Drucker on Leadership: New Lessons from the Father of Modern Management

San Francisco, CA – Peter Drucker, "The Father of Modern Management," died more than two years ago and November 2009 marks what would have been his 100^th birthday. If Drucker were still alive today, what would he have to say about our financial crisis? Given that he cautioned the dangers of executive compensation, predicted the bankruptcy of GM and warned about the global threats to US dominance, perhaps it would have been wise to listen to him and avoided the problems plaguing us today.

In Drucker on Leadership: New Lessons from the Father of Modern Management (Jossey-Bass; 978-0-470-40500-0; November 2009), his first executive Ph.D. student, William A. Cohen, now an author and expert in leadership, explains Drucker's lost leadership lessons--why they are missing, what they are, why they are important, and how to apply them.

Drucker was ambivalent about leadership for much of his career. Despite his struggle with the concept of leadership, he was well aware that it had a critical impact on the accomplishment of any and every project and human endeavor. However, he made it clear that leadership was not by itself "good or desirable." Although Drucker never wrote a book specifically about leadership, there is much he did write about leadership in bits and pieces scattered throughout his 40 books and hundreds of articles. These "bits and pieces" are so powerful that even those few which are credited to him now have had a major impact. It has saved many corporations from failure and helped guide others to outstanding success. For instance, Jack Welch, arguably the most acclaimed executive in the last decade credits Drucker for influencing his own accomplishments. Yet many of Drucker concepts revealed in DRUCKER ON LEADERSHIP will surprise and may even come as a complete shock to many corporate readers.

 DRUCKER ON LEADERSHIP is ideal for executives, managers and entrepreneurs at all business levels - namely, those who have made Peter Drucker’s books continual best sellers for more than 50 years.