A Class with Drucker : The Lost Lessons of the World's Greatest Management Teacher

Hailed as a warm and useful read, a class with drucker brings to life invaluable advice from the worlds greatest thinker and writer on management. From 1975 to 1979, author William Cohen studied under the great Peter Drucker and became the first graduate of his doctoral program. What Drucker taught him literally changed his life. In a matter of a few years, he was recommissioned in the Air Force and rose to the rank of major general. Eventually, he became a full professor, management consultant, multibook author, and university president all the while maintaining a nearly lifelong friendship with the master. in A Class with Drucker, Cohen shares many of Druckers teachings that never made it into his countless books and articles, ideas that were offered to his students in classroom or informal settings. Cohen expands on Druckers lessons with personal anecdotes about his teachers personality, lack of pretension, and interactions with students and others. He also shows how Druckers ideas can be applied to the real-world challenges managers face today. Enlightening and intriguing, this book will enable anyone to gain from the timeless wisdom of the inspiring man himself.