Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way

by Bruce Rosenstein

Amazon link: Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way: Developing and Applying a Forward-Focused Mindset

YOUR FUTURE BEGINS TODAY

You can dream it. You can plan it. You can try to make it happen. But you can never really prepare for the future unless you have a future—focused mindset. That is the underlying message behind the inspiring words and wisdom of Peter Drucker, the legendary “father of modern management.” Drucker believed that the future must be created—day by day, person by person—rather than be left to chance or fate.

This powerful book by Drucker scholar and author Bruce Rosenstein incorporates the master’s time—tested principles into a step—by—step daily plan that will change your life forever. Starting right now, you can:

• Create a future—focused mindset. Learn how to build a better tomorrow by taking steps today.
• Determine the future by what has already happened. Look for clues in the past to forecast the future.
• Become your own successor. Keep yourself in demand and in control of your destiny.
• Shape the future of your organization. Go beyond the planning stage and create real change.
• Build your future beyond your current workplace. Identify challenges and opportunities in all aspects of your life.

Whether you’re a recent college graduate faced with a difficult job market, an ambitious entrepreneur trying to anticipate the Next Big Thing, or a struggling executive weathering a storm of constant global change, Drucker’s surprisingly timely approach to the future will guide you through anything the world throws at you.

You’ll discover creative techniques for rolling with the punches and landing on your feet, open—minded strategies for turning your ideas into action, and the latest tools for adapting to new technologies like social media and Internet marketing. You’ll find inspiring advice and insights drawn from personal interviews with Drucker himself and some of the greatest business leaders of our time. Most importantly, you’ll develop your own exciting, forward—thinking approach to the future that will dramatically alter your life, inside and outside the office.

This is how you take charge of your destiny. This is how you make your dreams come true. This is how to Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way.

PRAISE FOR CREATE YOUR FUTURE THE PETER DRUCKER WAY:

“Rosenstein skillfully draws on both his own wisdom and that of his mentor to deliver a plan for individuals and businesses in creating a future rich in personal and professional success. Leave your compass at home; all you need is Rosenstein’s new book!”—MARSHALL GOLD℠ITH, million—selling author of the New York Times bestsellers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

“Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way presents Peter Drucker as a role model for designing and living your own future, beginning in the here and now. The book has expanded my understanding of Drucker’s work and I’m confident it will do the same for you.”—CHIP CONLEY, founder and former CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality; author of New York Times bestseller Emotional Equations

“Rosenstein has opened the door to an important and often misunderstood area of Drucker’s work—why an understanding of the future is so critical for our development as leaders. It confirms my belief of a bright future ahead.”—FRANCES HESSELBEIN, President and CEO, The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute

“In this concise and compelling book, Rosenstein provides a unique contribution: mining the nuggets of Peter Drucker’s most important work about the future and presenting them in a brief, accessible format. Bruce is the ideal person to make Peter’s work useful and valuable in this way.”—BOB BUFORD, Chairman Emeritus, Board of Advisors of The Drucker Institute; author of Halftime

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“The greatest danger

in times of turbulence

is not turbulence;

it is to act

with yesterday’s logic”.

— Peter Drucker

The shift from manual workers
who do as they are being told —
either by the task or by the boss —

TO knowledge workers

who have to

manage themselves ↓

profoundly challenges social structure …

“Managing Oneself (PDF) is a REVOLUTION in human affairs.” …



“It also requires an almost 180-degree change in the knowledge workers’ thoughts and actions from what most of us—even of the younger generation—still take for granted as the way to think and the way to act.” …



… “Managing Oneself is based on the very opposite realities:


Workers are likely to outlive organizations
(and therefore, employers can’t be depended on for designing your life),

and the knowledge worker has mobility.” ← in a context

“More than anything else,

the individual
has to take more responsibility
for himself or herself,
rather than depend on the company.”
continue ↓

“Making a living is no longer enough
‘Work’ has to make a life .” continue

… finding and selecting the pieces of the puzzle

The Second Curve

These pages are attention directing tools

for navigating changing worldS — worldS relentlessly

moving toward unimagined futures.

What’s the next effective action on the road ahead

It’s up to you to figure out what to harvest and calendarize
— working something out in time (1915, 1940, 1970 … 2040 … the outer limit of your concern) — nobody is going to do it for you.

It may be a step forward to actively reject something (rather than just passively ignoring) and then working out a plan for coping with what you’ve rejected.

Your future is between your ears and our future is between our collective ears — it can’t be otherwise.

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The Drucker Lectures:
Essential Lessons on
Management, Society, and Economy

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

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