Best Business Books Roundup for 2011
Many excellent business-related books were published in 2011; more than most people can either read (or write about) during the year. So we owe a debt of gratitude to the …
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Living in the world in 2012
I always look forward to The Economist’s great yearly publication, The World in…In recent years, a web component has been added. The World in 2012 gives us a great head …
Daniel Kahneman and the Battle of the Minds
Margaret Heffernan poses a stark question in the title of her recent entry on Huffington Post, Is Daniel Kahneman Really the World’s Greatest Living Psychologist? Kahneman, the Princeton University Nobel …
Chuck Leavell: From Sea Level to Tree Level
One of the best examples of a multidimensional person living in more than one world is Chuck Leavell. He is probably best known as a top-level pianist who has played …
Drucker and Claremont, 2011: Learning, Friendship and Networking
Last year, I spent the early days of November in Claremont, Ca., doing a presentation at the Drucker School and being on a panel of authors at Drucker Day 2010, …
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Gratitude and Guest Posts
Today’s post has two aims: to point towards my two recent guest posts, and to thank the people who provided me the opportunities to write them. The more recent is …
Dr. Robert Buckman (1948-2011)
I’m always on the alert to learn about people who live multidimensional lives. By all accounts, Dr. Robert Buckman fit that description perfectly. He was, among other things, an oncologist, …
The Drucker and McLuhan Worlds Come Together in Toronto
On October 13 I was privileged to give a presentation for the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management Getting it Done Expert Speakers Series. My topic, “How Peter Drucker’s …
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Rick Wartzman’s What Would Drucker Do Now?
Peter Drucker would have appreciated the tone of the essays that comprise Rick Wartzman’s What Would Drucker Do Now? Wartzman writes in the Drucker spirit: tough-minded yet positive and fair, …
Reflections After a Great Retreat
I returned a few days ago from the 2011 Berrett-Koehler Authors Cooperative Retreat, at the Stillheart Institute, located among the redwoods, not far from San Francisco. Last year, after attending …