Living in More Than One World

A short post today to note that I’ve written more on the back story of my new book, Living in More Than One World: How Peter Drucker’s Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life, in a guest post, The Privilege of Writing a Book about Peter Drucker, on the Leader to Leader Institute blog. Frances Hesselbein, the Chairman and Founding President of Leader to Leader, wrote the foreword to my book. From 1990-2002, the organization was called the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, and Drucker played an active role. But well before those years, Hesselbein also worked with him when she was the CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA, and he did considerable pro bono work for the organization. Besides the above guest post, I did another, Drucker’s Wisdom: Five Nuggets, for my publisher, Berrett-Koehler, in the July 23 edition of their lively and informative bi-weekly online newsletter, the BKCommuniqué. My book is also one of the spotlight features in the newsletter, which is free and well worth subscribing to. It continues to be an exciting time for me as I’m starting to hear early, encouraging feedback from people who have read the book. I would love to hear more, whether or not you’ve finished reading it!

Many of us will have to become more entrepreneurially-oriented as we move deeper into the 21st century. In that spirit, be sure to check out the April, 30th anniversary issue of Inc., especially for the highly informative interview with Jim Collins. Jim is well-known for his books Good to Great and Built to Last, and he wrote the forewords for Peter Drucker’s Management: Revised Edition and The Daily Drucker. He references Drucker in his interview, which is about the state of entrepreneurship, and especially the entrepreneur, in the past, present and future.

There are lots of other things worth reading in this issue and on the magazine’s website, including The Business Owner’s Bookshelf, a list of 30 books that should be helpful whether or not you own a business, or think of yourself as an entrepreneur. Drucker’s The Effective Executive is one of the recommendations, along with other such varied fare as Collins’ Good to Great, Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline, Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People and Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of the Start.