A Class with Drucker

The Lost Lessons of the World’s Greatest Management Teacher

Author: William A. Cohen
Pub Date: 2007
Your Price: $24.95
ISBN: 0814409199
Format: Hardcover

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What Peter Drucker wrote about his student, Bill Cohen:

"Dr. Cohen became my student at the Graduate Management Center of the Claremont Graduate School after he had already achieved signal success in two separate careers-as a military officer and a businessman. He soon established himself as both an outstanding student and an outstanding scholar-and, after attaining the Ph.D. degree, soon thereafter as an outstanding and inspiring teacher. He has continued to produce books of true scholarship which, at the same time, have tremendous practical applications.

In fact, Bill Cohen is a true inspiration for all of us in Academe-and, above all, for students who need a true role model, a true exemplar of the very best they could and should aspire to."

What Bill Cohen writes about his teacher, Peter F. Drucker:

"Peter Drucker was my professor in probably the first executive Ph.D. program in management in academic history. I was his student from 1975 to 1979, and the first graduate of this program at Claremont Graduate School, which is today known as The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and is part of Claremont Graduate University. This was a program to which Peter committed his life from the first class in 1975. Our relationship continued through the years until shortly before his death. To say that I learned much from Peter Drucker would be a gross understatement. What he taught me literally changed my life. When I met him I was a young struggling ex-Air Force officer only recently involved in business management, with no academic experience at all. Beginning with my graduation from Claremont's program, and following many of Peter's lessons, I was re-commissioned in the Air Force Reserve and rose to rank of major general. I entered academia and eventually became a full professor and a university president, even teaching several times at my alma mater as an adjunct professor. I became an author and wrote books which were published in 18 languages.For all this, though he would deny it, I credit Peter Drucker. Peter Drucker is gone, but his deeds, achievements, accomplishments, and contributions live after him, and they are significant.Drucker was the one who created management as a discipline considered worthy of study, not only in business, but by governments, universities, and organizations of every kind. Peter not only changed the discipline of management, he changed the world. The results of his research and study, his unique way of looking at things, his gift for cutting right to the heart of the matter, his insights, and his ability to articulate truths that most of us did not readily see were all extraordinary and unprecedented. I was privileged and blessed to be Peter Drucker's student."

Adapted from A CLASS WITH DRUCKER: The Lost Lessons of the World's Greatest Management Teacher by William A. Cohen, Ph.D. (AMACOM 2007).

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