A Class with Drucker - Headway | Work on yourself

C H A P T E R F I F T E E N
A Model Organization That
<strong>Drucker</strong> Greatly Admired
P eter
had an extraordinary, in-depth knowledge of so many topics.
Yet there were a few areas of business which he seemed to exclude as a
distinct element to study and I never thought to ask him why. For example,
I was surprised that he did not emphasize leadership more in his
writings or in his classroom presentations. After all, almost every management
writer you can name has also written one or more books on leadership,
and some of them focus on leadership to the exclusion of other
aspects of management.
I always thought this was because he thought leadership was so basic
to every aspect and functional area of management. I still believe this was
the reason. In fact, he did not minimize the importance of leadership; it
ran through most of his lectures and many of his writings, especially over
the last ten years. However, one day one of my classmates asked him about
the fact that he had not written a book on leadership. Peter replied, “The