Subordinates do not, as a rule, rise to position and prominence over the prostrate bodies of incompetent bosses.” This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

Don’t suck up, manage up
Who’s the boss?
The power of today’s subordinate
Two crucial questions to ask your boss

To read the full Drucker Apps, click here.

Drucker Apps is distributed twice a month and available via download from our website or via our RSS feed.

The 2009 World Business Forum and ExpoManagement join the Drucker Centennial

The Drucker Institute and HSM have announced that both the 2009 World Business Forum and 2009 ExpoManagement will be official Drucker Centennial events.

The World Business Forum is the leading international symposium for the business community, and will take place on October 6 and 7 in New York City. Held every year at historic Radio City Music Hall®, and attended by more than 4,000 top executives from across the globe, the forum brings top business, political and academic figures together to discuss the most critical issues of the day. ExpoManagement is the Brazilian companion of the World Business Forum, and will take place in Sao Paulo from November 30 – December 2. (Click here to read the ExpoManagement brochure.)

“During the next 12 months, HSM will join the world in celebrating what would have been Peter Drucker’s 100th birthday,” added Patricia Meier, CEO of HSM Americas. “HSM is extremely proud that the World Business Forum has been chosen to be one of the select few events to be part of the Drucker Centennial celebration. Consistent with Peter Drucker, HSM believes that knowledge is the critical driver of change and growth, and it is an honor to be associated with such an iconic visionary.”

Marcos L. de Almeida Braga, the CEO of HSM Brasil, noted that “the Drucker Centennial is not only about remembering the master who anticipated the transition to a knowledge economy, but also exploring the best paths to cope with this change, namely, managerial effectiveness, ethical leadership and social responsibility.”

About HSM

The World Business Forum and ExpoManagement are organized by HSM (www.hsmglobal.com), a multimedia company founded in 1987, specializing in executive education. HSM brings together the world’s top executives and thought leaders to analyze and debate the latest and most pressing issues in business, science, technology, and the economy. Through conferences, print media, online content and TV, HSM generates new ideas and fresh thinking about the challenges facing business leaders today. HSM believes that knowledge is the critical driver for change and development.

7/09

'Drucker Apps' 7/02/09: Management Insights on American History

This installment of Drucker Apps was inspired by Independence Day, a time to celebrate, but also contemplate, the American experience. As Drucker has written about the nation’s place in a changing world: “America…will have to learn to be one of…half a dozen major players…one of equals. ” This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

•    Where Jefferson missed the mark
•    The great American art form: politics
•    The dangers of charismatic leadership
•    Why the U.S. is no longer "the big boss"

To read the full Drucker Apps, click here.

Drucker Apps is distributed twice a month and available via download from our website or via our RSS feed.

Drucker Institute executive director is named to the board of the National Human Services Assembly

Rick Wartzman, executive director of the Drucker Institute, has been named to the board of the National Human Services Assembly.

Based in Washington, the National Assembly is an association of leading national nonprofits in the fields of health, human and community development, and human services. Member organizations include the American Red Cross, Boys & Girls Clubs of America and United Way of America.

“It is a tremendous honor to join the National Assembly,” Wartzman said. “Peter Drucker had great insight into the importance of the social sector, and how it could be effectively managed. I hope to be able to share some of his wisdom and make a real contribution.”

For more on the National Assembly, click here.

6/09

The Drucker Institute releases July/Aug 2009 newsletter

The July/August 2009 issue of The Window, the Drucker Institute's newsletter, covers the reach of Drucker's thinking at events around the world, the powerful network effects now taking off within the Drucker Society Global Network, and the connection between Peter Drucker, a U.S. Senator, and a world-class collection of Japanese art.

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7/09

'Drucker Apps' 6/19/09: Management Insights on the Failure of GM

This installment of Drucker Apps was inspired by this month's bankruptcy filing by General Motors--a company that Drucker first delved deeply into in the 1940s, resulting in his landmark book, Concept of the Corporation. Decades later, he was still paying close attention to GM, observing that companies often encounter big problems and then try to patch them, as GM attempted in the early 1980s. "But patching never works," Drucker wrote.

This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

The dire consequences of consistency
The failings of the patch kit
Can the Toyota juggernaut be stopped?
What the old guard can teach the new

To read the full Drucker Apps, click here.

Drucker Apps is distributed twice a month and available via download from our website or via our RSS feed.

The Drucker Institute and WildWorks announce ‘Drucker Unpacked’

The Drucker Institute and WildWorks Group, a leading process-consulting firm to Fortune 500 companies, have announced Drucker Unpacked—an engaging, do-it-yourself workshop-in-a-box that distills decades of Peter Drucker’s most essential ideas so that up to 15 people inside any organization can turn them into action.

The new product was unveiled on June 1 at the American Society for Training & Development’s International Conference & Exposition in Washington. The first Drucker Unpacked “kits” will be available in October for $399 each.

Each Drucker Unpacked kit comes packaged with a facilitator’s guide; relevant Drucker writings; “knowledge templates” that capture Drucker’s thinking in graphical form and make his key principles come alive; “discussion templates” with group exercises; and “personal action cards,” on which individuals record their own specific set of tasks based on the output of the group.

The Drucker Unpacked lineup will initially be comprised of 5 kits:

The Right Call: How to Make an Effective Decision
Reality Check: Are Your Assumptions About Customers, Markets and Technology on the Money?
What The Customer Values: Understanding Who Buys What You Sell—And Who Doesn’t
Out With The Old: Why Abandoning Yesterday is Essential for Success
The Art Of The New: Spotting Opportunities for Innovation

For more information or to receive an email alert when Drucker Unpacked is ready for purchase, please write to unpacked@druckerinstitute.com.

For more detail on Drucker Unpacked, click here.

8/09

'Drucker Apps' 6/05/09: Management Insights on Health-Care

This installment of Drucker Apps was inspired by President Obama’s call to lawmakers this week to move immediately on health-care reform legislation, saying the next couple of months are a “make-or-break” period for action. In the U.S., the quality of medical care is lacking by many measures, while costs are skyrocketing out of control. Drucker’s observation that the “escalation of health-care costs is the result, in large measure, of the hospital’s having become an economic monstrosity” only re-enforces the urgency behind President Obama’s remarks. This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

Rx for high health costs
Making the most of medical IT
Why good management = good medicine
Should there be a doctor in the house?

To read the full Drucker Apps, click here.

Drucker Apps is distributed twice a month and available via download from our website or via our RSS feed.

Co-Chair of the Drucker Centennial Committee Jim Collins featured in NY Times

The May 24 New York Times carried a profile of management scholar and Drucker Centennial co-chair Jim Collins ("For This Guru, No Question Is Too Big") in which he talked about the seminal advice he received from Peter Drucker.

“Do you want to build ideas first and foremost?” Collins recalled Mr. Drucker asking him, trying to capture his mentor’s Austrian accent. “Zen you must not build a big organization, because zen you will end up managing zat organization.”

To read the full article, click here.

5/09

Institute gathers global audience for third annual Drucker Society Symposium

Some 50 people from nine countries met in Claremont from May 20-22 to share their experiences in bringing about positive change in their local communities through Peter Drucker’s teachings.

Those in attendance were part of the Drucker Society Global Network—a set of all-volunteer groups that are implementing a series of programs, developed in conjunction with the Drucker Institute, that are intended to convert Peter Drucker’s ideas and ideals into action and results.

Their activities include book clubs in which members discuss Drucker’s writings and how to apply them to their companies and communities; Drucker-based training programs for nonprofit organizations; presentations on Drucker and his principles for high school students; workshops on innovation for would-be entrepreneurs; and much more.

The gathering—the third annual Drucker Society Global Symposium—was facilitated by the WildWorks Group, a Dallas-based firm that custom-designs collaborative work sessions.

“There was a big shift in the Symposium this year,” said Rick Wartzman, executive director of the Drucker Institute. “The first two times we convened, we had a parade of speeches, envisioning what the Drucker Societies would actually do. Now, they’re off and doing—and beginning to make a real difference in the lives of many. And so this year, they were in position to share best practices and learn from each other.”

For a taste of how the Drucker Societies are making an impact, check out the newly released video below.

5/09

Procter & Gamble's AG Lafley draws on Drucker to define the role of the CEO

A.G. Lafley, the chairman and chief executive officer of Procter & Gamble Co., drew extensively on notes left behind by Peter Drucker to write "What Only the CEO Can Do," an article published in the May 2009 Harvard Business Review.

“I went to see [Drucker] two or three times a year towards the end of his life,” Lafley told the Financial Times. “I committed to turning his notes into something.”

"What is the unique work of CEOs—work that only they can do and that they must do?,” Lafley writes in his HBR piece. “I think it comes down to four fundamental tasks, drawn from Drucker’s observations:

1. Defining and interpreting the meaningful outside

2. Answering, time and again, the two-part question, What business are we in and what business are we not in?

3. Balancing sufficient yield in the present with necessary investment in the future

4. Shaping the values and standards of the organization"

To read Lafley's full HBR article, click here.

5/09

Drucker Institute’s executive director is featured guest on MIPtalk

The Drucker Institute’s executive director, Rick Wartzman, is the current featured guest on MIPtalk, which bills itself as “conversations with the world’s most interesting people.”

Wartzman discusses, among other things, the work of the Drucker Institute and the philosophy of Peter Drucker.

“Profit can’t be the only thing that a company cares about,” Wartzman says on the show. “It can’t be the only thing managers think about. . . . When profit becomes all . . . you care about the next quarter over the long-term health and stability of the company. And that’s exactly what we’re seeing now.”

To hear the episode, dubbed “the scholarship of common sense,” click here.

5/09

Drucker Institute to lead a workshop at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service, June 22-24

Drucker Institute Executive Director Rick Wartzman is set to lead a workshop on Peter Drucker’s principles for nonprofit effectiveness at the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service, which is set for June 22-24 in San Francisco.

“Given Peter Drucker’s strong interest in the social sector, it’s wonderful to be part of the world’s largest gathering of volunteer and service leaders from the nonprofit, government and corporate sectors,” Wartzman said.

For more on the conference, which is being co-convened by the Points of Light Institute and the Corporation for National and Community Service, please click here.

Besides being a conference presenter, Wartzman has also served on the conference Host Committee and as a member of the Nonprofit Working Group, which helped shape programming for the event.

5/09

Drucker Institute to co-host conference in Korea on social responsibility, June 16-17

The Drucker Institute will co-host a major conference titled “The Drucker Solution” in Seoul on June 16-17.

The conference—which is being led by the Drucker Society of Korea and co-hosted, as well, by the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and the Korea Chamber of Commerce & Industry—has been designated a Drucker Centennial event. The Centennial includes an array of activities around the globe to mark the 100^th birthday of the late Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management. (For more on the Centennial, including a full events calendar, please click here.)

The focus of the Korean conference will be on the management of ideas, people and the environment in a socially responsible, ethical and sustainable manner.

In true Drucker fashion, the conference has been designed to foster dialogue across sectors. Its aim is to help social entrepreneurs learn from those in the private sector, as well as help corporate CEOs and managers learn form successful nonprofits and social enterprises. Among the presenters at the event will be Drucker Institute Executive Director Rick Wartzman and Ira Jackson, dean of the Drucker School and a Drucker Institute board member.

For more on the conference, please click here.

5/09

'Drucker Apps' 5/08/09: Management Insights on National Service, Nonprofits and Giving Back

This installment of Drucker Apps was inspired by President Obama’s recent signing of the Serve America Act, which is designed to spur service and volunteering across the country. The need for the law is clear, for as Peter Drucker said, “If we don’t want to have serious social problems, we have to increase the effectiveness and the resources of the nonprofit sector.” This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

• A balm for a sick society
• Getting beyond good intentions
• Why giving is as good as receiving
• The volunteer's responsibility

To read the full Drucker Apps, click here.

Drucker Apps is distributed twice a month and available via download from our website or via our RSS feed.

The Drucker Institute releases May/June 2009 newsletter

The May/June 2009 issue of The Window, the Drucker Institute's newsletter, includes a letter from Amman, previews the 2009 Drucker Society Global Symposium, and reveals the exception Peter Drucker made in his advice to Cesar Chavez.

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4/09

'Drucker Apps' 4/23/09: Management Insights on the High Cost of Higher Education

This installment of Drucker Apps was inspired by the looming due date for high school seniors to make their college decisions—a major commitment for most any family even in good times, let alone in the current economic climate. Yet, given the importance of a college degree for career advancement, what choice do people have but to try to foot the bill? As Drucker once noted, “Few organizations in history have been granted the amount of power that today’s university has.” This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

•    The ever-higher cost of higher education
•    The university at the gatekeeper to life
•    The community college as an answer
•    Will there still be ivy if there are no walls?

To read the full Drucker Apps, click here.

Drucker Apps is distributed twice a month and available via download from our website or via our RSS feed.

'Drucker Apps' 4/8/09: Management Insights Inspired by Opening Day

This installment of Drucker Apps was inspired by Major League Baseball’s Opening Day – the beginning of a season that is sure to bring us not only great athletic feats, but also a window into the ways in which management and teams work together to win. “The great strength of baseball teams,” Peter Drucker once wrote, “is you can concentrate” on individual tasks in a very focused way. This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

•    There’s no “I” in team but there is a “C”
•    How to coach a comeback
•    What else can managers learn from baseball?
•    Why records aren’t only good for the record-breaker

To read the full Drucker Apps, click here.

Drucker Apps is distributed twice a month and available via download from our website or via our RSS feed.

The $100,000 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation

The application period for the 2009 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation is now closed.

The Drucker Institute would like to thank every organization that applied. If you submitted an application, you will get an update from the Institute in September on its status. If you have any questions regarding your application in the meantime, please email award@druckerinstitute.com.

About the Drucker Nonprofit Innovation Award

The first-place prize is $100,000. That’s up from the $35,000 awarded in previous years, thanks to a generous grant from The Coca-Cola Foundation. The second-place award is $7,500, and the third-place prize is $5,000.

“Peter told us that the purpose of this prize is to find the innovators, whether small or large; to celebrate their example; and to inspire others,” said Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute. “This is especially important this year as our flagging economy has left many nonprofits struggling financially while the needs that they’re trying to meet are greater than ever.”

The winners of this year’s competition will be recognized at a gala dinner in Los Angeles later this fall, preceded by a one-day conference on innovation in the social sector. Both of these events have been designated official activities of the Drucker Centennial, which marks Peter Drucker’s 100^th birthday. (For more on the Centennial, please visit www.drucker100.com.)

Widely considered the father of modern management, Drucker not only consulted for major corporations, he advised the Girl Scouts of the USA, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army and countless other social-sector organizations. He called the nonprofit “America's most distinctive institution.”

The 2008 first-place Drucker Award winner, selected from more than 500 nonprofits that applied for the award, was KickStart International, a San Francisco-based organization. KickStart fights poverty in Africa by creating and selling simple tools that help poor entrepreneurs increase their income. Among its innovations is the MoneyMaker irrigation pump, which allows small-scale growers to produce high-value crops year-round and make the transition from subsistence farming to commercial agriculture.

About The Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company is the world’s largest beverage company, refreshing consumers with more than 450 sparkling and still brands. Along with Coca-Cola®, recognized as the world’s most valuable brand, the Company’s portfolio includes 12 other billion dollar brands, including Diet Coke®, Fanta®, Sprite®, Coca-Cola Zero®, vitaminwater, Powerade®, Minute Maid®, and Georgia Coffee®. Globally, we are the No. 1 provider of sparkling beverages, juices and juice drinks and ready-to-drink teas and coffees. Through the world’s largest beverage distribution system, consumers in more than 200 countries enjoy the Company’s beverages at a rate of 1.5 billion servings a day. With an enduring commitment to building sustainable communities, our Company is focused on initiatives that protect the environment, conserve resources and enhance the economic development of the communities where we operate. For more information about our Company, please visit our website at www.thecoca-colacompany.com.

