I am back home after five whirlwind days in Claremont, California; for the all-day event Drucker Day 2013, held last Saturday November 2nd, and to meet and reconnect with people for my second book: Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way: Developing and Applying a Forward Focused Mindset. Although the official publication date is November 22, the Huntley Bookstore of the Claremont Colleges arranged a book signing for me at Drucker Day, during the outdoor cocktail reception that ended the events.
Drucker Day this year was terrific, as it always is. I wrote about the event last year, and in previous years. Although the day is aimed especially at alumni, as well as current and prospective students of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University; it is always a great tribute to the life and legacy of Peter Drucker, and a nonstop source of networking, information and inspiration for anyone seriously interested in Drucker-related studies.
The day before Drucker Day, I did a super-informal, one hour “Coffee With Bruce,” a small but intimate get-together and book discussion, at Hagelbarger’s. Whenever I am in Claremont, I enjoy spending time at this coffee shop/eatery/campus hangout across the street from the Drucker School, so it was a thrill to actually do an event there; even a low-keyed one. We had a nice mix of Drucker School administration, alumni and current students.
I’ll write more in my next post about the events of Drucker Day. In the meantime, check out Jeremy Hunter, an Associate Professor of Practice at the Drucker School, is a longtime friend whom I wrote about in the new book, and also in last year’s first post about Drucker Day 2012. Legacy and mindfulness (the topic of Jeremy’s talk) are ideal subjects to focus on for the rest of the weekend, and into the week ahead.