A Class with Drucker - Headway | Work on yourself

C H A P T E R F O U R
Self-Confidence Must
Be Built Step-by-Step
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warm day in the <strong>Drucker</strong> 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 it was
small, it reminded me of the sports cars that I craved but could not
afford <strong>with</strong> a wife and two young boys to support. I tried to convince
people that it looked something like a Porsche. It didn’t.