Why Peter Drucker?
Peter is the least known and the most underappreciated great man of the 20th century. He’s a hero to people who are in business and have faced managerial problems. They’ve read his articles and learned about him in business school, but he’s not a household name. Yet this writer has probably had more influence on more people than any other writer in the latter half of the 20th century. Q: Peter recently turned 93 years old. Why produce a documentary on him now? A: I’ve worked with him over the years, and it suddenly occurred to me that no one had ever done a documentary on Peter Drucker. I got to know him through his work with nonprofits, which has been his major activity in the last 15 years. He was turning 90 when I started thinking about this. It was now or never if he was going to be a participant. I spent about 10 hours over four sessions with him last December and January. After an hour and a half, I would think he had had enough. But he would always say, “No, no, let’s continue.”
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