Epilogue: Drucker's Legacy
A genius such as Peter Drucker comes along maybe once every hundred years. That Drucker should devote his genius and his entire working lifetime of more than seventy years to thinking about work, and guiding us to be more effective, efficient, productive, and enthusiastic about our work, is our good fortune.
Like other geniuses who do not simply stop thinking and put down the tools of their labor and abandon them, Drucker was passionately devoted to his profession. He tried to continue to work to the very end. With the help of his wife, Doris, and his friends and colleagues, he succeeded to the best of his ability. He did not quit thinking, analyzing, and perfecting his powerful ideas and concepts because he never considered ...
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