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Although Peter Drucker, “The Father of Modern Management,” died in 2005, his timeless teachings are studied and practiced by forward-thinking managers worldwide. His lessons and wisdom on the topic of leadership—the central element of management—are in constant demand, yet he wrote little under that actual subject heading.
In Drucker on Leadership, William A. Cohen explores Drucker’s lost leadership lessons—why they are missing, what they are, why they are important, and how to apply them. As Cohen explains, Drucker was ambivalent about leadership for much of his career, making it clear that leadership was not by itself “good or desirable.” While Drucker struggled with the concept of leadership, he was well aware that it had a critical impact on the accomplishment of all projects and human endeavors. There is no book from Drucker specifically dedicated to leadership, but a wealth of information about leadership can be found scattered throughout his 40 books and hundreds of articles. Drucker’s teachings about leadership have saved many corporations from failure and helped guide others to outstanding success.
Many of the leadership concepts revealed in this book will surprise and perhaps shock Drucker’s followers. For example, who would have thought that Peter Drucker taught that “leadership is a marketing job” or that “the best leadership lessons for business or any nonprofit organization come from the military”?
Written for anyone who values the insights of the man whose name is synonymous with excellence in management, Drucker on Leadership offers a deeper understanding of what makes an extraordinary leader.
- Sales Rank: #1142735 in Books
- Published on: 2009-11-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.30" h x 1.15" w x 6.40" l, 1.08 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 304 pages
From the Back Cover
Praise for Drucker on Leadership
"Bill Cohen's Drucker on Leadership is the best collection of Peter Drucker's unique insights, deep wisdom, and practical advice I have ever read. Cohen channels Drucker as only a three-decades-long colleague and student can. You will find the lessons highly accessible, immensely enjoyable, and wonderfully fresh."
—Jim Kouzes, coauthor, The Leadership Challenge
"Cohen has written with clarity and authority about the major challenges facing leaders today. And Cohen, like Drucker, emphasizes responsibility and integrity in leadership, qualities so desperately needed today. I strongly recommend this book to you."
—Joseph A. Maciariello, Horton Professor of Management, Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, and coauthor (with Peter Drucker), The Daily Drucker and Management by Peter F. Drucker
"Cohen's unique relationship with Peter Drucker, as student and friend, allows him to extract valuable leadership lessons from Drucker's writings and teachings on management. Cohen's 'labor of love' provides the essential lessons for leaders straight from the Father of Modern Management."
—Ronald E. Riggio, director, Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College
"For those who aspire to lead—and we need a new generation of Drucker-like leaders in organizations in every country around the world—Bill Cohen distills the essential leadership lessons from the world's greatest management thinker."
—Ira A. Jackson, dean and professor of management, Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University
"Through a blend of anecdote and analysis, Bill Cohen has given us great insight into Peter Drucker's thinking on leadership—an aspect of Drucker's work that many have misconstrued or overlooked altogether. This is a new prism through which to view Drucker and, as such, a valuable contribution to the field."
—Rick Wartzman, executive director, The Drucker Institute
About the Author
William Cohen, Ph.D., president of the Institute of LeaderArts, was the first graduate of Drucker'sexecutive Ph.D. program. About him, Drucker wrote: "Mycolleagues on the faculty and I learned at least as much as wecould teach him." Cohen served as major general in the U.S.Air Force Reserve, has held executive positions in severalcompanies, and was president of two universities. He is the authorof many management books, including "The Art of the Leader"and "A Class With Drucker."
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Too many author's insights and experiences unrelated to the main topic of the book
By Igor Skapinker
When I started reading this book I thought that the author wrote about Drucker's view on the leadership and how Drucker's opinion on this subject changed over the years and why. I agree that in the book the author accurately illustrated a lot of Drucker's ideas on leadership.
As the author was Drucker's student, I expected to find in this book not only Drucker's thoughts and opinions from his books, but also those from his classes, from meeting with him, etc. However, later in the book I found more and more places, in which the author wrote his opinions on some subjects, his own insights, his own theories (rather than Drucker's) and sometimes even some basic business concepts which were unrelated to the main purpose of this book.
For example, marketing. Author tries to make a parallel between marketing and leadership, but he provides much more information about marketing than needs to be in the book on leadership. Although he in several places briefly mentions Drucker, these chapters look like author's thoughts rather than Drucker's.
With all due respect to the author, I think he wrote too much about the army and the leadership in the army from his experience and from his perspective rather than from Drucker's. I would prefer to read his book about that topic, but it should be a book different from this one. Otherwise, there is a disconnect between the title of the book and its content.