4/09, rev 7/09

Come hear Drucker Executive-in-Residence Rajiv Dutta "in conversation" with Scott Cook on April 27

The Drucker Institute and the Drucker School

invite you to the third in a series of Drucker Centennial conversations with business leaders on managing in the 21st Century.

"Harnessing the Power of Many"

How does a company reach beyond its traditional boundaries to tap into the thoughts and ideas of those on the outside of the organization?

Scott Cook

co-founder and chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board, Intuit

in conversation with

Rajiv Dutta

current Drucker Executive-in-Residence and

former President, eBay Marketplaces, PayPal and Skype

Monday, April 27, 2009

7:00 pm

Balch Auditorium at Scripps College

1030 Columbia Avenue

Claremont, California 91711

Hors d'oeuvres and sangria will be served at 6:00 pm

Admission is free, though seating is limited and reservations are strongly encouraged.

Please RSVP to series@druckerinstitute.com.

The Drucker Institute and Optimiza Academy announce "Essential Drucker for the 21st Century" seminar in Amman, Jordan on April 23

The Drucker Institute has announced a partnership with Optimiza Academy—a subsidiary of Al-Faris National Investments (ASE:CEBC)—to conduct the “Essential Drucker for the 21st Century” seminar on April 23, 2009, in Amman, Jordan. The program is designed for senior corporate, NGO and government executives in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

The seminar, which will be held at the Grand Hyatt Amman Hotel, will be presented by Drucker Institute Director Rick Wartzman and Assistant Director Zachary First. It will cover Drucker's essential insights on knowledge work, strategy and responsibility in the 21st century organization, with a special focus on managing through the current global financial crisis.

"Peter Drucker's timeless insights, on managing through difficult times like these, are of great interest to leaders all over the world," Wartzman said. "We are pleased and honored to be sharing some of Drucker's ideas and ideals with our friends in the Middle East and North Africa."

A mix of presentations, case studies and small break-out group discussions will explore five major themes: The Theory of the Business, Closing the Responsibility Gap, Knowledge Worker Productivity, Creating New Dimensions of Performance through Innovation and The Role of Values in Turbulent Times.

“We are so excited about this big event and the caliber of the participants who have already confirmed their attendance," said Mr. Nidal Bitar, Director of Optimiza Academy. "We are also proud that Optimiza Academy is the partner of choice for the Drucker Institute to launch its executive education activities in our region. Senior leaders and decision makers across the MENA region are eager to learn about, discuss and share the philosophy and influence of Peter Drucker, especially during the current global financial crisis.”

For more information about the “Essential Drucker for the 21st Century” seminar, including event registration, please visit www.DruckerInMENA.com.

4/09

'Drucker Apps' 3/25/09: Usable insights on business ethics from Peter F. Drucker

This installment of Drucker Apps springs off the recent guilty plea of Bernie Madoff, as well as the furor over AIG bonuses—events that, as Drucker noted, underscore how “management always deals with the nature of Man and (as all of us with any practical experience have learned), with Good and Evil as well."

This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

Is “business ethics” an oxymoron?
Why good times breed bad guys.
Has the market reached its limit?
Do you pass the mirror test?

To read the full Drucker Apps, click here.

Drucker Apps is distributed twice a month and available via download from our website or via our RSS feed.

3/09

Jody Greenstone Miller Joins the Drucker Institute’s Board of Advisors

The Drucker Institute announced that Jody Greenstone Miller, the founder and chief executive of Business Talent Group, has joined its Board of Advisors.

Miller has an extraordinary range of experience in business, government, media, law and the nonprofit world. Business Talent Group, her lastest venture, is a Los Angeles-based firm that provides consultants and interim executives through a model that grew, in part, out of Peter Drucker’s writings on the knowledge worker.

“I am honored to be part of an institution that’s working so creatively to deepen the impact of Peter Drucker’s indispensable ideas,” Miller said. “There’s never been a time when effective management and ethical leadership are in greater need.”

Before launching BTG, Miller was a venture partner with Maveron, the Seattle-based venture capital firm founded by Howard Schultz, from 2000 to 2007. Before that, she served as executive vice president and later acting president and COO of Americast, the digital television partnership between Disney and the regional telephone companies. Miller also served in the White House as special assistant to President Bill Clinton, where she was deputy to David Gergen, counselor to the President.

Earlier in her career, she helped launch a successful documentary division for Time-Life Television; established Lehman Brothers’ first investment banking office in South Carolina; was selected as a White House Fellow and served in the Treasury Department under President George H. W. Bush; and was legal counsel to South Carolina Governor Richard Riley. Miller began her career as a lawyer at Cravath, Swaine and Moore in New York.

She currently serves on the board of directors of TRW and Capella Education Co., a leading accredited online university. She is also a co-founder and board member of the National Campaign to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy. She has written (with her husband, Matt Miller) the November 2005 cover story for Fortune, “Get a Life!” about the relationship between companies and senior business talent, and an April 2004 New York Times Magazine article about the need for better healthcare solutions for independent consultants.

“Jody’s track record of success in all sectors—private, public and philanthropic—is positively Druckeresque,” said Bob Buford, chairman of the Drucker Institute, a campus-wide resource of Claremont Graduate University. “Her ability to help us understand a whole host of issues and to make connections to a wide range of people interested in our mission of stimulating effective management and ethical leadership will, no doubt, be invaluable.”

Miller joins a remarkable group of board members. In addition to Buford, a cable TV pioneer, author and chairman of the Buford Foundation, the board includes: John Bachmann, senior partner at the investment firm Edward Jones; John Byrne, executive editor of BusinessWeek; attorney Cecily Drucker, daughter of the late Peter Drucker; author, inventor and entrepreneur Doris Drucker, wife of the late Peter Drucker; Allison Graff-Weisner, executive director of City Year Los Angeles; Nobuhiro Iijima, president of Tokyo-based Yamazaki Baking Co.; Ira Jackson, dean of CGU’s Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management; Seung-Woo Nam, chairman and CEO of Pulmuone Holdings Co. of South Korea; C. William Pollard, former chairman and CEO of ServiceMaster Co. and author; Minglo Shao, founder of Bright China Holding Ltd. and head of the Peter F. Drucker Academy, a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to teaching Drucker’s principles and practices in China; and Craig Wynett, general manager of Future Growth Initiatives at Procter & Gamble Co.

“We are thrilled to be adding Jody to our board,” said Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute. “She is among the brightest, most accomplished people I know—and her company has been built by applying Peter Drucker’s thinking on some of the fundamental changes roiling the 21^st-century workplace. It couldn’t be a better fit.”

3/09

The Drucker Institute releases March/April 2009 newsletter

The March/April 2009 issue of The Window, the Drucker Institute's newsletter, looks at information overload and the impetus behind Drucker Apps—our recent new media initiative—previews a major Drucker conference in Vienna this fall, and reveals the poem that the CEO of a major corporation went out of his way to send to Drucker in a 1995 letter.

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3/09

'Drucker Apps' 3/11/09: Usable insights on an industry in turmoil from Peter F. Drucker

This installment of Drucker Apps springs off the fact that the owners of the Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and Minneapolis Star-Tribune have filed for bankruptcy, and Denver's Rocky Mountain News has gone under. Taken together, they are a case study in what happens when, as Drucker put it, "The assumptions on which the company has been built and is being run no longer fit reality."

This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

Why do companies stop performing?
Why organizations musn't cling to the past
Will newspaper owners put the community before profits?
An ink-stained wretch's lesson in self-management

To read the full Drucker Apps, click here.

Drucker Apps is distributed twice a month and available via download from our website or via our RSS feed.

3/09

Come hear Drucker Executive-in-Residence Rajiv Dutta "in conversation" with Jack Bergstrand on March 11

The Drucker Institute and the Drucker School

invite you to the second in a series of Drucker Centennial conversations with business leaders on managing in the 21st Century.

"Turning a Thousand Points of Chaos into a Single Beam of Light"

How do you take a mobile, diverse, knowledge-driven workforce and align its thinking?

Jack Bergstrand

former top Coca-Cola executive and author of the new book Reinvent Your Enterprise

in conversation with

Rajiv Dutta

current Drucker Executive-in-Residence and

former President, eBay Marketplaces, PayPal and Skype

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

7:00 pm

Balch Auditorium at Scripps College

1030 Columbia Avenue

Claremont, California 91711

Hors d'oeuvres and sangria will be served at 6:00 pm

Admission is free, though seating is limited and reservations are strongly encouraged.

Please RSVP to series@druckerinstitute.com.

'Drucker Apps' Feb. 26, 2009: Usable insights on public education from Peter F. Drucker

The latest installment of Drucker Apps was inspired by the 33 states that have proposed cutting or already have cut funding for K-12 education—a dangerous trend symbolized by teachers in Florida who've taken to wearing Band-Aids.

This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

How effective education goes hand-in-hand with good management
Education as the key to bridging social inequality
Teaching must evolve
Is there no such thing as a bad student?

To read the full Drucker Apps, click here.

Drucker Apps is distributed twice a month and available via download from our website or via our RSS feed.

2/09

Peter Drucker inducted into the Outsourcing Hall of Fame

The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals has inducted Peter Drucker into its Outsourcing Hall of Fame, one of the industry’s highest professional recognitions for contributions to business and society.

Also inducted, along with Drucker, were Lynn Blodgett, president and chief executive officer of Affiliated Computer Services, and Marty Chuck, founder and managing partner of the CXOs LLC and former CIO of Electronic Arts Inc. and Agilent Technologies. Presentations were made at the IAOP’s annual conference in Carlsbad, Calif.

“These individuals represent the highest quality of outsourcing professionals globally,” said IAOP Chairman Michael Corbett. “Practicing outsourcing with social responsibility is one of the top and growing interest areas, and these Hall of Fame inductees are at the forefront of advancing practices that are a model for all companies.”

In accepting this honor, Drucker Institute Director Rick Wartzman noted that Peter Drucker viewed outsourcing “not merely as a means to cut costs, but as an important social innovation—especially for service workers who are hungering to be challenged in their jobs and to find pathways for advancement.”

Wartzman then quoted from “Sell the Mailroom,” Drucker’s 1989 Wall Street Journal article on the topic: “If clerical, maintenance and support work is done by an outside independent contractor it can offer opportunities, respect and visibility. As employees of a college, managers of student dining will never be anything but subordinates. In an independent catering company they can rise to be vice president in charge of feeding the students in a dozen schools; they might even become CEOs of their firms.”

But Wartzman noted that, in the very same article, Drucker pointed out that “there is a price for unbundling” businesses in this way.

“If large numbers of people cease to be employees of the organization for which they actually work,” Drucker warned, “there are bound to be substantial social repercussions.”

Wartzman concluded: “This, then, is the delicate balancing act that Peter would have asked all of you to keep in mind: to use outsourcing as a powerful tool—to help spur innovation, to better focus your enterprises, to improve quality, to enhance productivity, to maximize effectiveness—but to do so with the sober understanding that every decision you make touches the lives of those who work for you and work with you, their families and their communities.

“Or, to quote the title of another of Peter’s pieces on this subject—this one from a 2002 essay in Harvard Business Review: “They’re Not Employees, They’re People.”

About IAOP

The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals is the global, standard-setting organization and advocate for the outsourcing profession. With 40,000 customer, advisor and provider members worldwide, IAOP helps companies increase their outsourcing success rate, improve their outsourcing ROI, and expand the opportunities for outsourcing across their businesses. For more, please visit www.outsourcingprofessional.org.

Drucker Centennial events calendar goes live; highlights include a major forum in Vienna

The Drucker Institute, along with the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, announced today that it has posted a Drucker Centennial events calendar at www.drucker100.com.

The Drucker Centennial will mark the 100th birthday of Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management; author of 39 books on organizational behavior, innovation, economy, and society; and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. This commemoration and celebration will be crowned by a week of special events at Claremont Graduate University in November 2009 and supplemented by other activities from Fall 2008-2010.

Among the activities being planned for the Centennial is a Drucker Global Forum in Vienna—Drucker’s birthplace—on his birthday: Nov. 19, 2009. This event is being organized by the Drucker Society of Austria, and it’s meant to showcase Drucker’s European roots while also pointing the way toward the future of management. For more, please click here.

Meanwhile, other Centennial events include a one-day summit in Claremont with corporate leaders on “The Drucker CEO of the 21st Century”; a Drucker Centennial Public Lecture Series, to be held in conjunction with the Library Foundation of Los Angeles; a series of onstage conversations between Rajiv Dutta and senior executives on “Managing in the 21st Century”; and a Centennial marketing symposium that will showcase Drucker’s pioneering contributions to the field.

Also planned as part of the Centennial is the launch of a major community-service project in the Inland Empire by CGU students; the premiere of the Drucker Institute documentary “Closing the Responsibility Gap”; a doubling around the world of the number of Drucker Societies—all-volunteer groups that use Drucker’s teachings to bring about positive change in their communities; and a major conference devoted to Drucker’s concept of “management as a liberal art.”

Many of the events listed on the calendar are free and open to the public. Additional events will be added throughout the year, as plans are solidified, so those interested are encouraged to check back periodically for updates.

2/09

Drucker’s ‘Five Most Important Questions’ named as the No. 1 book to ‘rekindle your business’

Peter Drucker’s The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization was picked by TheStreet.com as the top book to help “rekindle your business” in today’s tough times.

The book, put out by the Leader to Leader Institute, was among 10 selections that can help people “survive the financial tsunami.” (For more on Leader to Leader, please click here.)

“Although the bottom of the economic recession is nowhere in sight, there are opportunities,” Marc Kramer, an author and instructor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Global Consulting Practicum, wrote in TheStreet.com. “There are always opportunities if you can see them.” (For the full article, click here.)

Kramer praised Drucker’s work for “providing advice on how to focus your organization,” in part through a self-assessment process that pushes you to develop and implement a plan “that matches today’s reality.” Drucker’s five questions are: What is Our Mission? Who is Our Customer? What Does the Customer Value? What Are Our Results? What Is Our Plan?

To order the book, please click here.

2/09

'Drucker Apps' Feb. 11, 2009: Usable insights on executive pay and values from Peter F. Drucker

The latest installment of Drucker Apps was inspired by former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain’s $1,405 trashcan—and the fact that the average Fortune 500 chief executive makes 344 times the pay of a typical American worker.

This edition of Drucker Apps includes:

The ethics of bloated pay
So what should CEOs earn?
Obama’s $500K pay cap may be just the start
How much does money matter to you?

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Drucker Apps is distributed twice a month and available via download from our website or via our RSS feed.

2/09

Drucker Institute to sponsor Kravis Leadership Institute conference on social entrepreneurship

The Drucker Institute is proud to be co-sponsoring a Feb. 27 conference in Los Angeles on social entrepreneurship. The event is being organized by Claremont McKenna College’s Kravis Leadership Institute.

The title of this 19th annual Kravis-de Roulet conference, to be held at the Biltmore Hotel, is “Leading Social Change: Entrepreneurial Solutions, Cross-Sector Collaborations.”

Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute, will moderate a panel discussion on how the government can foster social entrepreneurship. And Ira Jackson, a Drucker Institute board member and dean of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, will moderate a discussion on the nexus between social challenges and business opportunities.

For more on the conference, please click here.

