Peter Drucker lectures to his students in an executive management course. Topics discussed during his lecture include: the invention of strategic planning, the lack of foreign policy, strategic thinking, core competences, bad habits, the limiting hiring practices of the Japanese, the correlation between what one does not like to do and what he or she does poorly, Leonardo da Vinci’s lack of follow through, the reorganization of General Electric in the 1950s, great actors and playwrights, the demand of movies with the invention of the television, Drucker’s work style, the importance of decision making in the #1 position, looking at oneself as a cost center, insurance and uncertainties, foreign exchange risk and currency fluctuations, the United States’ debt in its own currency, scenario planning, Control Data and PLATO, values and beliefs, and remembrance. The lecture continues beyond the length of the tape recording.
Strategic planning International relations Core competencies Marks & Spencer plc Potentials Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 General Electric Company Performance Television Decision making Risk Insurance Foreign exchange Debts, Public Control Data Corporation Values Lectures and lecturing
Source
Color videocassette: Excerpt from New Demands on the Executive, EMGT 337; Fall 2000, 9-16-00; ¾ inch VHS cassette; Box 95
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