The Drucker Foundation brings together a peerless selection of leaders, best-selling authors, world renowned consultants, and respected executives to share a common vision of the future of leadership in these new, never before published essays. This book is a compendium of new thought. It is a book about the future quality of our lives, our businesses, our organizations, our society - and the leadership required to move us into the future. Peter F. Drucker, who is the acknowledged father of modern management, opens the book with his forward, a distillation of his years of observation on leadership.
Some people are thinkers.
Some are prophets. Both roles are important and badly needed. But without followers, there can be no leaders. An effective leader is not someone who is loved or admired. He or she is someone whose followers do the right things.