2/09

The Drucker Institute releases the first edition of 'Drucker Apps,' usable insights on work and life

The Drucker Institute has launched Drucker Apps, a downloadable collection of usable insights on work and life from the world’s foremost expert on organizations and effectiveness, Peter F. Drucker.

Available twice a month, Drucker Apps ties the timeless wisdom of one of the great thinkers and writers of the 20th century to the hottest issues of today, all delivered by the latest in 21st-century technology.

The first installment of Drucker Apps was inspired by the recent swearing-in of President Barack Obama, who touched on the need for effectiveness in the public sector in his inaugural address, saying, “The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works.”

This premiere edition of Drucker Apps includes:

Drucker’s “Six Rules for Presidents”
How to make decisions like Lincoln
Is charisma all it’s cracked up to be?
Can government be effective?

“No matter what kind of organization you work in, you're sure to find Peter Drucker’s insights into effective management, ethical leadership and social responsibility thought-provoking and useful as you go about your day-to-day tasks,” said Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute. “Given all the turmoil in the world today, it's clear we need Drucker more than ever. Drucker Apps is a great way to give new audiences a taste of his ideas and ideals in easily digestible bites.”

To read the full Drucker Apps, click here.

Drucker Apps is distributed twice a month and available via download from our website or via our RSS feed.

1/09

Rick Warren and Minglo Shao are added as Chairs of the Drucker Centennial

The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, along with the Drucker Institute, announced today that Rick Warren and Minglo Shao have been added as chairs of the Drucker Centennial.

The Drucker Centennial will mark the 100th birthday of Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management; author of 39 books on organizational behavior, innovation, economy, and society; and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. This commemoration and celebration will be crowned by a week of special events at Claremont Graduate University in November 2009 and supplemented by other activities from Fall 2008-2010.

“We are grateful for the active participation of Rick Warren and Minglo Shao in guiding the Drucker Centennial and helping us to celebrate Peter’s 100th birthday,” said Ira Jackson, dean of the Drucker School. “These men are two of the world’s most extraordinary leaders. In giving back to the institutions named for Peter Drucker, who had such a profound influence on their own lives, they are helping to ensure that Peter’s legacy and insights are made relevant for the next century as well, and that Peter’s message gains deep roots and global reach.”

Warren is the pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. It is widely considered one of America’s most influential churches, with about 20,000 people attending weekend services. Warren is the author of The Purpose Driven Life, the best-selling hardback book in American history, with more than 30 million copies sold worldwide. Next week, he will deliver the invocation at Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration.

Warren counted Peter Drucker as an important mentor. “His book The Effective Executive is a favorite I re-read every year,” Warren has said. “Long before words like ‘empowerment’” became popular, Peter was telling us that the secret of achieving results is to focus on your strengths, and the strengths of those you work with, rather than focusing on weaknesses.”

Shao, a member of the Drucker Institute Board of Advisors, is the founder and chairman of Bright China Holding Ltd., an investment group that operates in Los Angeles, Hong Kong and major cities around China. Under his leadership, Bright China Group has invested more than $500 million in China, providing employment to more than 10,000 laid-off workers in more than 20 cities.

Donations have also been made in Shannxi to build and operate schools, providing educational opportunities to more than 3,000 students from poverty-stricken farming families in the region.
Through Bright China Holding, Shao heads the Peter F. Drucker Academy, a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to researching and teaching Drucker’s management ideas in China. With a dozen locations across the country, thousands of middle and senior managers complete the Drucker Academy’s certificate program each year.

“We are extremely proud to have Rick Warren and Minglo Shao add their support to the Centennial,” said Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute, a campus-wide resource of CGU. “They certainly fit right in with an incredibly illustrious group of Centennial chairs.” They include:

John Bachmann, Senior Partner at Edward Jones, Chairman, the Drucker School Board of Visitors and CGU Trustee
Warren Bennis, University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, University of Southern California
Bob Buford, Author, Social Entrepreneur and Chairman of the Drucker Institute
John Byrne, Executive Editor, BusinessWeek
Jim Collins, Author of Good to Great and Built to Last
Doris Drucker, Author and Inventor
Rajiv Dutta, Drucker MBA '82 and Former President of eBay Marketplaces
David Gergen, Director of Harvard University's Center for Public Leadership, CNN Commentator and Former White House Advisor
Charles Handy, Author of The Age of Unreason and The Elephant and the Flea and Co-Founder of the London Business School
Frances Hesselbein, Chairman, Leader to Leader Institute, Former CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Masatoshi Ito, Founder and Honorary Chairman, the Ito-Yokado Group
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Harvard University
Alan Khazei, CEO, Be The Change Inc. and Co-founder of City Year
Wendy Kopp, Founder and CEO, Teach for America
A.G. Lafley, Chairman and CEO, Procter & Gamble Co.

Among the activities being planned for the Centennial are a one-day summit with corporate leaders on “The Drucker CEO of the 21st Century”; a Drucker Centennial Public Lecture Series, to be held in conjunction with the Library Foundation of Los Angeles; a series of onstage conversations between Rajiv Dutta and senior executives on “Managing in the 21st Century”; a Centennial marketing symposium that will showcase Drucker’s pioneering contributions to the field; and the production of a new text, “The Drucker Difference,” by Drucker School faculty.

Also planned as part of the Centennial is the launch of a major community-service project in the Inland Empire by CGU students; the premiere of the Drucker Institute documentary “Closing the Responsibility Gap”; a doubling around the world of the number of Drucker Societies-all-volunteer groups that use Drucker’s teachings to bring about positive change in their communities; and a major conference devoted to Drucker’s concept of “management as a liberal art.”

For more information, please visit www.drucker100.com.

Come hear Drucker Executive-in-Residence Rajiv Dutta "in conversation" with Meg Whitman on Feb. 18

invite you to the first in a series of Drucker Centennial conversations with business leaders on managing in the 21st Century.
“The Character of the Company” How businesses balance profit with social responsibility
	Meg Whitman former President and CEO of eBay
	in conversation with
	Rajiv Dutta current Drucker Executive-in-Residence and former President, eBay Marketplaces, PayPal and Skype

Wednesday, February 18, 2009
6:30 pm
Balch Auditorium at Scripps College
1030 Columbia Avenue
Claremont, California 91711

Refreshments will be served

Admission is free, though seating is limited and reservations are strongly encouraged.
Please RSVP to series@druckerinstitute.com.

For more on the Drucker Centennial go to www.drucker100.com.

Drucker Institute director Rick Wartzman to interview Sir Ken Robinson about his new book, ‘The Element,’ on Jan. 29

Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute, will interview renowned creativity and innovation expert Sir Ken Robinson about his new book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, on Jan. 29 as part of a special ALOUD Business Forum at the Los Angeles Central Library.

The onstage conversation will explore what Sir Ken identifies as the point at which “natural talent meets personal passion.” Drawing on the stories of a wide range of people—from musician Paul McCartney to physicist Richard Feynman—Sir Ken offers up lessons on the diversity of intelligence and the power of imagination and creativity that can be applied to transforming business and education in the 21^st century.

The ALOUD Business Forum kicks off with breakfast at 7:30 a.m. The formal program begins at 8:15 at the Central Library’s Mark Taper Forum. For more information, click here.

The conversation with Sir Ken has also been designated a Drucker Centennial event—one of a number of activities commemorating Peter Drucker’s 100th birthday. For more on the Drucker Centennial, click here.

The Business Forum will conclude with another conversation meant to help mark the Drucker Centennial: On April 1, 2009, Drucker School professor Vijay Sathe will discuss the future of India with Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman of Infosys.

1/09

The Drucker Institute releases January/February 2009 newsletter

The January/February 2009 issue of The Window, the Drucker Institute's newsletter, looks ahead to the Drucker Centennial -- a major new initiative -- introduces a new Drucker Society program and a new Drucker Society leader, and reveals what Drucker called "by far the most effective organization in the U.S."

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Drucker Institute academic director delivers keynote address at leadership forum in China

Joe Maciariello, the Drucker Institute’s academic director, delivered a major speech in China to business and social-sector executives, warning that “charisma may be the undoing of leaders.”

Maciariello spoke on Nov. 1 as part of the 3rd Drucker Forum, put on by the Peter F. Drucker Academy, a nonprofit educational organization.

The event, titled “Effective Leadership in the 21st Century,” was held in the People’s Congress Hall in Hangzhou. Nearly 1,000 executives attended the two-day forum, and 30 leaders from the largest business enterprises and nonprofit organizations in China exchanged their ideas on the stage. In all, nine speeches and five panel discussions were delivered. More than 3,000 Drucker books were sold on the spot.

In addition to sharing and amplifying Peter Drucker’s insights on charisma, Maciariello also spoke about mission, trust, responsibility and succession planning.

Leadership involves “lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, and the building of a person’s personality beyond its normal limitations,” Maciariello told the forum audience, as he quoted Drucker.

For a look at Maciariello’s remarks, click here. For photographs from the 3rd Drucker Forum, see below.

Drucker Institute director Rick Wartzman to interview journalist Michael Kinsley on ‘Creative Capitalism’ on Dec. 8

Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute, will interview journalist Michael Kinsley about the new book he has edited, Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Other Economic Leaders, in Claremont on Dec. 8.

The book grew out of an online dialogue, which was organized to respond to Bill Gates’s call at the 2008 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, for a “creative capitalism” in which big corporations would integrate doing good into their way of doing business. In the book, more than 40 contributors discuss and debate the merits of Gates’s idea. Among them: Warren Buffett; former Treasury Secretary and Obama economic adviser Lawrence Summers, Nobel laureates Gary Becker and Edmund Phelps, and Judge Richard Posner.

“Gates’s idea—that businesses should serve the greater good and must focus on more than just the bottom line or shareholder interests—certainly is in step with Peter Drucker’s deeply held beliefs,” said Wartzman, who used to be a colleague of Kinsley’s at the Los Angeles Times. “But not everyone agrees with this approach, and I look forward to teasing out with Mike both the pros and cons and the complexities of the concept.”

Kinsley is a regular contributor to Time magazine. He was formerly the editor of The New Republic, co-host of CNN’s “Crossfire,” founding editor of the online magazine Slate, and editorial page editor of the L.A. Times.

The conversation has been designated a Drucker Centennial event-one of a number of activities marking Peter Drucker’s 100th birthday. (For more on the Drucker Centennial, click here.)

The Kinsley event will be held at 7 p.m. in Room B16 at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, 1021 N. Dartmouth Ave., Claremont, CA, 91711. Refreshments will be served at 6:45 p.m. Books will be available for purchase, and Kinsley will sign copies after the talk.

The event is free and open to the public, but RSVP is required to jinny.ki@cgu.edu.

Pulmuone’s Seung-Woo Nam Joins the Drucker Institute’s Board of Advisors

The Drucker Institute announced that Seung-Woo Nam, the Chairman and CEO of Pulmuone Holdings Co., Ltd. of South Korea, has joined its Board of Advisors.

“We are thrilled to add a leader of Mr. Nam’s caliber to our board,” said Bob Buford, chairman of the Drucker Institute, a campus-wide resource of Claremont Graduate University. “Not only does he have a marvelous track record in the corporate sector, but he has been heavily involved with helping to create a healthier society in South Korea and around the world. In all of this, he is carrying forward Peter Drucker’s ideas and ideals.”

Nam joins an extraordinary group of board members. In addition to Buford, a cable TV pioneer, author and chairman of the Buford Foundation, they include: John Bachmann, senior partner at the investment firm Edward Jones; John Byrne, executive editor of BusinessWeek; attorney Cecily Drucker, daughter of the late Peter Drucker; author, inventor and entrepreneur Doris Drucker, wife of the late Peter Drucker; Allison Graff-Weisner, executive director of City Year Los Angeles; Nobuhiro Iijima, president of Tokyo-based Yamazaki Baking Co.; Ira Jackson, dean of CGU’s Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management; CGU President Robert Klitgaard; C. William Pollard, former chairman and CEO of ServiceMaster Co. and author; Minglo Shao, founder of Bright China Holding Ltd. and head of the Peter F. Drucker Academy, a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to teaching Drucker’s principles and practices in China; and Craig Wynett, general manager of Future Growth Initiatives at Procter & Gamble Co.

As CEO of Pulmuone, Nam leads one of South Korea’s top food product manufacturers. The company, which also has operations in the U.S. and China, was among the first to bring to market soy-based products that are certified as free of genetically modified organisms. In addition, Pulmuone has pioneered new flavors and packaging that are boosting demand for this low-cost, high-nutrient food.

Nam’s leadership extends well beyond his own company. As the Chairman of the UN Global Compact in South Korea, he heads a group of more than 100 corporate, government and NGO leaders in his country. They are helping organizations across all three sectors fulfill what Peter Drucker called “management’s self interest in a healthy society” by aligning operations and strategies with 10 principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment, and anti-corruption.

Nam is also a co-president of the Drucker Society of Korea, where he helps convene regular meetings of South Korean corporate executives to read and apply Drucker’s work in their own organizations and communities.

“This honor should be a tribute to those Korean people who have been working hard to practice Drucker’s principles and to become positive contributors to the functioning society,” Nam said.

Nam replaces K.H. Moon, former chief executive of Yuhan-Kimberly Ltd., who is now a member of the national parliament in South Korea.

“We are extremely grateful to Mr. Moon for his service,” said Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute. “We are sorry to lose his important contributions as a member of our board. But we applaud his increased commitment to serving his country, and his ongoing efforts to bring Peter Drucker’s vision of lifelong learning to South Korea. Meanwhile, we’re delighted to be working with Mr. Nam as we look to preserve—and build on—the Drucker legacy at a time when the world needs his insights about effective management, ethical leadership and social responsibility more than ever.”

The Drucker Institute provides a day of information and inspiration for nonprofits

The Drucker Institute hosted two events on Oct. 28, which provided both information and inspiration for nonprofit leaders and others interested in the healthy functioning of the social sector.

The Institute’s daytime conference, “When the Bottom Line is Changed Lives: How Do We Know Whether Nonprofit Organizations are Effective?” attracted more than 75 people to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. They heard from a variety of leading experts on nonprofit effectiveness, including David Renz, director of the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership at the University of Missouri-Kansas City; Don Howard, a partner at The Bridgespan Group; and Irv Katz, president and CEO of the National Human Services Assembly.

To see material from their presentations, as well as welcoming remarks from Drucker Institute Director Rick Wartzman, contact the Drucker Institute.

A highlight of the conference was a lunchtime keynote speech by Karen Baker, California’s Secretary of Service and Volunteering.

Later that evening, the Institute hosted a dinner at the Music Center in downtown L.A. to honor this year’s winners of the Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation. (For more on this year’s winners—KickStart International, Hidden Harvest, and the Calvert Foundation—click here. And to see a documentary short on how KickStart lifts subsistence farmers in Africa out of poverty, click here.)

The award celebration was kicked off by a group from City Year—young people who dedicate a year of their lives to community service—who showed the suit-and-tie-clad audience how to get “fired up.”

A special moment in the program came as one great social-sector leader set the stage for another: Presidential Medal of Freedom winner Frances Hesselbein, chairman of the Leader to Leader Institute and former CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA, introduced the evening’s keynote speaker—Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp. During her talk, Kopp noted that Peter Drucker’s “principles have, in fact, proven to be the key . . . to our growth and impact.”

To see a video of their remarks, click here. For photos from the award dinner, contact the Drucker Institute.

Institute board member Ira Jackson to interview Eli Broad, economics editor for the Economist on “philanthropcapitalism” on Nov. 20

Ira Jackson, dean of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and a board member of the Drucker Institute, will interview philanthropist Eli Broad and author and Economist editor Matthew Bishop on Nov. 20 as part a special ALOUD Business Forum at the Los Angeles Central Library.

