A Year with Peter Drucker

52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness

Joseph A. Maciariello

• Publisher: Harper Business
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780062315670
• eBook ISBN: 9780062315694
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Economics

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development course, divided into short, weekly lessons, based on Peter Drucker's personal coaching program, previously unpublished material, and selected readings from the management guru's classic works, compiled by his longtime collaborator Joseph A. Maciariello.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

Index

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Abandonment, 62–63, 66, 70, 138, 167, 302, 391–92, 402, 405–6

in government, 170, 171

“If we did not do this already, would we go into it now?” question and, 176

in nonprofit service organizations, 171–73, 174

as right action in three cases, 174

at Salvation Army, 282–83

systematic, 170–76

“Abandonment” (Drucker), 62–63

Academy of Management Executive, 37, 40

Achievement, 159

Action, values as commitments to, 373

Action conclusions, 13

Adams, John, 130–31

Adventures of a Bystander (Drucker), 260

Adversity, 40

Affluence, stewardship of, 357–63

Affordable Care Act, 38

Africa, 358, 360–61

African-Americans, 148

Age distributions, 151, 152, 153, 334

Age of Capitalism, 29

Age of Discontinuity, The (Drucker), 150, 151, 167, 286

Agility, organizational, 167–68

AIDS, 358, 360

AIG, 80

Alcoholics Anonymous, 129, 130, 331–32

Alliances, 210, 211

Amazon, 215

America. See United States

American colonies, 203–4

American Heart Association, 173

American Red Cross, 266, 267, 332

Anthony, Robert N., 171, 405

Apparat, 20

Apple, 302, 307

Argentina, 112–14, 116–17

Armstrong, Neil, 139

Articles of Confederation, 204

Ashbrook, Tom, 18, 97–98, 134, 204

Asian-Americans, 148

Asian financial crisis, 30, 75

AT&T, 354

Athletes’ salaries, 220

Atlanta Coca-Cola, 112–14, 116–17

Augustine of Hippo, Saint, 159, 366

Authority, 232

legitimate, 234

Baby boomers, 153

Balance sheet, 232

Bank of England, 353

Barabba, Vince, 367

Barna, George, 388

Barnard, Chester I., 285

Barsky, Constance, 155, 156, 159

Baseball, 75–76

Robinson in, 233

Basic Ecclesiastical Communities (BECs), 25, 26–27

Basketball, 72, 75, 76

Battle of Shiloh, 223

Beane, Billy, 75–76

Beatrix, Queen, 5

Beatty, Jack, 367

Beauregard, P. G. T., 223

Beltran, Father Ben, 25, 26

Best practices, 293, 313

for education, 287, 293

for nonprofit organizations, 269

Bible, 172, 220, 397

Board of directors, 79–81, 82, 86–91, 92, 196, 403

internal behaviors that facilitate effective functioning of, 89–91

as public and community relations organ, 88–89

and removal of top management, 88

as review body, 87–88

succession decisions and, 249–50, 403, 409

three functions of, 86–89

qualifications for, 80

Bok, Derek, 242, 244, 246, 440n57

Bolles, Dick, 270

Bonaventure, Saint, 366

Bono, 301

Book printing, 291

Boom periods, 40, 41

Boredom, 309, 326, 338, 339

Boston Celtics, 72

Bottlenecks, 107–8

Bottom line, 404

Botts, Timothy, 17

Boundary conditions, 85

Boy Scouts, 266

Brooklyn Dodgers, 233

Brown, Donaldson, 398

Buchanan, James, 68, 241–42

Buckley, William F., Jr., 96

Buford, Bob, 128, 147, 235–36, 267, 27...

Table of contents

• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Introduction
• Effective Leaders
• Management Is a Human Activity
• Setting Your Sights on the Important, Not the Urgent
• The Road Map to Personal Effectiveness
• Management in a Pluralistic Society of Organizations
• Navigating a Society in Transition
• Maintaining Your Organization Through Change
• Structuring Your Organization
• Managing Your Members
• The Succession Decision
• Lessons from the Social Sector on the Power of Purpose
• Developing Oneself from Success to Significance
• Character and Legacy
• Lessons Learned
• Appendix
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author
• Also by Joseph A. Maciariello
• Credits
• Copyright
• About the Publisher