Wise, Unexpected Advice from Peter Drucker

I’m enjoying the book A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World’s Greatest Management Teacher. The advice is not unexpected for Drucker, but unexpected when compared to much of conventional wisdom. Here is the table of contents, which gives a good reflection of this:

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

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