Chapter Four. Self-Confidence Must Be Built Step-by-Step

One warm day in the Drucker classroom he passed on a lesson which was not explicit. This was unlike Peter, who was usually very explicit in both his writing and his speaking. I was a little out of sorts at the time that he gave us this wisdom; and consequently, I missed some of the preamble to his lesson, which might have made the lesson he taught more obvious to me.

At the time I was working at McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company in Huntington Beach, California, in charge of advanced technology marketing. That was about fifty miles down the road, southwest of Claremont, and it usually took me about an hour to drive to class. My main car in those days was a lime-green Plymouth Arrow. Because ...

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