DRUCKERISM
“Man in his social and political existence must have a functioning society just as he must have air to breathe in his biological existence.”
ESSAY
Stop Managing the Optics
—Start Managing the City
Why Mayor Karen Bass Should Embrace Peter Drucker’s Philosophy to Build a Functional Los Angeles
Leadership today is too often measured by the noise we make, not the results we deliver. In Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass began with a rare moment of clarity. On day one, she declared a state of emergency on homelessness and began restructuring the city’s response systems.
DRUCKERISM
“The number of people who are really motivated by money is very small and most people feel that they are here for a purpose.”
PODCAST
“We're showing up in meaningful ways. We don't wait around for somebody to tell us what to do. That’s the intrinsic nature of how we behave for our clients, for our employees, for the communities where we operate. We're just trying to show up with no agenda other than to be of service.”
Jessica Lall - Managing Director, CBRE
RANKINGS
Each year, the Drucker Institute releases an annual ranking of America’s “Best-Managed Companies” - the Top 250 are published in the Wall Street Journal.
The Institute's ranking model highlights publicly-traded companies “Doing The Right Things Well,” based on their ‘effectiveness’ and their ability to contribute to a functioning society according to Drucker’s five key principles: customer satisfaction, employee engagement and development, innovation, corporate social responsibility, and financial strength.
Top 250: View on Wall Street Journal
Podcast: Watch & Listen
AUDIO BOOK (coming soon)
Hardcover & Paperback:
“A Functioning Society.”
Peter F. Drucker may be best known as a writer on business and management, but these subjects were not his foremost intellectual concern. Drucker's primary concerns were community, in which the individual has status, and society, in which the individual has function. Here he has assembled selections from his vast writings on these subjects. This collection presents the full range of Drucker's thought on community, society, and political structure and constitutes an ideal introduction to his ideas.
Audio Book is being produced by the Drucker Institute.
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ESSAY by Peter F. Drucker
“Managing Oneself.”
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves—their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
Read on Harvard Business Review
Summary: Throughout history, people had little need to manage their careers—they were born into their stations in life or, in the recent past, they relied on their companies to chart their career paths. But times have drastically changed. Today we must all learn to manage ourselves. What does that mean? As Peter Drucker tells us in this seminal article first published in 1999, it means we have to learn to develop ourselves. We have to place ourselves where we can make the greatest contribution to our organizations and communities.
PROGRAM
PhD in Executive Management
The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management stands out among business schools because we approach management as a fundamentally human endeavor that plays an essential role in creating a functioning society.
EVENT
November 6 - 7, 2025
What is next-era leadership? It’s a fundamental rethink of what it means to lead in a world that has moved far, far beyond the conditions and institutions of the postwar era. Across two days of spirited interaction in Vienna, we’ll confront the shortcomings of leadership today – as it is practiced, researched, and taught – and move together toward better ways of building the capacities needed for the future.
FILM