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A Class With Drucker
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A Class With Drucker

The Lost Lessons of the World’s Greatest Management Teacher

William A. Cohen
AMACOM, 2007

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William A. Cohen studied with management guru Peter Drucker while working toward his PhD in executive management at Claremont Graduate School (now the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management). The lessons he learned from Drucker, he says, were life changing, and in this book he aims to transmit to his readers the great man’s wisdom. In fact, Drucker took a somewhat different approach with his students from the one in his books and articles. Thus, Cohen builds upon and reinterprets many of Drucker’s insights and concepts. getAbstract particularly recommends this book to managers who are already Drucker fans and want to learn more – the book is really more like a CD of unreleased recordings by a great artist of the past than like an album of covers by a lesser artist.

Take-Aways

  • Peter Drucker, an icon among management advisers, published widely, but the life-changing lessons he taught his graduate students are not well known.
  • You gain true self-confidence only through achievement. Entitlement won’t do it.
  • What passes for “common knowledge” is often wrong because of bad assumptions and faulty analysis.

About the Author

William A. Cohen earned his doctorate in the first executive PhD program at Claremont Graduate School in 1979, where he studied with Peter Drucker. He is the author of many books on strategy and leadership.

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