A Year With Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness

Based on Peter Drucker's own personal coaching program, previously unpublished material, and selected readings from Drucker's classic works, longtime Drucker collaborator Joseph A. Maciariello provides a yearlong leadership development course, broken into short, weekly lessons.

In A Year with Peter Drucker, Joseph A. Maciariello has distilled the essence of Drucker's personal mentorship program into an easy-to-follow 52-week course, complete with never-before published material from Drucker and excerpts, analysis, and suggestions for further reading. The year will cover the themes Drucker felt were most important to leadership development, such as:

Leaders Must Set Sights on the IMPORTANT and not the URGENT. This is a key differentiator of moving from being a functionary to being a leader.

Management is a Human Activity. Process must serve People, in and out of the organization.

The Roadmap to Personal Effectiveness. The importance of mission and doing the RIGHT THINGS not just GETTING THINGS DONE. Each week contains a lesson, message, or anecdote taken from Drucker's extensive body of published and unpublished work, moving from theme to theme throughout the year.

The week then includes further reading on the subject, deep reflection questions, and a few quick prompts to help readers incorporate the message into the day's work. Maciariello is the perfect person to bring this project together with the scope and accessibility it requires. He worked extensively with Drucker, revising his major works, and co-writing The Effective Executive in Action and The Daily Drucker.

A Year with Peter Drucker gives both lifelong Drucker fans and young executives finding him for the first time the best opportunity yet to take just a tiny bit of time out of their weekly schedule, and spend a year learning everything Drucker.