Leadership Lessons from Peter Drucker by Peter F. Drucker

Author:Peter F. Drucker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC
Published: 2013-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Devoted Protégé

The person who filled in the gaps is Joseph Maciariello, a professor and longtime colleague of Drucker’s at Claremont Graduate University and the academic director at the Drucker Institute, which I run. As Maciariello describes it, the project was a true labor of love, with an emphasis on the word “labor.”

“This was Drucker’s magnum opus,” he says. “But even though I just tagged along, it is also the biggest thing I’ve ever done.”

Maciariello first happened upon Drucker’s work in the early 1960s when he was helping to design management systems at Hamilton Standard, the old aerospace giant. After a few trips to the corporate library to investigate what had been written about the general discipline of management, Maciariello discovered that it was pretty much a canon of one: Drucker’s 1954 landmark, The Practice of Management, was about the only thing available on the topic.

Maciariello later went on to study economics at New York University. Drucker was teaching there at the time, “but I couldn’t get into his classes,” Maciariello recalls. “My schedule didn’t work out.”

In 1973, Maciariello received his doctorate. That same year, Management was published. Maciariello’s wife, remembering his admiration for The Practice of Management, bought him the new book. He devoured it.

“Drucker was trying to bring The Practice of Management up to date,” Maciariello says. “But I began to see that in spirit, it was the same.” What resonated in particular for Maciariello was Drucker’s “deep, deep concern for the human being.”

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