FOREWORD
I must confess that my first reaction when I learned of the title of Bill Cohen's new book, The Practical Drucker, was to think to myself: “Hmmm. Perhaps an official from the Department of Redundancy Department should be asked to write the foreword instead.”
In my mind, after all, Drucker and practicality are synonymous. Calling a book The Practical Drucker is like referring to someone as a “big giant” or a 100-story building as a “tall skyscraper.”
Indeed, Drucker was so practical that much of the scholarly community regarded him as a pariah. Although he taught at four institutions of higher learning over his long career—Sarah Lawrence College, Bennington College, New York University, and Claremont Graduate University—Drucker never ...
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