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

• Author: Marshall, Jeffrey
• Position: Bookshelf - Book review - Brief review

A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World's Greatest Management Teacher. By William A. Cohen. Amacom, 258 pages. $24.95.

This book is an unabashed homage to perhaps the most revered management teacher and writer of the last 50 years, Peter Drucker. The author, who met Drucker as a doctoral student of management at California's Claremont University, where Drucker was an eminence grise for many years until his death in 2005, says he owes virtually everything he has accomplished to Drucker's wisdom. Indeed, Cohen became a full professor, management consultant and university president.

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While the "lost lessons" of the title seems to oversell the nature of the material, Cohen has nicely summarized many of Drucker's key tenets in 19 chapters. These cover topics from executive accountability to marketing, ethics, leadership, self-confidence and motivation and many more.

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