I received the following comment from Michael Lee Stallard on the Peter Drucker article I wrote earlier this week.
Thank you for this post. Reading Peter Drucker’s “Managing Oneself” and his biography “Adventures of Bystander” had a profound effect on me. I wrote a tribute to him following his death. Here’s the link:
http://www.epluribuspartners.com/pages/articles/DruckerRemembered.pdf
Michael stated that Drucker’s work forever changed how he looked at organizations and the responsibilities of leadership. I encourage you to read all of this 2 page article. Michael, using Peter Drucker’s biography stated:
the theme underlying all of his writings was a belief in protecting the diversity of individuals from the tendency of those in power to force uniformity, conformity, and centralization…