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Marshall McLuhan
"The Man Who Came to Listen" |
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This text was written in 1970 by Marshall McLuhan, together with Barrington Nevitt, for the anthology Peter Drucker: Contributions to Business Enterprise (eds. Tony H. Bonaparte and John E. Flaherty, New York University Press, 1970, pp. 35-55). The first two paragraphs of the text explicitly deal with the cultural influence which Drucker's hometown of Vienna had on his world view.
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Charles Handy
PETER DRUCKER: An Appreciation |
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Think of any management idea that is fashionable today and the chances are that Peter Drucker was writing about it before you were born. He has to be at the front of any list of management thinkers, the guru of gurus, as he has been called.
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Charles Handy
The Unintended Consequences of a Good Idea |
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I once lived and worked inside Windsor Castle. Our home was originally part of the palace of King John. It was from our courtyard that he rode out in 1215 to put his seal on the Magna Carta – an early version, perhaps, of a sort of stakeholder contract, one that, we should note, he agreed to only under extreme pressure.
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Peter Drucker