Problem Solving the Japanese Way
Peter Drucker had a longtime following and strong readership of his books in Japan. The Drucker Society of Japan/The Drucker Workshop is a well-developed organization, and I’ve been privileged to get to know some of its members at recent Drucker Global symposia.
My former USA TODAY colleague Del Jones has a really interesting article about author Ken Watanabe and a new book published by Portfolio, Problem Solving 101, the English language version of a book originally published in Japan by Diamond (which also publishes Drucker’s books in that country.) According to the article, it was Japan’s biggest selling business book in 2007, yet was originally written as a textbook for seventh and eighth grade students in Japan. Del also references Drucker and Ikujiro Nonaka, co-author of The Knowledge-Creating Company, who was, in 2007, the first scholar in residence at the Drucker School in Claremont, California.