- 3171 - PETER DRUCKER - My Hero in education? - As a teacher his Claremont College students were always welcome in his home and he genuinely had the desire to learn something form every student he met. That is why he became one of the most influential teachers most of us have every known.
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- On November 11, 2005, 8 days before his 96th birthday Peter F. Drucker died in Claremont, California. He and his wife Doris had 4 children.
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- Drucker was the creator and inventor of modern management. I first learned of Drucker in 1969 at Hewlett-Packard Company. The employees were learning the corporate objectives. HP had 10 objectives that guided their management and every employee knew them (See book review by Bill Hewlett for more details).
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- One objective was to manage by objective and the best way to learn that was to read Drucker’s, “The Practice of Management”.
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- What I read in the company library, Building 1, during my lunch hours, rang true to my own values and I wanted to learn more. Drucker taught that management was a profession that was all about getting the most out of people. I enrolled in University of Santa Clara masters in business administration program in 1969.
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- Drucker was born November 19, 1909 in Vienna, Austria. His dad was an economist and a lawyer. His mother studied medicine. In 1927, age 18, he studied law at Hamburg University. His first job was as a newspaper writer in 1929, his first story the stock market crash.
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- In 1932 he recognized early the menace of centralized power and wrote about it. Two of his essays so offended the Nazis they were banned and burned in Germany. Drucker immigrated to London when Hitler became chancellor.
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- In 1937 he married Doris Schmitz and immigrated to the US as a correspondent for British newspapers. In 1939 he publishes his first book on “The Origins of Totalitarianism”, a favorite of Winston Churchill.
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- In 1945 he becomes a consultant for General Motors and publishes, “ The Concept of the Corporation” introducing decentralization as a principle of organization. In 1950 he joins a professorship at New York University.
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- In 1954 he publishes “The Practice of Management” asking questions like: what is your business?, who is your customer?, what does he consider value?
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- 1966: “The Effective Executive”, a book on time management.
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- In 1971 he moves to California to teach at Claremont graduate school of business. There he wrote a monthly column for the Wall Street Journal, for 20 years.
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- In 1981 as a consultant for Jack Welch, CEO for General Electric, he asked: “If you weren’t already in a business, would you enter it today? If the answer is no, what are you going to do about it? Welch remade GE into the most successful corporation in America.
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- In 1984 Drucker begins to become disenchanted with American corporations and becomes a critic. He was against reckless mergers and acquisitions. He was against excess staff and assistant-to’s. He was against high CEO salaries and said, no CEO should make more that 20 times the rank and file worker.
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- Drucker said, the CEO who are reaping massive earnings and firing thousands of workers are morally and socially unforgivable and we all will pay a heavy price for their actions. Drucker’s disenchantment lead to his working with non-profit organizations from the Girl Scouts to Saddleback Church, founder of “The Purpose Driven Life”.
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- In 2002 President Bush presented him with the Medal of Freedom. In 2005 he died after publishing 38 books. At age 85 when asked which of his 26 books he was most proud of he said, “my next one“.
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- Drucker was a consultant and a teacher who never told anyone the answers, he simply asked the right questions and watched the answers arrive in the students. He encouraged business leaders never to use the word “I”, always “we” recognizing the needs and opportunities of an organization come before their own needs.
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- He taught that knowledge workers should be treated and managed as if they were volunteers. Their interest in personal achievement and personal responsibility, their expectations for continuous learning and training, their desires for respect and their own authority, should be given to them. Ask not what you can achieve but what you can contribute.
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- Always focus on opportunities, not on problems. Every management meeting should discuss opportunities first until they are analyzed and dealt with before discussing any problems. Exploit change as one of those opportunities.
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- Every decision is risky and you have not made the decision until you have found a way to implement it.
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- He always valued substance over style, he had no room for charisma in managers.
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- Organizations exist to fill customer needs. Get on the same side of the desk as your customer focusing on outside the company so you can refresh what people are doing inside the company.
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- A true American hero.
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- I have over a dozen of these book reviews if your are interested.
‘Management by Objective” was the first review I wrote. 3,170 reviews ago.
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These reviews are available in print or email. Business, economics, marketing in 3 binders. Astronomy reviews in 20 binders with lots of pictures. You can borrow binders. You can send me review number and I can email. Or, go on http://jdetrick.blogspot.com. The purpose is to learn pearls of wisdom efficiently, it takes 8 hours to read a book, write a review of pearls discovered, email is miraculous way to pass it along, a 10 minute read at 98% efficiency. Delete button is perfect solution any time you want. Reading reviews is as close to perpetual motion efficiency as you can get and still obey the laws of physics. Pass along to any young mind that is interested. Jim
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1. Management Training #1
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2. MBO Planning
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3. More on MBO
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4. E.F. Hutton, Group Dynamics, Irving Janis
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5. Business Strategy - Dan Thomas, 1979
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6. Managing - Harold Geneen
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7. The Adaptive Corporation - Alvin Toffler
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8. Developing Business Strategies - David Aaker
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9. Challenge Facing the Electronics Industries - Bill Taylor
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10. Love Thy Customer - Service Design
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11. 12. 13. Passion For Excellence - Tom Peters, 1985
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14. Manager of the Future - John Mee, 1973
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18. How to Make People Decisions - Peter Drucker, 1985
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- 2899 - COMETS - from outside our solar system? 2I/Borisov was an interstellar comet that visited our solar system last year, 2019. Astronomers have revealed the unusual chemical composition inside this comet. This strange ingredient has provided new clues about where this traveling space rock originated.
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- 3163 - AVOGADRO’S - number of molecules in a Mole? This review answers the question, Are there as many oxygen atoms in a single breath as there are breaths in all the Earth’s atmosphere? What’s your guess, “i.e. calculation“
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- 3164 - PYTHAGOREAN - theorem to derive Relativity? Einsteins’s equation can be recognized as the Pythagorean Theorem for Relativity. “E” is the hypotenuse, “(mc^2)” is the opposite side of a right triangle and (mv*c) is the adjacent side of the right triangle. The Theorem says that the hypotenuse squared is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides of a right triangle. Here is the derivation:
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- 3166 - - TEACHING - how to learn? The goal of teaching must be to teach students how to learn. Students need to cultivate the ability to ask questions. This is the cornerstone of critical thinking. It is the exercise to learn to use creativity.
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- 3167 - CALENDAR - biginning of time? - Calendar of the Universe, since the beginning of time. From 10^-43 seconds to 10^120 seconds , with higher resolution around 2.5 to 27 billion years, and 14 to 15, 14.9 to 14.999 billion years. All in 80 kilobytes.
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- 3168 - TIME - how fast does it flow? The most accurate clock in the universe would probably be a rotating star like a pulsar, but on Earth atomic clocks provide our most accurate track of time. The GPS system uses atomic clocks to accurately track positions and relay data to the planet. To calculate the most accurate measure of time the clocks
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- 3170 - HUBBLE - deep field discoveries? The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990. It weighed 22,500 pounds, 14 feet in diameter, 43 feet long, and orbits at 300 miles elevation. In 1993 a 94 inch mirror was repaired to solve some resolution problems. Cost of the program was $1,400,000,000 dollars.
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