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Sto caricando le informazioni... Adventures of a Bystanderdi Peter F. Drucker
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is a facinating group of essays in which Ducker recalls much of his experience from the 1930s through the 1960s. I t puts in context much of which we usually learn from secondary sources. Drucker was THERE. The chapter "The Monster and the Lamb" describes Drucker's last days in Germany before he escapes to the West. It is a powerful first hand description of how quickly the Nazis moved into the university to eliminiate the Jews. In "The Man Who Invented Kissinger" Drucker describes Fritz Kraemer, an advisor in the Pentagon. He took on Kissinger as a protege. Both had left Nazi Germany. Drucker claims " Kissinger's thoughts as well as his actions as U.S Secretary of State under Nixon and Ford are pure Kraemer". p. 150 Drucker uses this essay to explain his theory of leadership, especially the necessity for having the great man leave competent successors, as did George Washington, one of his examples. A statement that he makes is so relevant todayl " ,,a crying need to free American foreign policy from its subjugation to domestic affairs". His example is Israel and Kissinger's comment that there are no Arab votes in the Bronx. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Peter Drucker's lively and thoughtful memoirs are now available in paperback with a new introduction by the author. He writes with wit and spirit about people he has encountered in a long and varied life, including Sigmund Freud, Henry Luce, Alfred Sloan, John L. Lewis, and Marshall McLuhan. After beginning with his childhood in Vienna during and after World War I, Drucker moves on to Europe in the 1920s and early 1930s, describing the imminent doom posed by Hitler and the Nazis. He then goes on to describe London during the 1930s, America during the New Deal era, the World War II years, and beyond. According to John Brooks of The New York Times Book Review, "Peter Drucker is at a corner cafe, delightfully regaling anyone who will listen with tales of what must be one of the more varied--and for a practitioner of such a narrow skill as that of management counseling, astonishing--of contemporary professional lives." Dorothy Rabinowitz of the Washington Post writes, "The famous are here as well as the infamous.... All are the beneficiaries, for better or for worse, of Drucker's unerring eye for psychological detail, his remorseless curiosity, and his imaginative sympathy.... Drucker's book appears in a stroke to have restored the art of the memoir and of the essay." Adventures of a Bystander reflects Drucker's vitality, infinite curiosity, and interest in people, ideas, and the forces behind them. His book is a personal and informal account of the rich life of an independent man of letters, a life that spans eight decades and two continents. It will be of interest to scholars and professionals in the business world, historians, sociologists, and admirers of Peter Drucker. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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'Freud was deeply hurt by any hint that his theory was poetry and not science ... [yet] Freud was a very great artist, probably the greatest writer of German prose in this century.' Drucker also quotes novelist Thomas Mann, who on Freud's 80th birthday called psychoanalysis 'the greatest contribution to the art of the novel.' (all on Page 91)