A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness

  • 6h 28m
  • Joseph A. Maciariello
  • HarperCollins
  • 2014

A year-long leadership development course, divided into short, weekly lessons, based on Peter Drucker's personal coaching program, previously unpublished material, and selected readings from the management guru's classic works, compiled by his longtime collaborator Joseph A. Maciariello.

A Year with Peter Drucker distills the essence of Peter Drucker's personal mentorship program into an easy-to-follow 52-week course, exploring the themes Drucker felt were most important to leadership development, including:

  • Leaders Must Set Sights on the Important and not the Urgent—a key differentiator between a subordinate and a chief.
  • Management is a Human Activity—Process must serve people, in and out of the organization.
  • The Roadmap to Personal Effectiveness—the importance of mission and doing the Right Things not just Getting Things Done.
  • The critical importance of leadership succession especially at top ranks of the organization.

Each weekly management meditation includes a lesson and a message or anecdote taken from Drucker's extensive body of work, as well as suggestions for further reading, reflective questions, and quick, easy prompts to help readers incorporate the knowledge they've learned into their daily work.

A lifetime of wisdom brilliantly honed into a single essential volume by Drucker's collaborator Joseph A. Maciariello, A Year with Peter Drucker gives both lifelong Drucker fans and young executives now discovering his brilliance an invaluable opportunity to learn directly from the late master.

About the Author

Joseph A. Maciariello is Marie Rankin Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management of Claremont Graduate University. He collaborated with Drucker on many publications, including The Effective Executive in Action, the revised edition of Management, and The Daily Drucker.

In this Book

  • Developing Leaders, Not Functionaries—Effective Leaders Get the Right Things Done and You Can Trust Them
  • Questions To Ask Before Committing A Portion Of Your Life To The Service Of An Organization
  • Three Fundamental Questions for a Functioning Society of Organizations
  • Education and Management—Keys to Economic Development
  • Management Rooted in the Nature of Reality
  • Make the Important Rather than the Urgent Your Priority in Life
  • Manage in Two Time Dimensions
  • Concentration
  • Organize Work for Effectiveness
  • Information Literacy for Executive Effectiveness
  • Principles of Professional Leadership and Management
  • Management: "The Governing Organ of All Institutions of Modern Society"
  • The First Job in Any Organization Is to Make Top Management Effective
  • Control by Mission and Strategy, Not by Hierarchy
  • Sustaining the Spirit of an Organization
  • Our Problems in the United States are Social Problems
  • Rough Period of Transition Ahead for America
  • A Major Period of Transition for Society and Individuals
  • Seeing the Future That Has Already Happened
  • Seeing the Future That Has Already Happened
  • Continuity and Change
  • Systematic Abandonment and Innovation
  • Using the Mission Statement to Create Unity in the Organization
  • A Primer on Market Research of Noncustomers
  • Phase Changes as Organizations Grow and Change
  • Centralization, Confederation, and Decentralization
  • The Networked Organization—A Model for the Twenty-First Century
  • Managing the Superstar
  • A Second Chance for Failures
  • What Kind of Organizations Does America Need to Strengthen Society?
  • The Succession Decision—Maintaining the Spirit of the Organization
  • Planning for Succession in Organizations
  • Mission
  • Accommodating Various Constituencies in a Mission
  • The Salvation Army
  • Diffusion of Innovation—Public Schools
  • Application of Peter Drucker's Methodology of Social Ecology
  • Pursuing Significance After Success
  • Work in an Area of Your Unique Contribution
  • Individuals May Need a Process to Help Them Move from Success to Significance
  • Where Do I Really Belong?
  • Halftime is an Entrepreneurial Enterprise
  • A Catalyst to Help People Manage Themselves and Move to the Second Half of Their Lives
  • Our Society in the United States Has Lost Its Sweetness
  • The Power of Purpose—Providing Motivation and Achievement
  • The Stewardship of Affluence and the Stewardship of Influence
  • Making Ourselves Useful to Others and to Ourselves
  • What Do Leaders Stand For?
  • You Become a Person by Knowing Your Values
  • What Do You Want to Be Remembered For?
  • "We Mentor … Because We Can Envision What a Person Can Become"
  • Peter Drucker's Ten Principles for Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life—As Reported by Bob Buford
  • Lessons Learned
  • Notes
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