The onstage conversation will explore how “social investors” such as Broad-the billionaire who, after building two Fortune 500 companies, has devoted his attention to advancing the public good in education, science and the arts-are using their business acumen to reshape the notion of charitable giving. Bishop is the co-author, with Michael Green, of Philanthrocapitalism, a new book that explores this topic.

The session with Broad and Bishop is one of just eight in the series. On Jan. 15, 2009, Jackson is set to be in conversation with pollster John Zogby on “the transformation of the American Dream.” And on April 1, 2009, Drucker School professor Vijay Sathe will discuss the future of India with Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman of Infosys. The latter conversation has been designated a Drucker Centennial event-one of a number of activities marking Peter Drucker’s 100th birthday. (For more on the Drucker Centennial, click here.)

The Business Forum is a new program, which kicks off with breakfast at 7:30 a.m. The formal program begins at 8:15 at the Central Library’s Mark Taper Forum. For more information and to order a subscription, click here.

The Drucker Institute releases November/December 2008 newsletter

The November/December 2008 issue of The Window, the Drucker Institute's newsletter, recaps two inspiring keynote addresses from recent Drucker Institute events -- by Wendy Kopp, founder and CEO of Teach for America, and Karen Baker, California's Secretary of Service and Volunteering -- offers a preview of a brand new Drucker Society program geared toward high school students, and reveals how Drucker helped a financial services giant weather the storm of the current global economic crisis.

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The Drucker School and Drucker Institute Announce the Drucker Centennial

Today, The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, along with The Drucker Institute, announced a commemoration and celebration of the life of the late Peter F. Drucker. The Drucker Centennial will be crowned by a week of special events at Claremont Graduate University in November 2009 and supplemented by other activities from Fall 2008-2010.

The Centennial will mark the 100th birthday of Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management; author of 39 books on organizational behavior, innovation, economy, and society; and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

"The timing couldn't be more urgent," said Ira A. Jackson, Dean of the Drucker School. "With financial markets in crisis and political institutions around the globe in turmoil, Drucker's insights on effective management, ethical leadership, and social responsibility have never been more essential. This Centennial celebration will be a bridge between Drucker's timeless ideas and current transformative world events. Clearly, we need Drucker now more than ever."

As Drucker himself wrote, "None of our institutions exists by itself and is an end in itself. Every one is an organ of society and exists for the sake of society. Business is no exception. Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business; it can be justified only as being good for society."

To underscore the importance of the event, the Chairs for the Drucker Centennial include a Who's Who of leaders, thinkers and management luminaries:

John Bachmann, Senior Partner at Edward Jones, Chairman, the Drucker School Board of Visitors and CGU Trustee
Warren Bennis, University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, University of Southern California
Bob Buford, Author, Social Entrepreneur and Chairman of the Drucker Institute
John Byrne, Executive Editor, Business Week
Jim Collins, Author of Good to Great and Built to Last
Doris Drucker, Author and Inventor
Rajiv Dutta, Drucker MBA '82 and Former President of eBay Marketplaces
David Gergen, Director of Harvard University's Center for Public Leadership, CNN Commentator and Former White House Advisor
Charles Handy, Author of The Age of Unreason and The Elephant and the Flea and Co-Founder of the London Business School
Frances Hesselbein, Chairman, Leader to Leader Institute, Former CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Masatoshi Ito, Founder and Honorary Chairman, the Ito-Yokado Group
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Harvard University
Alan Khazei, CEO, Be The Change Inc. and Co-founder of City Year
Wendy Kopp, Founder and CEO, Teach for America
A.G. Lafley, Chairman and CEO, Procter & Gamble Co.

Born in Vienna on November 19, 1909, Drucker had a profound impact on how people around the world organize themselves in the realms of business, government, and civil society. Jack Welch, the former chairman of General Electric Co., has hailed Drucker as "the greatest management thinker of the last century." James O'Toole, Distinguished Professor at the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business, put it like this: "It is frustratingly difficult to cite a significant modern management concept that was not first articulated, if not invented, by Drucker."

Among the activities being planned for the Centennial are a one-day summit with corporate leaders on "The Drucker CEO of the 21st Century"; a Drucker Centennial Public Lecture Series, to be held in conjunction with the Library Foundation of Los Angeles; a series of onstage conversations between Rajiv Dutta and senior executives on "Managing in the 21st Century"; a Centennial marketing symposium that will showcase Drucker's pioneering contributions to the field; and the production of a new text, "The Drucker Difference," by Drucker School faculty.

Also planned as part of the Centennial is the launch of a major community-service project in the Inland Empire by CGU students; the premiere of the Drucker Institute documentary "Closing the Responsibility Gap"; a doubling around the world of the number of Drucker Societies--all-volunteer groups that use Drucker's teachings to bring about positive change in their communities; and a major conference devoted to Drucker's concept of "management as a liberal art."

Click here to view the keynote address by Daniel Yankelovich, who kicked off the Drucker Centennial at the Drucker School of Management's annual Drucker Day event.

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Rajiv Dutta Named Distinguished Executive-in-Residence at the Drucker School and Drucker Institute

CLAREMONT, Calif.—The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, along with the Drucker Institute, have announced that Rajiv Dutta, who recently stepped down as president of eBay Marketplaces, will serve as their first Distinguished Drucker Executive-in-Residence.

Dutta will use his time at the Drucker School and the Drucker Institute to interact with students and faculty, as well as to engage in a series of public conversations-to be held in Claremont with other leading executives-that explore critical management issues of the 21st Century. Among them: How does a company reach beyond its traditional boundaries to tap the best ideas of people on the outside? How do you take a mobile, diverse, knowledge-driven workforce and align its thinking around a common purpose?

Dutta earned his MBA from the Drucker School, which is part of Claremont Graduate University, in 1982. Before running eBay Marketplaces, he served as president of PayPal, president of Skype, and eBay’s chief financial officer. Prior to joining eBay, Dutta held positions at KLA-Tencor, a manufacturer of semiconductor equipment, and Bio-Rad Laboratories, a manufacturer and distributor of life science and diagnostic products. In addition to his Drucker School degree, he holds a B.A. in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University in India.

“Rajiv represents the best of business leadership: a strong set of values linked to an innovative approach to technology and customer service and a proven track record of financial performance,” said Ira Jackson, dean of the Drucker School. “He was the youngest student to ever graduate from the Drucker School and his spectacular career embodies the essence of what we call the Drucker Difference: purpose tied to profits, discipline linked with caring, and character matched with results. At PayPal, at Skype and at eBay, Rajiv has walked the talk and offered a great example of the kind of capitalism we so desperately need.”

Dutta’s appointment follows those of two Distinguished Drucker Scholars-in-Residence, who spent time at CGU in 2007 and 2008: Professor Jiro Nonaka, of UC Berkeley and Hitotsubashi University, and British author and social philosopher Charles Handy.

“As we seek to fulfill our mission-stimulating effective management and ethical leadership across all sectors of society-it’s essential that we not only advance the timeless work of Peter Drucker but that we also engage with Drucker-like thinkers and practitioners who are helping organizations tackle the biggest challenges of today and tomorrow,” said Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute, a campus-wide resource of CGU. “Rajiv absolutely fills the bill. Besides enjoying tremendous success in the corporate world, he is one of the most thoughtful and insightful executives I’ve ever had the pleasure to meet.”

WSJ, Economist Turn to Drucker In These Turbulent Times

The Wall Street Journal on Oct. 17 re-printed a 1992 column by Peter Drucker, “Planning for Uncertainty,” to help businesses cope with the current financial turmoil.

“Now with the imploding economy forcing companies to rip up their game plans, managers need sage advice more than ever,” the Journal explained. “So, we hunted down some classic wisdom from Drucker himself. . . . Some of the details are rooted in that time, but much of it is timeless.”

In the piece, Drucker advises companies, at a time of change and volatility, to make sure they’re playing to their strenghts. “Matching a company’s strengths to the changes that have already taken place produces, in effect, a plan of action,” he wrote. “It enables a business to turn the unexpected into advantage. Uncertainty ceases to be a threat and becomes an opportunity.”

To read the column in its entirety, click here.

Meanwhile, The Economist magazine on Oct. 17 ran its own story on Drucker, proclaiming him “the most enduring guru of them all.” The article pointed to Drucker’s uncanny prescience, quoting him in 1997 as saying: “In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the super-corporate chieftains who pay themselves millions.”

To read The Economist piece in its entirety, click here.

Drucker Institute director talks with NPR about his new book, ‘Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath’

Drucker Institute Director Rick Wartzman recently spoke with NPR's Lynn Neary on "Morning Edition" about his new book, Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Click here to listen to the interview.

Rick's book provides a window into the class politics of the 1930s--an issue of great interest to Peter Drucker, whose first major work, The End of Economic Man, explored the rise of fascism in Europe. The NPR feature is tied to Banned Books Week. The issue of censorship resonated, as well, for Drucker; some of his earliest writings were burned and banned by the Nazis.

Coca-Cola Pledges $500,000 to The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University

CLAREMONT, CA — The Coca-Cola Foundation has pledged $500,000 to Claremont Graduate University over the next four years to support the Drucker Institute’s Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation. Funding will be used to stimulate interest in developing innovative programs that respond to critical community issues, to create awareness about best-practice programs and to enhance the value of the award.

Specifically, the grant from The Coca-Cola Foundation will be used to increase the first-place Drucker Award from $35,000 to $100,000, beginning in 2009. The second place award of $7,500 and the third place prize of $5,000 will remain unchanged.

“This extraordinarily generous gift from The Coca-Cola Foundation underscores just how important it is for nonprofit organizations to innovate-something that Peter Drucker wrote and talked about long before there was such an intense focus on the social sector and social entrepreneurship,” said Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute, a campus-wide resource of Claremont Graduate University. “This gift allows us to better recognize the work being done by leading nonprofits, while also raising the awareness of Peter Drucker’s seminal contributions to the field. We couldn’t be more pleased to have Coca-Cola as our partner.”

Said Ingrid Saunders Jones, chair of The Coca-Cola Foundation, “Nonprofits play a vital role in creating sustainable communities, and we are pleased to assist the Drucker Institute in its efforts to identify and reward best practice programs in nonprofit innovation.”

The Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation, administered annually since 1991, is granted to a social sector organization that demonstrates Drucker’s definition of innovation-change that creates a new dimension of performance. This year’s winner, selected from more than 500 nonprofits that applied for the award, was recently announced. It is KickStart International, a San Francisco-based organization that fights poverty in Africa by creating and selling simple tools that help poor entrepreneurs increase their income. Among its innovations is the MoneyMaker irrigation pump, which allows small-scale growers to produce high-value crops year-round and make the transition from subsistence farming to commercial agriculture.

This year’s runner-up is Hidden Harvest, based in Coachella, Calif. The program employs low-income farm workers to “rescue” produce that is left behind in fields and orchards after harvest. This fresh and nutritious food is, in turn, delivered free of charge to more than 60 local agencies that serve the poor and hungry. The third-place winner is the Bethesda, Md.-based Calvert Foundation. Its Community Investment Notes raise capital from individual and institutional investors and lend it to nonprofits and social entrepreneurs working around the world to alleviate poverty and promote sustainable development.

The winners from the 2008 competition will be honored at an Oct. 28 dinner in Los Angeles, featuring Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach for America, as the keynote speaker. The awards dinner will be preceded by a daylong conference on nonprofit effectiveness. The keynote speaker at the daytime event will be Karen Baker, California’s Secretary of Service and Volunteering-the first such cabinet-level position in the nation.

Widely considered the father of modern management, Drucker not only consulted for major corporations, he advised the Girl Scouts, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army and countless other social-sector organizations. He called the nonprofit sector “America’s most distinctive institution.”

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Winners Chosen for the Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation

CLAREMONT, Calif — The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University has announced this year’s winners of the Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation.

KickStart International, a San Francisco-based organization that fights poverty in Africa by creating and selling simple tools that help poor entrepreneurs increase their income, was awarded the $35,000 first-place prize. Among its innovations is the MoneyMaker irrigation pump, which allows small-scale growers to produce high-value crops year-round and make the transition from subsistence farming to commercial agriculture.

This year’s runner-up (to receive $7,500) is Hidden Harvest, based in Coachella, Calif. The program employs low-income farm workers to “rescue” produce that is left behind in fields and orchards after harvest. This fresh and nutritious food is, in turn, delivered free of charge to more than 60 local agencies that serve the poor and hungry. The third-place winner (to receive $5,000) is the Bethesda, Md.-based Calvert Foundation. Its Community Investment Notes raise capital from individual and institutional investors and lend it to nonprofits and social entrepreneurs working around the world to alleviate poverty and promote sustainable development.

“Peter Drucker was among the first to articulate that innovation-change that creates a new dimension of performance-is essential for all organizations to thrive,” said Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute. “This includes businesses, of course, but it’s also true for nonprofits. This year’s crop of winners illustrates precisely what Peter was talking about.”

The Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation has been given annually since 1991 to recognize existing programs that have made a real difference in the lives of the people they serve. Cash prizes are designed to celebrate, inspire and further the work of innovative social-sector organizations based in the United States.

KickStart officials noted how pleased they were to receive the Drucker Award. “We are extremely honored,” said co-founder and CEO Martin Fisher, Ph.D. “Nick Moon and I had two goal in mind when we founded KickStart: to get millions of people out of poverty and, in the process, change the way the world fights poverty. When we first started, the idea of using business models to solve social problems was considered crazy-if not complete heresy. Today social enterprise is the most vibrant sector in philanthropy. Peter Drucker's work was a real inspiration to us.”

KickStart International impressed the judges, in part, because of the extraordinary results it has demonstrated. More than 66,000 profitable enterprises have been created using its MoneyMaker pumps. Farmers utilizing the pumps see, on average, a 10-fold increase in farm income. KickStart estimates that its pumps have helped lift 330,000 people out of poverty. (For more, please visit www.kickstart.org.)

“Peter taught that for any nonprofit organization, the bottom line must be measured in changed lives,” Wartzman said. “KickStart’s bottom line is most impressive in this regard.”

The Drucker Institute will honor the winner and two runners-up on Oct. 28 in Los Angeles at a gala dinner. Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach for America, will be the keynote speaker. The dinner will be preceded by an all-day conference: “When the Bottom Line is Changed Lives: How Do We Know Whether Nonprofit Organizations are Effective?”

To attend the dinner or the conference, which will feature leading experts in the field and a keynote address by Karen Baker, California’s Secretary of Service and Volunteering, you must register atwww.DRUCKERinstitute.com/store.

The Drucker Institute releases September/October 2008 newsletter

The September/October 2008 issue of The Window, the Drucker Institute’s newsletter, explores management as a liberal art, reports on the cutting edge of innovation and social responsibility in Korea, and answers the question, "What would Peter Drucker say to a whiny ninth grader who doesn't like math?"

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Drucker Institute director to discuss his new book, ‘Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath’

Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute, will discuss his new book, Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, on Sept. 4 at ALOUD, the public lecture series at the Los Angeles Central Library.

Joining Wartzman for this onstage conversation will be William Deverell, professor of history at USC and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.

Wartzman’s book has been called “revelatory and stunning” by Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian Studs Terkel, while Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Anthony Lewis has praised it for providing “a dramatic glimpse of a dark American past.” Publishers Weekly, meanwhile, has said that “Wartzman artfully weaves the personal and the political in a book that readers will find engaging on more than one level.”

“Although I began to write this book several years ago, before I joined the Drucker Institute, its main theme is certainly one that would have interested Peter Drucker: the class politics of the 1930s,” Wartzman said. “Indeed, this was a subject that he himself explored in his first major work, The End of Economic Man.”

