The Business Development Director of the Drucker Institute, Peter Gondolfo, joins me next week on the podcast to discuss Peter Drucker and the future of the institute. I think you will be quite surprised at how Peter Drucker’s Legacy is evolving.
An excerpt from the podcast:
To give you a little bit of background about the Drucker Institute, in 2006, following the 2005 passing of Peter Drucker, more than a hundred Drucker-like thinkers gathered in Claremont and they wanted to answer the question, ‘What is Peter Drucker’s legacy?’ In the end, they decided that it is a collection of ideas and ideals that should be acted upon for future generations of leaders responsible for companies and communities in which we work and live. And as a result of that, the Drucker family and the board of the Drucker archives decided that the best way to keep his legacy alive was not simply to look backward, referring to his writing and books, but to look forward by building on his wisdom and applying it to important contemporary issues.
Joe: Did Peter Drucker have a vision on how his legacy was going to play out or anything? Did he ever lay any groundwork for that?
Peter: He helped create the archives, and he was intentional in that creating them, he did not set aside any financial resources for us. He believed strongly that if this was going to survive, it wasn’t going to be just be based on him setting up some legacy project that would pay homage to him. He gave them access to the intellectual property let’s say for using consulting services and working with different organizations. As he would like to say, he wanted the organization to fight for its like, just like any business or idea that his clients were working on.
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