I would consider this book as a brief overview of Drucker's ideas and would strongly recommend to read Drucker's books for more insights.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Valuable revelations as well as reminiscences
By Robert Morris
Those who have read William Cohen's previously published memoir, A Class with Drucker, already know that he is uniquely and abundantly qualified to discuss someone widely regarded as "the father of modern management." (Peter Drucker would have been dismayed and perhaps irritated by the appellation. Throughout his life, he referred to himself as a "student," a "bystander," or as "an observer.") Drucker was William Cohen's professor "in probably the first executive PhD program in management in academic history" from 1975 until 1979 and Cohen was the first graduate of this program at what was then the Claremont Graduate School. His classes with Drucker met once a week, beginning at 4:30 PM and resumed after a dinner break, continuing until at least 10 PM but sometimes later. These were lecture courses without use of notes but Drucker, a master of the Socratic method of teaching, encouraged Q&A exchanges with students. ("In answering a question he might go off in an unexpected direction which seemingly had nothing to do with the question asked. Before you knew it, he was giving a lecture within a lecture.") He attracted so many students that his classes met in the largest room available. He used the same textbook for all his classes (Management: Tasks, Responsibilities and Practices) and never used a teaching assistant to grade for him. During the dinner break, instructors and students from various classes gathered at an open bar and then dinner in the Faculty Club. Cohen occasionally found himself seated with a group that included Drucker.
What we have in A Class with Drucker is a wealth of Cohen's memories of those years as a student at Claremont Graduate School, his reflections on what he learned from Peter Drucker, and discussions of how those lessons were then applied in his personal life and especially in his career. "I have tried to come close to capturing his actual words, but in any case, I believe I achieved the spirit of what he said and how he said it. My aim is to put the reader in the classroom as if he were there with me at the time hearing Drucker and participating in every interaction I had with him." Cohen succeeds brilliantly in achieving these and other objectives.
What we have in Drucker on Leadership are the results of Cohen's efforts to read and reflect upon all of Drucker's 40+ books and hundreds of articles as well as his (Cohen's) classroom notes in order to formulate at least the essence of Drucker's concept of leadership. Until reading this book, I did not know that Drucker "did at times seem to equivocate about leadership." In 1947, he wrote that "Management [begin italics] is [end italics]"; in 1973, he reiterated, There is no substitute for leadership but management cannot create leaders" It was not until 1988 in an article that Drucker gave the word "leadership" prominence but, by 1996, he had reversed himself completely in the foreword to The Leader of the Future: "Leadership must be learned and can be learned." Cohen notes that, "Toward the end of his career, Peter [as Drucker urged Cohen to address him] concluded not only that leadership could be learned but also that it [begin italics] should be presented [end italics] as a topic separate and distinct from management. Unfortunately, he never did this in a book." Drucker died in 2005, eight days after his 96th birthday.
Fortunately, Cohen presents a "distillation" of all of Drucker's thoughts about leadership from an abundance of resources. He provides a model suggesting the five basic components of effective leadership:
* Strategic planning by the leader as the foundation
* Business ethics and personal integrity as necessary conditions
* Leadership as taught in the military as a baseline model
* Correct perception and application of the psychological principles of motivation
* The marketing model as the general approach
Cohen organizes his material within five Parts:
One: The Leader's Role in Shaping the Organization's Future (Chapters 1-5)
Two: Ethics and Personal Integrity (Chapters 6-10)
Three: The Military: Drucker's Model Organization
Four: Motivation and Leadership (Chapters 16-19)
Five: The Marketing Model of Leadership (Chapters 20-23)
Cohen quotes extensively from Drucker's works throughout the narrative, adding his own comments whenever appropriate. He also includes a number of reminiscences of moments and experiences shared with Drucker over a period of years during which served as a major general in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, held senior-level executive positions in several companies, and was president of two universities. Currently, he is the president of the Institute of Leader Arts.
Of special interest to me is what Cohen reveals in Chapter 20. For example, "Perhaps Drucker's greatest leadership gift is one of his least known but also one of his most far-reaching and integrative ideas: good leadership is essentially marketing. The concept is based on Peter's view that all knowledge workers are partners in an organization, and therefore cannot simply be ordered around. They must be led, and leadership, Drucker concluded, was a marketing job."(from Drucker's book, Management Challenges for the Twenty-First Century published by HarperBusiness in 1999) Since ancient marketplaces thousands of years ago, the primary purpose of marketing has been to create or increase demand for whatever one offers. It requires all four modes of communication: exposition to explain, description to make vivid, narration to tell a story or explain a sequence, and argumentation to convince with logic and/or rhetoric. A leader needs to master all of these skills to attract and then retain the support of others. "However, Drucker did not say `salesmanship'; he said `marketing'...[he] did not say leadership was a `selling job.' He said it was `a marketing job.' This is an important difference." Indeed it is.
For those interested in Peter Drucker and his various perspectives on leadership, this is a "must read."
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Drucker
By Catherine Sidoti
Drucker is one of the gurus of modern management. He knew his stuff. A must keep in your library if you are a manager or a consultant.
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