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A full day of debate, analysis, homage and, just occasionally, longueurs here at the inaugural Peter Drucker forum.
Delegates heard about Drucker’s “integrity, humility and generosity” from Rick Warren, the priest chosen by Barack Obama to speak at his inauguration as President. It turns out that Dr Warren’s all-time best-selling book The Purpose Driven Life was heavily inspired by Drucker.
We heard both CK Prahalad and Charles Handy share their perspectives. CK said that, in his opinion, no other person has had the impact on the practice of management that Drucker has. Charles Handy observed that, even when he felt he had provided some new insight into the challenge of management, he would invariably discover that Drucker had already written at some length along similar lines, often dozens of years earlier.
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