The event is set for 7 p.m. Although it is free and open to the public, reservations are strongly encouraged. For more information, click here.

Procter & Gamble CEO says American society ‘is all the better’ for Drucker’s teachings, touts the work of the Drucker Institute

A.G. Lafley, the chairman and chief executive officer of Procter & Gamble Co., called Peter Drucker’s teachings “very much alive” and touted the work of the Drucker Institute in a letter to the editor published in The Wall Street Journal.

Lafley’s July 10 letter was written in response to a June 18 article in the Journal that focused on Drucker’s popularity in Asia. To read the original story, click here.

The full text of Lafley’s letter follows:

Guru Drucker Still Smiles on U.S.

It is good news that China’s 14 Drucker academies are so proud of their allegiance to the late Peter F. Drucker’s profound concept of building organizations dedicated to serving their customers and doing so with integrity (“China Embraces Old-School Business Guru,” Business, June 18). This knowledge is having a very positive impact on Chinese business society. I must disagree, however, with the suggestion that America’s faith in Peter Drucker’s wisdom is a bit faded. It is actually very good news that his teachings have become so fundamental to the practice of management in America that they now may seem invisible, yet they are very much alive.

In fact, the Drucker Institute and Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University are working to make Peter Drucker’s writings and teachings more accessible. There are newly formed Drucker Societies in several major American cities, not to mention in Europe and Latin America. In addition, countless U.S. business and nonprofit leaders, many of whom regularly gather for Drucker symposia, continue to actively apply his principles. As a new generation of leaders comes of age, these activities are all the more important.

To this end, Procter & Gamble is among a number of organizations that have made significant grants to the Drucker Institute. The Institute is not only keeping alive Peter's legacy, it is building on it, with a variety of programs to stimulate effective management and ethical leadership in China, the U.S. and across the globe. His wisdom is indeed alive in the U.S., as well as China and beyond. American society is all the better for it.

A.G. Lafley
Chief Executive Officer
Procter & Gamble Co.
Cincinnati

Social entrepreneur Bob Buford is appointed chairman of the Drucker Institute's Board of Advisors

The Drucker Institute announced that former cable TV executive, author and leading social entrepreneur Bob Buford has been appointed chairman of its Board of Advisors.

"Bob Buford is an extraordinary man--a wise, visionary and effective leader--who had the good fortune of being one of Peter Drucker's closest friends," said Rick Wartzman, the director of the Institute, which is a campus-wide resource of Claremont Graduate University. "The entire staff here is looking forward to working closely with Bob in his new role as we seek to carry out our mission: stimulating effective management and ethical leadership across all sectors of society."

CGU President Robert Klitgaard called Buford "an exemplar of carrying forward the Drucker legacy."

"Bob is fascinated by ideas, passionate about results, ready to learn anything anytime, and committed to sharing hard-earned insights with the next generation," Klitgaard said.

Added Ira Jackson, dean of CGU's Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management: "Bob Buford combines a passion for promoting Peter Drucker with a commitment to helping others move from success to significance. He has the courage to ask, as Peter did: 'What do you want to be remembered for?' All of us are grateful that part of Bob's own answer is to preserve and promote Peter Drucker's principles and practices, and to bring them to new audiences in new ways. As a social entrepreneur, Bob walks the talk, and his chairmanship of the Drucker Institute will help us to not only promote Drucker effectively, but also to practice and model Peter's principles as an organization."

Buford leads an extraordinary group of board members, who, besides Klitgaard and Jackson, include: John Bachmann, senior partner at the investment firm Edward Jones; John Byrne, the editor-in-chief ofBusinessWeek.com; attorney Cecily Drucker, daughter of the late Peter Drucker; author, inventor and entrepreneur Doris Drucker, wife of the late Peter Drucker; Allison Graff-Weisner, executive director of City Year Los Angeles; Nobuhiro Iijima, president of Tokyo-based Yamazaki Baking Co.; K.H. Moon, former chief executive of Yuhan-Kimberly Ltd. of South Korea; C. William Pollard, former chairman and CEO of ServiceMaster Co. and author; Minglo Shao, founder of Bright China Holding Ltd. and head of the Peter F. Drucker Academy, a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to teaching Drucker's principles and practices in China; and Craig Wynett, general manager of Future Growth Initiatives at Procter & Gamble Co.

"For the last 20 years of his life, it was my privilege to visit face to face several times a year with Peter Drucker," Buford said. "Peter was the man I most admired on this earth. To me, Peter was to the 20th Century what the French aristocrat, Alex De Tocqueville, was to the 19th Century. More than anyone else, Peter understood the times he lived in. There's only one like him every century or so."

Buford noted that before he met Drucker, he had become very familiar with his writings. "As a young man, the full weight of managing a family business had descended on my shoulders at age 32," Buford recalled. "My mother, the founding pioneer of a television broadcast company, had met an untimely death in a hotel fire in Dallas. My admiration for Peter Drucker rested entirely on his ideas. As a young and naive manager, I read everything I could get my hands on. Much of it seemed superficial and trendy to me. Here today, gone tomorrow ideas.

"Peter Drucker was something different, whole orders of magnitude different," Buford continued. "The minute I began reading Peter, I was home. Peter spoke to the idealistic and the ethical side of me, as well as the pragmatic, get-things-done side. What Peter said had authority. It had gravity. He was moral, but not moralistic. His approach was founded on universal ideas, but he wasn't ideological. Most of all, Peter understood the human side of enterprise. It seems like we've lost touch of that lately."

Buford is chairman of the board of The Buford Foundation/Leadership Network and, until the sale of his company in July 1999, served as chairman and CEO of Buford Television Inc., a family-owned business that started with a single ABC affiliate in Tyler, Texas, in the early 1950s and grew to a network of cable systems across the country. A classic entrepreneur, Buford has authored four books--Half Time, Game Plan, Stuck in Halftime and Finishing Well. Buford was the founder and initial chairman of the board of The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, now called the Leader to Leader Institute. He and his wife, Linda, make their home in Dallas. Buford's official website can be found at www.activeenergy.net.

"I am delighted that Bob Buford has agreed to be the chairman of the Drucker Institute's Board of Advisors," said Doris Drucker. "Peter and I first met Bob about 25 years ago when he was a member of the Young Presidents Association. He has been an endearing friend ever since. Intellectually and conceptually he and Peter thought along parallel lines. I am convinced that Bob will guide our board to make decisions which, in Peter's spirit, will lead to the establishment of a civil society in which both for-profit and non-profit organizations find their right place in our environment."

The Drucker Institute releases July/August 2008 newsletter

The July/August 2008 issue of The Window, the Drucker Institute’s newsletter, asks, "What's the right mission?" then tells you about our new one, reports on the recent Drucker Society Global Symposium, and reveals Peter Drucker's personal secret to effective time management.

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‘Connie Martinson Talks Books’ collection goes live, underscoring the idea that management is a liberal art

Claremont Graduate University has begun posting online the first author interviews from an extraordinary trove of more than 2,500 taped television interviews with prominent authors of fiction and nonfiction over the last 30 years.

The collection was donated by Connie Martinson, host of the cable TV program “Connie Martinson Talks Books,” which has been described by Los Angeles magazine as the city’s “premier television book show.”

Under the direction of the Drucker Institute and CGU’s Transdisciplinary Studies Program, the university plans to digitize the entire collection for easy online access by scholars and the general public. “The Martinson Collection is a fantastic way for us to highlight Peter Drucker’s idea that ‘management is a liberal art,’” said Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute. “Well-run organizations don’t just focus on finance, marketing and the like. Their values are shaped by the lessons of history and sociology, literature and philosophy, culture and religion.”

Among the first interviews to be posted online are Mary Gordon, Al Gordon, Joseph Heller, Barack Obama, Calvin Trillin, Gore Vidal and Elie Wiesel.

To access these interviews through the Claremont Colleges Digital Library, click here. For more on the Martinson Collection, click here.

Scores from around the world to gather in Claremont at the Drucker Society Global Symposium, June 11-13

More than 75 people from more than a dozen countries will gather in Claremont from June 11-13, 2008, to explore how they can continue to create a healthier society by advancing effective management and ethical leadership and carrying forward the legacy of Peter F. Drucker.

The second annual Drucker Society Global Symposium is expected to attract participants from business, government, the nonprofit arena and academia. Most are members of the Drucker Society Global Network, an association of grassroots groups dedicated to making a positive difference in their communities by drawing practical knowledge and inspiration from Peter Drucker’s teachings.

“Last year, at the time of the first symposium, three Drucker Societies had been officially formed, all of them in Asia,” said Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute. “Today, Drucker Societies in seven countries on four continents have been established. Clearly, our growth has been strong.”

The next step, Wartzman added, is not only to maintain-and even accelerate-the growth of the global network but to ensure its effectiveness. To that end, Drucker Society representatives at the symposium will engage in workshops led by PainePR, a Los Angeles firm with extensive experience in social marketing, and professional services giant Deloitte LLP, which will focus on assessing results.

The symposium will also feature remarks by Elissa Clapp, senior vice president of recruitment at Teach for America, who will discuss how to build a movement for positive change.

“Our aim,” Wartzman said, “is to foster a network of Drucker Societies that would make Peter Drucker proud: one focused on community, oriented to action and ever mindful that we must, as Drucker himself put it, ‘measure results in changed lives.’”

For more on the activities of Drucker Societies around the world, click here.

Drucker Institute director to lead free public talk on June 28 on 'Closing the Responsibility Gap: A Call to Action'

One in 10 people across the globe had to pay a bribe last year. In the U.S., more than 2 million homes have been or soon will be foreclosed upon. Meanwhile, each day, more than 24,000 people die from hunger or related causes-even though we have enough food to feed them. “Our problem," Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus has concluded, “is one of management, not lack of resources.”

A great distance has opened up between our obligations-to be effective managers and ethical leaders-and our actions. The Drucker Institute calls this the “Responsibility Gap,” and it’s asking people everywhere to join together to help close it.

To learn how, join Institute Director Rick Wartzman on Saturday, June 28, from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at the Drucker Institute, 1021 North Dartmouth Ave., Claremont, CA, 91711.

The event is free, but you are asked to RSVP by emailing druckeremba@gmail.com. Refreshments will be provided.

The talk is being hosted by the Drucker Society of Los Angeles. For more on the group and its activities, click here.

Drucker Academy affiliate in China assists in earthquake relief effort—and offers a way for you to help

The Bright China Foundation, a sister organization of the Beijing-based Peter F. Drucker Academy, is sending staff and tents and donating money to provide food and water for victims of the earthquake that struck western China on May 12 and has left many thousands dead.

Those who’d like to assist in the effort can send a check to the Bright China Foundation’s U.S. office at 28033 Ella Road, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, 90275-3213. Or money can be wired directly into Bright China’s Bank of America checking account-No. 12159-08933.

Bright China is registered in the U.S. as a 501(C)(3) organization, so donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed under the law. All funds collected will be wired back to Beijing, with 100 percent of the donations passed on to earthquake victims.

Bright China and the Peter F. Drucker Academy are headed by Minglo Shao, a businessman and philanthropist and a member of CGU’s Drucker Institute Board of Advisors.

Bright China has three staff in Chengdu, Sichuan. They are all reported to be safe, although they have faced hundreds of aftershocks in recent days. They are set to leave for Beijing after helping to make final arrangements to bring food, water and other materials into the area. Next week, when those resources are ready, several Bright China staff will fly back into Western China to monitor their proper use.

Bright China will make an initial investment of about $40,000, as well as ship up to 2,000 tents to affected areas. It has also organized a training session for NGO staff doing disaster relief in the area.

“This is the first attempt to make sure all channels and transportation are smooth, reliable and safe,” said Henry To, chief executive of the Bright China Foundation and CEO of the Peter F. Drucker Academy. “We will have second round of action and your participation is needed.”

The Drucker Institute releases May/June 2008 newsletter

The May/June 2008 issue of The Window, the Drucker Institute’s newsletter, features our new Responsibility Gap slide show, the Second Annual Drucker Society Global Symposium, and a handwritten note from Jack Welch about Drucker's legacy at General Electric.

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Drucker Institute, CGU Announce a Major Gift of Taped TV Interviews with Thousands of Prominent Authors

The Drucker Institute and Transdisciplinary Studies Program at Claremont Graduate University announced today that the university has received an extraordinary donation of more than 2,500 taped television interviews with prominent authors of fiction and nonfiction over the last 30 years. CGU plans to digitize the tapes for easy online access by scholars and the general public.

The gift was made by Connie Martinson, host of the cable TV program “Connie Martinson Talks Books,” which has been described by Los Angeles magazine as the city’s “premier television book show,” attracting “a profusion of important and well-known authors.” Among them: Maya Angelou, Ray Bradbury, Al Gore, Rosa Parks, Gore Vidal, Barack Obama, Studs Terkel, Joyce Carol Oates, and many, many, many more.

Under the direction of the Drucker Institute and Transdisciplinary Studies Program, the Connie Martinson Talks Books Collection will be digitized on an ongoing basis over the next several years, with all of Martinson’s interviews eventually made available online to anyone who would like to view them. The project will be handled through the Claremont Colleges Digital Library.

“This is a remarkable gift,” said Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute, a campus-wide resource of CGU. “There aren’t too many authors of note who have passed through L.A. in the last three decades whom Connie hasn’t interviewed, and interviewed well.”

Wendy Martin, associate provost and director of Transdisciplinary Studies, pointed out that the Martinson Collection offers a window into an unusually wide range of fields, including art, architecture, economics, education, history, literature, management, mathematics, philosophy, physics, politics, psychology, technology and more.

“This inherently transdisciplinary archive will provide material for research projects for generations of scholars and students,” Martin said.

A list of the first 100 tapes to be digitized-touchstones of literary achievement and popular culture alike-is attached. After these are completed, the rest of the collection will be put online, starting with the oldest tapes first.

“Digitizing these tapes will give students and others an opportunity to hear and watch these outstanding authors for themselves, whenever they want,” said Martinson. “Seeing authors up close like this provides a rich point of view to their work.”

Wartzman noted that the Drucker Institute-whose mission is to stimulate effective management and ethical leadership across society by advancing the ideas and ideals of the later Peter F. Drucker-has a keen interest in the Martinson acquisition because of Drucker’s notion that management is “a liberal art.”

“Drucker believed that a healthy society is run by organizations whose values are shaped by a wide range of disciplines: history, sociology, psychology, culture and religion,” Wartzman said. “In fact, Drucker once described management books as ‘dreadful trash’ and suggested that he derived much of his philosophy from novelists such as Austen, Balzac and others.”

Martinson herself recalled meeting Peter Drucker at the home of her longtime friend Jean Lipman-Blumen, the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Organizational Behavior at CGU’s Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management. “Claremont,” said Martinson, “is a beautiful setting for the tapes to call ‘home.’”

About Connie Martinson and ‘Connie Martinson Talks Books’

“Connie Martinson Talks Books” originates from L.A. CityView Channel 35 and can be seen on government-access cable outlets around the country and PBS in New York. Connie Martinson grew up in Boston and graduated from Wellesley College, where she was awarded the Davenport Prize for Speech and Literature. She worked as an editor for Writer magazine in Boston before moving to Los Angeles with her husband, film and television director Leslie Martinson. She became involved in public relations for the Coro Foundation and taught at UCLA and the University of Judaism before starting her television program in 1979 on Theta Cable (one of L.A.’s first cable outlets), parlaying her love of literature into a self-financed half-hour series on books. For more on “Connie Martinson Talks Books,” go to http://www.conniemartinson.com.

