Bruce Rosenstein

Living in More Than One World (eBook, ePUB)

How Peter Drucker's Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Millions revere Drucker as "the father of modern management"-this is the first book to share his reflections on self-management . Based on Bruce Rosenstein's 20 years-plus study of Drucker's life and thought . Helps you construct a complete life plan through exercises, questions, and illustrative anecdotes and quotes How can we have a rich and fulfilling life? For Peter Drucker, one of the most influential thinkers of modern times, the secret was "living in more than one world"-enjoying a diverse set of interests, activities, acquaintances, and pursuits. Drucker was able to do this despite extraordinary demands on his time, and now Bruce Rosenstein shows how the man who transformed organizational management can transform the way you manage your personal and professional life. An enormously influential business author and consultant, Drucker also wrote extensively on self-development and self-management, but these writings are scattered throughout dozens of books and articles. For the first time Rosenstein brings these ideas together into a straightforward framework that guides you in building a multifaceted life and career. It's the next best thing to being mentored by Drucker himself. Rosenstein shares Drucker's advice for, first, honing in on your core competencies-developing your main talents, clarifying your values, and managing your time. With this firm foundation established he uses Drucker as both source and example to show how to enrich your life by developing parallel and second careers, making a difference in the lives of others through voluntarism and service, and using teaching and lifelong learning as complimentary ways of staying engaged and up to date. By living in more than one world you gain new insights, see your world from fresh perspectives, access ever-changing sources of inspiration and stimulation. Peter Drucker managed a varied professional life as a writer, educator, and consultant, and was deeply immersed in literature, music, and art. But he wasn't superhuman. This is a life that can be lived by anybody who has the tools and Bruce Rosenstein provides them in this thoughtful and inspiring book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781605098920
• Artikelnr.: 38329060

Autorenporträt

Bruce Rosenstein is a journalist and research librarian. He was with USA Today, in McLean, Virginia, for twenty-one years, until the final stages of writing Living in More Than One World. He was the “embedded Librarian” in the News section, and regularly wrote about business and management books for the newspaper’s Money section. He wrote about and interviewed Peter Drucker extensively for USA Today, and wrote a series of columns about him in 2001–2002 for Information Outlook, the publication of the Special Libraries Association/SLA. He has studied Drucker’s work for more than twenty years. In addition to USA Today and Information Outlook, Bruce has written for such publications as Leader to Leader, ON- LINE, Library Journal, News Library News, and ARSC Journal, a music publication. He scripted and selected the recordings for a weekly rock music radio program heard worldwide on e Voice of America, from 1974 to 1988. He is also a lecturer in the Catholic University of America’s School of Library and Information Science, in Washington, D.C. Bruce has a BA in Communications from the American University in Washington, D.C., and an MSLS from the Catholic University of America’s School of Library and Information Science.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Frances Hesselbein
Preface
Chapter 1: Designing Your Total Life
Chapter 2: Developing Your Core Competencies
Chapter 3: Creating Your Future
Chapter 4: Exercising Your Generosity
Chapter 5: Teaching and Learning
Conclusion: Launching Your Journey
Suggested Readings
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author

Rezensionen

Rosenstein has been able to highlight and focus on a unique and overlooked quality from Drucker's vast firmament of ideas: the centrality of human development and self-development. This book will be a blessing to all of Drucker s readers and an enormously important book for all leaders, actually, for everybody!
Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, University of Southern California, and author of On Becoming a Leader

Few people on earth know Peter Drucker and his work better than Bruce Rosenstein. Living in More Than One World will be on the top of my book stack. It is a welcome and very personal addition to Drucker s incomparable legacy. Unique among all Drucker books, this one tells you what to do with the rest of your life and how to go about it.
Bob Buford, Chairman, The Drucker Institute, and author of Halftime and Finishing Well

Drucker lives! In these marvelous pages Bruce Rosenstein brings the wisdom and lessonsof the master back to life and shows us how we can benefit from applying them in our personal activities and professional careers.
James O'Toole, author of Leading Change and The Executive's Compass