About Transdisciplinary Studies

The Transdisciplinary Studies Program at Claremont Graduate University, made possible by a generous endowment from George and Ronya Kozmetsky, is dedicated to providing an enriched research environment that enables connections to be made across disciplinary boundaries. The program is guided by the principle that knowledge has no boundaries and the most significant discoveries in the 21st century will increasingly depend on transdisciplinary research and scholarship. For more on Transdisciplinary Studies, go tohttp://www.cgu.edu/pages/3831.asp.

Peter Drucker’s Management: Revised Edition Released

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Peter F. Drucker’s groundbreaking book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practiceshas been revised and is set to be released on April 22. Claremont Graduate University Professor Joseph Maciariello, one of Drucker’s foremost students and protégés, completed the work.

“There are very few writers of whom one can say they invented an entire field of study,” said Maciariello, who teaches at CGU’s Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and also serves as academic director at the Drucker Institute. “Management as a concept literally did not exist until this groundbreaking work from Drucker. From Jim Collins to Jack Welch, every great theorist and practitioner of management has walked in Drucker’s footsteps. It really was a must-read text for every serious student of the field.”

The book, originally written in 1973, has now been updated to meet the needs of the modern-day manager. Almost every page contains new and reworked material that reflects the thirty years of Drucker’s thinking and writing that postdated the original edition. Business examples that have now gone out of date have been reworked; commentary to explore and explain Drucker’s thinking and its applications has been added throughout.

In the work, Drucker explored how managers can perform effectively. Examining management cases with a global eye, Drucker laid out the essentials of performance, and discussed the social and cultural environment in which managers and organizations operate. For three decades, managers from all arenas-public, private and nonprofit-have relied on the book to prepare themselves to meet the challenges of an ever-changing environment.

“The original Management was a landmark,” said Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute. “Joe Maciariello has done a tremendous service-for scholars and practitioners alike-by updating it so thoroughly and thoughtfully. It should find its place on the desk of every manager, no matter which sector he or she works in, much as thePhysicians’ Desk Reference can be found in every doctor’s office.”

BusinessWeek’s John Byrne and City Year’s Allison Graff-Weisner Join the Drucker Institute’s Board of Advisors

The Drucker Institute announced that John A. Byrne, the editor-in-chief and executive editor ofBusinessWeek.com, and Allison Graff-Weisner, the executive director of City Year Los Angeles, have joined its Board of Advisors.

“We’re thrilled to have brought aboard two people who can do so much to help us advance our mission: to stimulate effective management and ethical leadership across all of society by advancing the ideas and ideals of Peter Drucker,” said Rick Wartzman, the director of the Institute, which is a campus-wide resource of Claremont Graduate University. “John’s expertise in the online world and Allison’s intimate knowledge of how to engage young people promise to be invaluable for us as we move forward with our programming.”

Byrne and Graff-Weisner join an extraordinary group of board members, who include: John Bachmann, senior partner at the investment firm Edward Jones; Bob Buford, cable TV pioneer, author and chairman of the Buford Foundation; attorney Cecily Drucker, daughter of the late Peter Drucker; author, inventor and entrepreneur Doris Drucker, wife of the late Peter Drucker; Nobuhiro Iijima, president of Tokyo-based Yamazaki Baking Co.; Ira Jackson, dean of CGU’s Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management; CGU President Robert Klitgaard; K.H. Moon, former chief executive of Yuhan-Kimberly Ltd. of South Korea; C. William Pollard, former chairman and CEO of ServiceMaster Co. and author; Minglo Shao, founder of Bright China Holding Ltd. and head of the Peter F. Drucker Academy, a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to teaching Drucker’s principles and practices in China; and Craig Wynett, general manager of Future Growth Initiatives at Procter & Gamble Co.

“John and Allison bring energy, passion and credibility to everything they do,” said Ira Jackson. “Their presence on our board will assist us in reaching new audiences with innovative approaches. City Year is one of the nation’s best examples of social innovation that has had a transformative impact, and BusinessWeek continues to pioneer new approaches to understanding the world of commerce and creativity. I believe Peter would be proud and pleased of this evolving, diverse and talented global board, and in knowing that his legacy is in such good and able hands.”

After serving as executive editor of BusinessWeek magazine for two years, Byrne assumed the top editorial job at BusinessWeek’s fast-growing online operation. In his first year in this role in 2007, he led BusinessWeek.comto record levels of reader engagement and traffic, oversaw the redesign of the website, and launched extensive new areas of coverage, including on management. Previously, Byrne was editor-in-chief of Fast Company magazine. He is the author of eight books on business, leadership, and management. Among them isJack: Straight from the Gut, the highly anticipated collaboration with former General Electric Co. CEO Jack Welch, which debuted at the top of The New York Times bestseller list. Byrne holds a master’s in journalism from the University of Missouri and an undergraduate degree in English and political science from William Paterson College.

“As a longtime admirer of Peter’s work, I’m looking forward to helping the Institute spread his ideas and ideals to a new generation of global leaders,” said Byrne. “I think Peter would love the idea of using new technology to reach and touch people with his thinking in every corner of the world.”

Prior to moving to the West Coast to launch City Year Los Angeles in 2007, Graff-Weisner served as the national alumni director of the organization, which unites young people of all backgrounds for a year of full-time community service. In addition to her involvement with City Year, Graff-Weisner has worked at numerous community development and educational organizations in the U.S. and abroad. After running parent involvement programs at 20 schools in the Bronx with Learning Leaders, a group that engages 10,000 volunteers in New York City schools, she helped oversee its program department. She also taught and ran an after-school program in Washington, D.C., during her year of national service with Public Allies. She is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

“As the leader of City Year Los Angeles, I am dedicated to the belief that young people can change the world if they are given the skills and experiences to do so,” Graff- Weisner said. “I am thrilled to be part of the Drucker Institute, with its track record of innovative thinking and practice around developing ethical leaders and managers. I believe the Drucker Institute has tremendous potential to help develop the next generation of young leaders.”

Institute board member John Bachmann, in seeing Edward Jones honored for its customer service, points to lessons learned from Peter Drucker

Drucker Institute board member John Bachmann, a senior partner at Edward Jones, was quick to point to lessons learned from Peter Drucker after the financial-services firm was honored recently for its dedication to customer service.

In its March 3 edition, BusinessWeek named Edward Jones as the highest-ranking brokerage firm in its second annual roster of “Customer Service Champs.” Edward Jones was also the top-ranked brokerage last year.

The St. Louis-based firm ranked No. 8 among 50 national and international companies that, according to the magazine, “know how to keep front-line folks happy, make tech investments that help rather than hinder consumers and have leaders who make service a priority.”

“At its annual spring company meeting,” the magazine reported, “Edward Jones added a new honor in 2007 for branch administrators who excelled at customer service. Based on feedback from more than 330,000 households, the company’s top 300 performers met a few months later to swap strategies, which are now being taught in training.”

Bachmann, who during a 24-year stint as managing partner oversaw the growth of Edward Jones from 200 offices in 28 states to more than 9,000 offices throughout the U.S. and around the world, credited Peter Drucker with helping shape the firm’s strategy.

“The roots of Jones are planted firmly in the Drucker soil,” Bachmann said. “Drucker is the source, and Jones is a reflection of Peter’s principles in action.”

Drucker-who taught that “there is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer”-began advising Bachmann and Jones in 1981.

For more on the “Customer Service Champs” rankings from BusinessWeek, click here.

Journal of Management History issues a call for papers on ‘Honoring the life and works of Peter F. Drucker’

The Journal of Management History has issued a call for papers for its upcoming special issue, “Honoring the life and works of Peter F. Drucker.”

The publication’s goal “is to honor Drucker by seeking to better understand the value of his many contributions.”

Submissions are due by July 1. For more details, click here.

Institute board member Ira Jackson to interview Jeffrey Sachs on his new book, 'Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet'

Ira Jackson, dean of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and a board member of the Drucker Institute, will interview bestselling author Jeffrey D. Sachs on April 7 as part of the public lecture series ALOUD at the Los Angeles Central Library.

Their onstage conversation, which is set for 7 p.m., will focus on Sachs’s new book, Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet. Sachs’s work provides a vivid map of the road to sustainable and equitable global prosperity-and an augury of the global economic collapse that lies ahead if we don’t follow it. (For a sneak preview of some of the themes sure to be discussed that evening, please see Jackson’s recent column in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin by clicking here.)

Sachs, author of the bestseller The End of Poverty, is director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and special advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on the Millennium Development Goals, which include halving extreme poverty, halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education by 2015.

The library event is free, but reservations are strongly encouraged. For more information, click here.

Drucker Institute co-sponsors event honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., through drama, poetry and music

The Drucker Institute is co-sponsoring a special Claremont Graduate University event, “A Time to Create: A Celebration of MLK through Drama, Poetry and Music,” at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 4, at Garrison Theater.

The celebration, which is also co-sponsored by CGU’s Transdisciplinary Studies Program, is free and open to the general public.

The program-which is set to take place exactly 40 years after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee-will honor the late civil rights leader’s legacy through a series of performances by actors, poets and singers. The name of the event is derived from King’s observation that “we must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.”

“Being part of a program honoring Dr. King makes a lot of sense,” said Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute. “Like King, Drucker believed, above all, in the sanctity of freedom. He was a powerful voice against tyranny. And, in holding that management was really a ‘liberal art,’ he taught that all institutions of society need to be infused with strong humanistic values.”

The event will mark the centerpiece of a graduate course on King’s legacy, and it is meant to serve as a challenge to audience members to consider how King would view the world now. “We really want to challenge folks to think about Dr. King as peaceful revolutionary,” said Tyler Reeb, a CGU student who led a student-faculty initiative to assemble the April 4 program and the related graduate course. “He gave us a new vision for human rights around the globe while reminding us to also take care of what’s happening right in our own backyards.”

The program will include:

Passages Of Martin Luther King, a one-act play based on MLK’s letters and papers. This unusually intimate look at King’s life was written by Clayborne Carson, a preeminent King scholar from Stanford University who in 1985 was chosen by Coretta Scott King to edit and publish King’s papers. It stars Carson; Aldo Billingslea, chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at Santa Clara University; and gospel singer September Penn.
A jazz/poetry performance by Kamau Daaood, a spoken-word pioneer whose workspans spiritual expression, jazz and the avant-garde. Daaood has performed for more than three decades with the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra and has shared the stage with notables such as Gil Scott Heron and Amiri Baraka. Along with jazz great Billy Higgins, he is the co-founder of the World Stage in Leimert Park.
A gospel performance led by Contrella Patrick Henry, a Los Angeles-based performer and independent producer of theatrical productions for more than 15 years.

The Drucker Institute releases latest edition of The Window, its bimonthly newsletter

The July/August 2008 issue asks, "What's the right mission?" then tells you about our new one, reports on the recent Drucker Society Global Symposium, and reveals Peter Drucker's personal secret to effective time management.

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The May/June 2008 issue features our new Responsibility Gap slide show, the Second Annual Drucker Society Global Symposium, and a handwritten note from Jack Welch about Drucker's legacy at General Electric.

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The March/April 2008 issue of The Window, the Drucker Institute’s newsletter, features leading management thinker and social philosopher Charles Handy on escaping the inevitable decline in “the curve of life,” the new Drucker Society of New York City, and a 1943 Drucker article from the Archives on “the real Nazi offensive.”

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Social philosopher Charles Handy brings his insights to the Institute as a distinguished fellow-in-residence

The Drucker Institute and the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management have proudly welcomed Charles Handy as a Distinguished Drucker Scholar.

Handy, along with his wife, the renowned photographer Elizabeth, arrived at Claremont Graduate University on Jan. 24. During their five-week stay, they will be teaching, gathering regularly with students and faculty, and taking part in a number of broader community activities arranged by the Institute.

"Although Charles doesn't like the term 'guru' he in every respect lives up to the title," said Zach First, assistant director of the Drucker Institute. "He has written some of the most influential books of our time on organizational behavior, 'knowledge work' and society."

Handy is ranked as one of the 50 foremost management thinkers in the world, alongside Bill Gates, Al Gore and Steve Jobs. Millions of BBC radio listeners have savored his "Thoughts for Today" and he has been called by some "the British Peter Drucker." During his Southern California stay, Handy will contribute a weekly commentary to public radio's Marketplace.

Handy kicked off his time in Claremont with a public lecture that marked marking the U.S. launch of his autobiography, Myself and Other More Important Matters. In the book, Handy draws on his formative experiences to reflect on larger questions of identity, values, ethics, purpose, success and happiness. It is "not so much the story of my life," he says, "as the lessons that I have tried to learn from that life, often painful lessons as I came to terms with what I could not be, as well as what I could be.”

Following his lecture, Handy engaged in an onstage conversation with Drucker Institute Director Rick Wartzman.

Handy recalled a major turning point in his career when he stood in the back of a London lecture hall to listen to Peter Drucker. In good measure "inspired from listening to Peter all those years ago," Handy said, he himself became a fulltime writer and social philosopher.

Later in the day, Liz Handy unveiled an exhibition of her photography, which will remain on display during the duration of their stay. Versatile and imaginative, she has explored some unconventional approaches to her subjects such as "joiners," which combine different aspects of an individual’s life, and still lives of five symbolic objects that represent a person’s life.

Board member Doris Drucker is honored with a $1 million scholarship program for women leaders

Drucker Institute board member Doris Drucker has been honored with the launch of a new scholarship program in her name, the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University has announced.

The program, funded through a $1 million gift from successful Japanese entrepreneur Masatoshi Ito, will reward talented and exceptional women seeking to enter careers in management and leadership.

Ito’s lead gift will allow a first class of five Doris Drucker Fellows to be awarded for the entering class of MBA students for fall 2008, and will be set up as an endowment to continue to assist the future female leaders of the management world.

The gift also marks the start of a campaign to fundraise from other sources to expand the number of Doris Drucker Fellows in future years. The Doris Drucker Fellowship is intended to provide scholarship assistance for the most deserving women candidates who apply to the Drucker School. A special selection committee will evaluate prospective Doris Drucker Fellows and will make the final award decisions.

“Mr. Ito’s gracious, unsolicited offer to endow these fellowships in my name is deeply touching,” said Drucker. “I am grateful for his generosity and eager to greet at the Drucker School a new generation of women leaders that society so desperately needs.”

Doris Drucker was married to famed management scholar and social philosopher Peter Drucker for 68 years. A native of Germany, she met Peter while a graduate student in England, where they had both fled to avoid the rise of fascism. They married in 1937 in London, and raised four children. As a family, they moved to Claremont, California in 1971, when Peter became a professor at Claremont Graduate University, where the graduate school of management was named in his honor.

Doris received her master’s in physics from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1963 and a recipient of an honorary degree from CGU. She is the author of an autobiography, entitled, Invent Radium or I Will Pull Your Hair, and is a scientific inventor. Ten years ago, Doris started an enterprise, RSQ Co. to produce and market her patented invention of an electronic device which lets people see how loud they speak-useful for public speakers and performers and for speech pathologists training speech-disabled individuals to regain speech at normal levels.

At age 96, she leads a vigorous life, lecturing on a wide variety of topics, regularly playing tennis and lifting weights, climbing mountains, and traveling extensively around the world, especially with her children and grandchildren.

Institute director shares Peter Drucker’s lessons on information and knowledge in an ever-changing world

Drucker Institute director Rick Wartzman was featured as a keynote speaker at the 2008 Laserfiche Institute Conference, where he shared lessons from Peter Drucker on information and knowledge in an ever-changing world.

The conference, sponsored by Laserfiche, a leading document, records and information management company, was attended by nearly 1,000 people. Among them were Laserfiche employees, resellers and customers.

“Peter Drucker’s insight is invaluable to anyone in business management,” said Nien-Ling Wacker, president and CEO of Laserfiche. “His perspective is inspiring.”

Institute board members Doris Drucker and Ira Jackson to make trip to Japan

Drucker Institute board members Doris Drucker and Ira Jackson will visit Tokyo from Jan. 13-17, underscoring the reach of Peter F. Drucker’s work around the world.

During their time in Japan, Drucker and Jackson will be meeting with leaders of the Drucker Workshop, one of a fast-growing number of Drucker Society chapters across the globe.

In addition, Drucker and Jackson, dean of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, will be hosting a Drucker School gathering on Tuesday, Jan. 15, at the International House in Tokyo. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be served, and guests are welcome.

The Banker magazine names Drucker’s ‘The Practice of Management’ one of the top three business titles of all time

The Banker, a top industry magazine from Financial Times Ltd., has named Peter F. Drucker’s 1954 classic The Practice of Management as one of the three books that have had “the most impact on business and finance” throughout history.

Drucker’s work was listed third, just behind the No. 1 selection, John Kenneth Galbraith’s A Short History of Financial Euphoria, and the No. 2 pick, The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

The list from The Banker, published in its January 2008 issue, features a single quotation from each selection in the Top 10. Drucker’s is: “Our people are our most important asset.”

“Being on this list is a wonderful tribute,” said Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute. “And given Peter’s humanistic philosophy, the quote that was picked is just perfect. It goes right to the heart of what he was all about.”

Rounding out The Banker list are The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, The Borderless World by Kenichi Ohmae, Beyond Certainty by Charles Handy, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch, and The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli.

Wartzman pointed out that Charles Handy will be visiting the Drucker Institute and the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management as a scholar in residence in January and February.

1/08

Drucker to be translated into Arabic as part of a new project to enrich people’s lives through books

Three of Peter F. Drucker’s books on management will be translated into Arabic as part of Kalima, a project that aims to increase the number and choice of books available to readers in Arabic.

Launched in November 2007, Kalima (which means “word” in Arabic) has selected 100 titles to be translated initially. Among them is The Executive in Action, a one-volume collection from 1996 that includes three Drucker classics: Managing for Results, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and The Effective Executive.

Kalima is a nonprofit initiative funded by a grant from the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage. The project was undertaken to close a gap in information and perspectives that currently exists in the Arab world.

“Throughout Europe’s ‘Dark Ages’ and until the end of the first millennium,” Kalima representatives have noted, “Arab scholars and libraries led the world in translating, producing and preserving knowledge in science, medicine, philosophy and the arts. . . . Since then, however, few foreign works have found their way into Arabic. . . . To put the scale of the problem into perspective, Spain translates in one year the number of books that have been translated into Arabic in the last 1,000 years.”

The first 100 books selected by Kalima span many genres. Besides Drucker’s work, others include The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes, Middlemarch by George Eliot, The Aeneid by Virgil, Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright, The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein, and Margins of Philosophy by Jacques Derrida.

Fifty-two of the books are being translated from English, 10 from French, nine from German, seven from Latin, four from ancient Greek, three each from Old English and Greek, two each from Italian, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese, and one each from Czech, Danish, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish and Yiddish.

“It’s an honor to have Peter’s writing selected for a project like this,” said Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute. “Given his focus on the importance of knowledge in today’s global economy, it’s also most fitting.”

1/08

The Drucker Institute unveils its first newsletter

The Drucker Institute has published the inaugural issue of its newsletter, The Window.

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1/08

Institute director to interview Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus on ‘Creating a World Without Poverty’

Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute, will interview Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus on Jan. 15 as part of the public lecture series ALOUD at the Los Angeles Central Library.

Their onstage conversation, which is set for 7 p.m., will focus on Yunus’s experience offering micro-credit to lift people out of poverty, as well as his next “big idea,” which centers on a pioneering model for a new, more humane form of capitalism.

Yunus’s new book, which will be released in early January, is called Creating a World Without Poverty.

Yunus is the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank and the author of the bestselling Banker to the Poor. Yunus and Grameen Bank won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

The library event is free, but reservations are strongly encouraged. For more information, click here.

12/07

PBS documentary on the future of America features Institute board member Bill Pollard

Renewing American Culture, a documentary now airing on more than 150 PBS stations across the country, includes a segment on Drucker Institute board member Bill Pollard and his remarkable work at ServiceMaster Co.

Pollard, who until his retirement in 2001 led ServiceMaster as CEO for more than 25 years, enacted a new corporate code of conduct there that gave equal emphasis to making money and nurturing employees and the community.

His strategy, which was greatly influenced by Peter Drucker, led to significant prosperity for both ServiceMaster and the communities in which it does business. In less than 10 years, ServiceMaster’s profits climbed from $234 million to $6.4 billion while it was widely seen as a corporation that, in the words of Fortune magazine, took “extraordinary care . . . of employees.”

“America is at a crossroad,” say the film’s creators, “and many in the United States are questioning if American values are still relevant in today’s globalized, high-tech world.” Renewing American Culture and the companion book by the same name reveal the social and corporate pioneers who are generating a sense of community, as well as a resurgence of American virtues.

The film is produced and directed by 17-time Emmy Award winner Todd Gould, with executive producers Theodore Roosevelt Malloch and Scott T. Massey. For further information, Massey can be contacted at 317-695-3038.

12/07

New York conference spotlights a social sector enjoying tremendous growth and new opportunities

Top leaders from the nonprofit arena gathered in New York at a conference co-sponsored by the Drucker Institute and the Leader to Leader Institute to share their insights on the future of the sector.

Among the main themes that emerged at the daylong event, held Nov. 19, 2007, at the McGraw-Hill Auditorium, were that the social sector is exploding, in terms of dollars and talent, providing a great deal of hope for a troubled world.

“I can answer what’s going on with three words: growth, excellence and innovation,” Tom Tierney, the chairman of Bridgespan, a nonprofit organization that provides management consulting to foundations and other nonprofits, told an audience of more than 100. He described what was happening as “a kind of industrial revolution for the nonprofit sector.”

Bill Drayton, the founder of Ashoka, used a different analogy. What social entrepreneurs across the globe are unleashing, he said, is much “like the civil rights movement or the women’s movement.”

Other presenters, panelists and moderators included William Foote, president of Root Capital; Jim Fruchterman, president of Benetech; New America Foundation fellow Douglas McGray; Tom Vander Ark, president of the X PRIZE Foundation; Vanessa Kirsch, president of New Profit Inc.; Robert Hughes, president of New Visions for Public Schools; Nancy Roob, president of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation; and John Byrne, executive editor of BusinessWeek.

A number of speakers cautioned that, in spite of all the positive trends, enormous challenges still confront the sector. Among them: ensuring that nonprofits are funded in a way that allows them to build their overall capacity to deliver results, not just to pursue specific programs. Nonprofits face a “pervasive bias against overhead,” Tierney cautioned. “This is insidious, it’s terrible—and it’s just stupid.”

Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute, welcomed the audience and explained how Peter Drucker anticipated the boom among nonprofits many years ago. Among other things, “Peter saw . . . the ability of nonprofits to provide cohesion and a sense of community,” Wartzman said, noting that Drucker called the sector “central to American society . . . and indeed its most distinguishing feature.”

“He wrote these words, of course, long before Bill Clinton trumpeted the power of giving,” Wartzman added. “Or Bill Gates and Warren Buffett made headlines with their remarkable munificence. Or publications like BusinessWeek began reporting on all this with a seriousness previously reserved for covering industry alone. Whether they know it or not, all of these folks—and so many of you—are building on the Drucker legacy.”

Later in the day, Wartzman chatted onstage with Steven M. Hilton, president of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, about how Drucker’s teachings are helping the 60-plus-year-old organization move forward.

Ira Jackson, a Drucker Institute board member and dean of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, also took a few minutes just before the conference to speak with BusinessWeek about the day’s events and Drucker’s continuing impact on effective management and ethical leadership. To view that online interview, click here.

11/07

Winners picked for the Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation; Brooklyn-based job training program to receive $35,000 prize

The Drucker Institute has announced this year’s winners of the Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation.

The “Made in NY” Production Assistant Training Program, which enables unemployed and low-income New Yorkers to start careers in the TV and film industry, was awarded the $35,000 first-place prize. Co-sponsored by Brooklyn Workforce Innovations, a nonprofit organization, and the New York City Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting, the program offers four weeks of free training in both “hard” and “soft” skills followed by two years of job placement and career advancement services.

This year’s runner-up ($7,500) was Rx Partnership in Richmond, Va., which distributes free medication to the uninsured through health centers around the state. Additionally, DIGNITY Programs—operated through Catholic Charities Community Services in Phoenix—was given the third-place award ($5,000) for its innovative efforts to help former prostitutes rebuild their lives. In all, more than 340 organizations applied for these honors.

“Long before it was fashionable, Peter Drucker taught us that nonprofit organizations are often leaders in innovation—doing things with a creative spirit and effectiveness that most businesses can only hope to emulate,” said Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute. “This year’s winners underscore just what Peter was talking about.”

The Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation has been given annually since 1991 to recognize existing programs that have made a real difference in the lives of the people they serve. Consideration is based on Drucker’s definition of innovation—change that creates a new dimension of performance. Cash prizes are designed to celebrate, inspire and further the work of innovative nonprofit organizations in the United States.

The “Made in NY” PA Training Program impressed the judges, in part, because of the success it has achieved in a relatively short period of time. The program was launched only last year; it has since certified 101 individuals as “Made in NY” PAs and has placed every single one of them into the production workforce. Additionally, several of the program’s graduates have already moved into higher positions.

The Production Assistant Training Program builds on a well-known marketing campaign. The “Made in NY” Incentive Program offers film and television productions a combination of tax and marketing credits, along with various customer services, for shooting in the Big Apple.

“By partnering with the mayor’s film office, Brooklyn Workforce Innovations was able to take advantage of the ‘Made in NY’ brand and use it to help serve those who are truly in need,” Wartzman said. “Drucker wrote that any successful organization needs to do two things constantly to thrive: innovate and market. ‘Made in NY’ earns high marks on both counts—and we hope, given that cities and states all over the country have film commissions of their own, others will take notice of this program and use it as a model.”

According to the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting, the “Made in NY” PA Training Program also addresses a growing market need, as New York City last year had the highest number of television and film shooting days in its history. Additionally, the program targets widespread unemployment and lack of career opportunities among young African-American and Latino New Yorkers. Ninety-seven percent of those who have gone through the program are people of color, and all are from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

“We’ve had so much success because we’re helping people develop skills the employer really wants,” said Katy Finch, the Program Director of the “Made in NY” PA Training Program. “The staff has a production background, so we really understand what happens on a set.”

“PAs are the first point of contact that residents have with film and television shoots on our city streets,” said Katherine Oliver, Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting. “The ‘Made in NY’ PA Training Program is committed to providing well-trained PAs from diverse backgrounds for the hundreds of films, television shows, and commercials that come to New York each year. These talented graduates further the goals of smooth relations between productions and communities. We’re very proud the program has already accomplished so much.”

The Drucker Institute will honor the winner and two runners-up on Nov. 19 in New York at a gala dinner co-hosted by the Leader to Leader Institute. The dinner will be preceded by an all-day conference, “Creating the Future of Nonprofits: Opportunity and Innovation in the Social Sector.”

11/07

The Drucker Institute re-releases The Nonprofit Drucker, an action guide to nonprofit leadership and management, on audio CD

The Drucker Institute has re-issued The Nonprofit Drucker, a landmark five-volume audio series featuring Peter Drucker’s insights into the management of the social sector.

Originally recorded in 1989 in cassette format, The Nonprofit Drucker has now been converted to CD, with a new introduction that highlights the continuing relevance of the series to today’s nonprofit world. The discs feature 25 hours of interviews—with Peter Drucker and of Drucker in conversation with nonprofit leaders. The material served as the basis for Drucker’s book, Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices.

“Though this material is nearly 20 years old, it sounds like it could have been recorded yesterday, in part because Peter was so forward-thinking and in part because what he taught was so fundamentally important,” said Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute. “What’s more, these CDs couldn’t come at a better time. Volunteering at nonprofits is way up, and social entrepreneurship is exploding. Once again, Peter was way out in front in anticipating the trend.”

The CDs, now available to all, were first released on Nov. 19, 2007, at a conference held in New York called “Creating the Future of Nonprofits: Opportunity and Innovation in the Social Sector.”

During the event, which was presented by the Drucker Institute and the Leader to Leader Institute, Steven Hilton, the president of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, recalled how he and his staff had listened to the Drucker audio series many years ago and how they’re still using the lessons they learned to move the organization ahead. Hilton noted, for instance, that he still comes back to one basic Drucker principle time and again: “There is an old saying that good intentions don’t move mountains; bulldozers do. In nonprofit management, the mission and the plan—if that’s all there is—are the good intentions. Strategies are the bulldozers. They convert what you want to do into accomplishment.”

To buy a copy of The Nonprofit Drucker on CD, click here.

11/07

Survey of top marketing executives ranks Drucker as one of the three most important business "gurus" of today

A just-published survey has found that top marketing executives rank Peter Drucker among the three most important thinkers in business.

Specifically, the October survey asked an elite group of marketing professionals: “What one marketing/business guru do you feel is most important currently?” Drucker ranked third, behind only best-selling author Seth Godin and Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs. Drucker was picked more often than such luminaries as Warren Buffett, Tom Peters and Jim Collins.

“What’s funny is that Drucker always hated the label ‘guru,’” said Zach First, assistant director of the Drucker Institute. “Still, whatever term you use, these results clearly underscore the enduring strength of Drucker’s legacy and the continuing relevance of his ideas.”

The survey, by Anderson Analytics, was conducted among members of the Marketing Executives Networking Group, an invitation-only organization limited to senior executives in strategic planning, marketing, advertising and sales who earn at least $150,000 annually. More than 600 of the group’s 1,657 members responded to the survey.

11/07

Beijing Review features coverage of Drucker conference in China, remarks by Institute board member Ira Jackson

Underscoring the global reach of Peter Drucker’s teachings, an advertorial in the Beijing Review hailed the second annual Drucker Management Forum in China a “success” and featured remarks made at the September gathering by Ira Jackson, a Drucker Institute board member and dean of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management.

The piece in the English-language publication noted that more than 400 people attended the two-day event, which was focused on innovation and entrepreneurship.

“There is so much to be proud of and hopeful about in China today,” the piece quotes Jackson, who served as the keynote speaker, as saying. “The Olympics, the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, the longest sustained economic double-digit growth rate in history.”

Jackson went on to add: “Even amidst all this amazing progress, I firmly believe that your success in creating, encouraging and supporting a new generation of social entrepreneurs is the most important and hopeful development of them all.”

During the forum, the advertorial pointed out, the Bright China Academy was formally renamed the Peter F. Drucker Academy. It is dedicated “to carrying forward Drucker’s spirit and carrying it to Chinese business circles.”

11/07

Drucker Institute to host book signing for William Cohen, author of the just-published 'A Class with Drucker'

The Drucker Institute will host a book signing for William Cohen, author of the just-published A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World’s Greatest Management Teacher, on Nov. 10, 2007.

Cohen studied under Peter F. Drucker from 1975 to 1979 at what was then called Claremont Graduate School, and he received the first doctoral degree from the management program that Drucker led there.

“To say that I learned much from Peter Drucker would be a gross understatement,” Cohen writes. “What he taught literally changed my life. When I met him I was a struggling ex-Air Force officer only recently involved in business management, with no academic experience at all. Beginning with my graduation from Claremont’s program, and following many of Peter’s lessons . . . I was re-commissioned in the Air Force Reserve and rose to the rank of major general. I entered academia and eventually became a full professor and a university president. . . . I became a book author and wrote books which were published in 18 languages. . . .

“For all this,” Cohen adds, “though he would deny it, I credit Peter Drucker.”

Cohen will sign his latest work at the Institute from 3 to 4:45 p.m. The event is part of Drucker Day, which is being put on by the Office of Alumni Relations at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management.

In addition to Cohen, Drucker Day will feature keynote addresses by two of the world’s most renowned thinkers on leadership, both of whom have just published books of their own. Harvard University’s Rosabeth Moss Kanter has just released America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again. And USC’s Warren Bennis will see his new book released on Nov. 8. Co-authored with Noel Tichy, it’s called Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls.

For more on Drucker Day, please click here.

10/07

Drucker Societies around the world convene major events, hear from Institute leaders on Drucker's legacy

Groups around the world held major events in September to promote the teachings of Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management.

In Seoul, the Drucker Society of Korea presented its annual Innovation Awards to companies and social-sector organizations making a meaningful difference in that country. This year’s winners included a CEO who has built and operates Asia’s most creative, efficient and successful airport at Incheon; an NGO that encourages people to give to nonprofits 1% of their income, which is considered extraordinary in Asia; and a mayor and his team of human-resources executives, who have turned a backwater into a best-practice national model of lifelong learning and technology-driven personalized training.

Ira Jackson, dean of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and a member of the Institute’s Board of Advisors, was a keynote speaker at the Korean awards ceremony. This was just one part of a trip that Jackson made through Asia, strengthening ties between the Institute and Drucker Society chapters. (For more on his travels, click here.)

Jackson also spoke in China at the Peter F. Drucker Management Forum. This second annual gathering, which this year focused on innovation and entrepreneurship, drew some 500 attendees in Beijing. (For more on the forum, click here.)

Meantime, Institute board member Doris Drucker was delivering her own keynote address in Sydney at the Australian Institute of Management convention. Her provocative talk, titled “Information: Is it Everything?” explored whether we have become “mentally obese” from devouring information just because it’s there. How much, she asked, is actually being converted to knowledge and enacted as wisdom? (For more on the AIM conference, click here. For a transcript of Doris Drucker’s talk, click here. Video of her talk is available in three parts: part 1, part 2, part 3.)

“The work that our friends around the globe are doing to build on Peter’s legacy is fantastic, and we have a lot to learn from them,” said Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute. “We’re proud that Doris and Ira could be a part of these wonderful events.”

For more on the activities of Drucker Society chapters around the world, click here.

9/07

Drucker Institute names finalists for the $35,000 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation

The Drucker Institute has announced 11 finalists for this year’s $35,000 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation.

The Institute, which works to advance the ideas and ideals of the late Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management, will honor the winner and two runners-up on Nov. 19, 2007, in New York at a gala dinner co-hosted by the Leader to Leader Institute. More than 340 organizations applied for the award.

The dinner will be preceded by an all-day conference, “Creating the Future of Nonprofits: Opportunity and Innovation in the Social Sector.”

The Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation has been given annually since 1991 to recognize existing programs that have made a real difference in the lives of the people they serve. Consideration is based on Drucker’s definition of innovation—change that creates a new dimension of performance. Cash prizes are designed to celebrate, inspire and further the work of innovative nonprofit organizations in the United States.

In addition to the $35,000 first prize, the second-place winner will receive $7,500 and the third-place winner will receive $5,000. (For a list of previous winners, click here.)

The judges for this year’s awards are: Ira A. Jackson, dean of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management; Geneva Johnson, secretary of the Leader to Leader Institute’s Board of Governors and former president and CEO of Family Service America; Jeffrey M. Johnson, Yucaipa Cos. executive, chairman of the board of the United Way of Greater Los Angeles and former publisher of the Los Angeles Times; Richard Polanco, chairman of the California Latino Caucus Institute and former California Senate Majority Leader; C. William Pollard, former chairman and CEO of ServiceMaster Co.; and Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute. The administrator of the award is Kerry Boyle, executive director of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management.

This year’s finalists are:

BerkShares, Great Barrington, MA. This is a local currency project of the E.F. Schumacher Society and the Southern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce. In circulation since 2006, BerkShares create consumer awareness, support local businesses and facilitate the development of new productive capabilities to fulfill the needs of the community.

Friendship Volunteer Center, Sarasota, FL. The Disaster Volunteer Initiative seeks to implement a countrywide coordinated response to disasters by establishing relationships and creating partnerships among non-traditional groups of volunteers from neighborhoods, civic organizations, faith-based groups, businesses and government agencies.

Elderly/Disabled Housing Program, St. Augustine, FL. This initiative offers homeowners living in dilapidated housing the opportunity to have their house demolished and a new home built on the same lot. Financial counseling through grant funding is offered, in addition to family support and advisement.

The “Made in NY” Production Assistant Training Program, Brooklyn, NY. This program enables unemployed or low-income New Yorkers to start careers in TV and film production through four weeks of free skills training followed by two years of job placement and career advancement services.

Wake Up and Walk Tour, Madeira Beach, FL. This effort involves an epic 10,000-plus mile walk of the United States’ perimeter by Executive Director Andrew Mandell, “Mr. Diabetes.” Mandell gets up close and personal with the public about diabetes to create awareness of the warning signs, risk factors, complications, preventability and financial costs.

DIGNITY Programs, Phoenix, AZ. This project was pioneered through Catholic Charities by a survivor of prostitution to help women safely and successfully break free from prostitution and rebuild their lives through community action, street outreach services, support/education groups and alternatives to incarceration.

ForSight Imaging, York, PA. This program serves people who are blind, providing them with a job and career path that seeks to broaden the range of industry positions available to them, from manufacturing to technology. It empowers blind employees to reach their full potential as knowledge workers instead of factory workers.

Disabled and Alone/Life Services for the Handicapped Inc., New York, NY. This program supports families concerned with the future needs of their disabled loved ones through membership in Life Services. Each member family is assigned a Personal Advocate who provides support during emergencies, offers guidance and advocacy, and develops a personal relationship with the family and disabled person.

Career Technology Program, Baltimore, MD. Focused on providing at-risk students at the Baltimore Talent Development High School with in-demand technology skills that lead to industry certification, the program utilizes a visual curriculum and offers the opportunity to take an adult certification course and receive college credit.

Rx Partnership, Richmond, VA. The partnership solicits free medication from pharmaceutical companies and arranges their distribution directly to affiliate free clinics and federally qualified health centers throughout Virginia.

Housing Foreclosure Prevention, Cleveland, OH. This consumer-action led agency provides foreclosure-prevention counseling, while effectively preventing and addressing predatory lending through public education, individual loan resolution assistance, grassroots enforcement of Credit Reporting Agency (CRA) responsibilities, negotiation of CRA agreements with banks, creation of quality loan products in low-income neighborhoods and advocacy for increased regulation of predatory lenders.

10/07

Drucker Institute to co-host major conference in New York on the social sector: 'Creating the Future of Nonprofits'

The Drucker Institute, along with the Leader to Leader Institute, will host a major conference in New York on Nov. 19, 2007, entitled "Creating the Future of Nonprofits: Opportunity and Innovation in the Social Sector."

The conference, which is sponsored by BusinessWeek magazine, features an impressive lineup of leaders from the world of foundations and nonprofits, who will share their latest thinking on topics such as having a sustained social impact; the future of prize philanthropy; how social-sector organizations can bring their projects to scale; and much more.

Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute, noted that the presenters and panelists at the event will be building on the work of Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management.

"Peter was a pioneer in understanding and writing about the significance of nonprofits-both in terms of their having a huge effect on the lives of the needy, as well as creating a much-yearned-for sense of community for the volunteers and others involved with lending a helping hand," Wartzman said.

"Many people think of Peter strictly as a 'business guru.' That's wrong. He not only advised many of the world's top corporations. He also counseled many of its top nonprofits, including the Girl Scouts of America, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army and others."

10/07

BusinessWeek launches 'The Drucker Difference,' a new column by Institute Director Rick Wartzman

Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute, has begun writing an every-other-week column for BusinessWeek as part of the magazine’s new online focus on management issues.

The column, which debuted in mid-September, runs on BusinessWeek’s website every other Monday. It will also appear occasionally in the print edition of the magazine.

The column ties the teachings of Peter F. Drucker, who is widely considered the father of modern management, to events in the news. It will also, from time to time, highlight the work of scholars and practitioners in all sectors—business, government and the nonprofit world—who have been influenced by Drucker.

“We’re delighted to have an authority on the most influential thinker in management write from Drucker’s perspective,” said John A. Byrne, editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek.com and the magazine’s executive editor. “It’s a way to keep Drucker’s ideas and ideals alive and relevant to a new generation of managers and leaders.”

To go to BusinessWeek online, click here.
For past columns, click here.

9/07

Drucker Societies converge on Claremont to learn how Drucker's teachings are being applied across the globe

Representatives from 10 countries converged on the Drucker Institute for a three-day symposium in late June, all united by a common purpose: to further the legacy of Peter F. Drucker.

The inaugural Drucker Society Global Symposium convened leaders from countries with well-established Drucker Society chapters, such as South Korea, China and Japan. They were joined by those from other nations—Australia, Brazil, Canada, Switzerland, Taiwan and the U.S.—who are planning to soon launch or expand such societies.

Each society has a different focus. In South Korea, for instance, top corporate executives gather regularly to read Drucker’s work and discuss how it can be adopted to improve their companies and communities. In the U.S., meanwhile, those inspired by Drucker’s principles are hoping to use them as a foundation to attack a range of social problems, including alarmingly high high-school dropout rates.

At the symposium, attendees shared how their societies are organized and their goals for the future.

“We don’t want to dictate what these societies’ agendas should be, as they all have different ways to apply Peter’s thinking,” said Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute. “The important thing is that they’re all using Peter’s teachings as a prism through which to examine some of the most significant issues of the day.”

Ira Jackson, dean of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and a member of the Institute’s Board of Advisors, found a great deal of hope in the symposium. The gathering, he said, was one sign that “globalization may yet become a ‘race to the top’ in which responsible business leaders join with government and nongovernmental organizations in creating a rising tide that lifts many more boats and allows for sustainable growth and a better chance for the next generation.”

For more on the activities of the world’s Drucker Societies—and to find out how to start a chapter of your own—click here.

7/07

Drucker Institute names its first director as it continues the transition from archive to 'action tank'

Claremont Graduate University has named Rick Wartzman, author and longtime writer and editor at the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times, as director of the Drucker Institute.

The Drucker Institute was established in May 2006 with the mission of taking Peter F. Drucker’s ideas and ideals to new audiences in new ways.

“Throughout his career, Rick has demonstrated an acute understanding of social and economic trends, and has an ability to communicate extremely well,” said Ira Jackson, Dean of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management. “We’re excited that in Rick, we have an opportunity to communicate Peter’s writings and teachings to today’s generation.”

Drucker wrote 39 books (translated into dozens of languages) and countless articles before he died in November 2005 at the age of 95. Winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, he was hailed by BusinessWeek as “the most enduring management thinker of our time.” He influenced everyone from Winston Churchill to Bill Gates.

Both profound and pragmatic, Drucker believed that well-run, humanistic organizations—be they in business, government or the nonprofit sector—are the keys to a healthy society. Indeed, Drucker taught that a fundamental purpose of every institution is to look out for the common good.

“The Drucker Institute will carry forward Peter Drucker’s legacy, and Rick Wartzman is a great choice to help us build new initiatives and share messages in a cogent, enticing fashion,” said CGU President Robert Klitgaard.

Wartzman began his career in 1987 with The Wall Street Journal and over the next 15 years there held a variety of reporting and editing positions, including White House correspondent, Houston bureau chief and founding editor of the paper’s weekly California section. He joined the Los Angeles Times as business editor in 2002 and in that role helped shape “The Wal-Mart Effect,” a three-part series that won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. In 2006, Wartzman revamped the Times’ Sunday magazine, West, which under his guidance was named the best newspaper supplement in the country by the Missouri School of Journalism. He is the co-author, with Mark Arax, of the bestseller The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire. His new book, Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of The Grapes of Wrath, is due out in 2008.

“I am thrilled to be part of the Drucker Institute and look forward to working with the board and the team at CGU,” Wartzman said. “Peter’s multi-disciplinary approach—bringing in history, sociology, philosophy and more—and his ability to touch all sectors, from corporate to public to philanthropic, gives us the chance to have an impact that is at once deep and wide.”

The Institute Team

Wartzman’s appointment is just one part of the Drucker Institute’s fast-moving expansion and evolution from what was strictly an archive to a think tank and action tank. Zach First will also be joining the Institute in the fall as its assistant director. First recently received his doctorate from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.

Others at the Institute include Joseph Maciariello, the Horton Professor of Management at the Drucker School and a longtime friend, colleague and collaborator of Peter Drucker’s. As part of his activities at the Institute, Maciariello is wrapping up a project in which he has turned Drucker’s vast body of work into a 14-module curriculum, soon to be made available for use by schools, business and leadership groups and more.

Drucker Institute archivist Jacob High, meanwhile, is overseeing the digitizing of Drucker’s papers and related materials, making them accessible online.

The Drucker Institute is guided by a Board of Advisors whose international flavor reflects Drucker’s global reach. The board’s members include John Bachmann, senior partner at the investment firm Edward Jones; Bob Buford, cable TV pioneer, author and chairman of the Buford Foundation; attorney Cecily Drucker, daughter of the late Peter Drucker; author, inventor and entrepreneur Doris Drucker, wife of the late Peter Drucker; Nobuhiro Iijima, president of Tokyo-based Yamazaki Baking Co.; Ira Jackson; Robert Klitgaard; K.H. Moon, chief executive of Yuhan-Kimberly Ltd. of South Korea; C. William Pollard, former chairman and CEO of ServiceMaster Co.; Ming Lo Shao, founder of Bright China Holding Ltd.; and Craig Wynett, general manager of Future Growth Initiatives at Procter & Gamble Co.

“I sincerely welcome Rick Wartzman, the new Director of the Drucker Institute,” Doris Drucker said. “His mandate is to get things done, to think creatively about programs, and to energize all of us who want to see Peter’s insights on management projected into the future. His hands-on approach promises that Peter’s legacy will be kept alive, and I look forward to years of growth of the Institute under his leadership.”

New Opportunities, Ongoing Initiatives

Wartzman noted that “among my first tasks” is to assemble “an ambitious slate of programming” for the Institute. “At the same time,” he added, “I am coming into a place that already has some really fantastic projects underway. We have all the excitement of a start-up, but this isn’t a blank slate, either.”

He pointed out, for example, that in late June the Institute hosted a global symposium of Drucker Society chapters. Attendees from 10 countries and across the United States gathered for three days to discuss how Drucker’s teachings could be used to help tackle some of the big issues facing society, from ensuring that more citizens are prepared to be “knowledge workers” to restoring people’s faith in public and private institutions. The group has pledged to continue its dialogue.

Other initiatives that have been launched include:

A program, cosponsored with the California Latino Caucus Institute, to help train newly elected public officials in the state to be more effective in their roles as policymakers and public servants.
A visiting scholars program, in cooperation with the Drucker School. The first two Distinguished Drucker Scholars in Residence will be Professor Jiro Nonaka of UC Berkeley and Hitotsubashi University and Charles Handy, renowned author and organizational behavior expert.
The $35,000 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation, which will be presented in November in New York, in conjunction with the Leader to Leader Institute.

For more information, go to www.druckerinstitute.com.

7/07