Drucker - Leading in a time of change: a conversation with Peter F. Drucker & Peter M. Senge: viewers workbook

Frances Hesselbein

The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, founded in 1990, takes its name and inspiration from the acknowledged father of modern management. By providing educational opportunities and resources, the foundation furthers its mission to lead social sector organizations toward excellence in performance."

The Drucker Foundation believes that a healthy society requires three vital sectors: a public sector of effective governments; a private sector of effective businesses; and a social sector of effective community organizations. The mission of the social sector and its organizations is to change lives. It accomplishes this mission by addressing the needs of the spirit, mind, and body of individuals, the community, and society. This sector also provides a significant sphere of effective and responsible citizenship.

In the ten years after its inception, the Drucker Foundation, among other things:

Presented the Drucker Innovation Award, which each year generates several hundred applications from local community enterprises; many applicants work in fields where results are difficult to achieve.

Worked with social sector leaders through the Frances Hesselbein Community Innovation Fellows program.

Held over twenty conferences in the United States and in countries around the world.

Developed seven books: a Self-Assessment Tool (revised 1998) for nonprofit organizations; three books in the Drucker Foundation Futures Series, The Leader of the Future (1996), The Organization of the Future (1997), and The Community of the Future (1998); Leader to Leader (1999); Leading Beyond the Walls (1999); and The Collaboration Challenge (2000).

Developed Leader to Leader, a quarterly journal for leaders from all three sectors.

Established a Web site (drucker.org) that shares articles on leadership and management and examples of nonprofit innovation with hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.

To realize its vision for the next ten years, the Drucker Foundation will bring together the best leadership and management voices from across the world with a focus on providing social sector organizations with the ideas and tools that enable them to better serve their customers and communities.

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PETER F. DRUCKER has been a teacher, writer, and adviser for more than fifty years. He is recognized worldwide as the "father of modern management" and has consulted with large and small businesses, nonprofit organizations, federal agencies, and free-world governments. He has been an editorial columnist for the Wall Street Journal and a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and other publications. He is the author of thirty-one books dealing with management, society, economics, and politics, which have sold more than six million copies and have been translated into more than twenty languages. His writings, which the Harvard Business Review calls "landmarks of the managerial profession," describe management of the modern organization and the changing society. His most recent book, Management Challenges for the TwentyFirst Century (1999), presents his thinking on leading change.

A professor of management at the Graduate Business School of New York University for twenty years, Dr. Drucker is now honorary chairman of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and is Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. He was educated in Austria and England and has a doctorate in public and international law as well as honorary doctorates from universities around the world.

PETER M. SENGE is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is chairman of the Society for Organizational Learning, a global community of corporations, researchers, and consultants dedicated to the "interdependent development of people and their institutions." He is the author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990), which was identified by the Harvard Business Review as one of the five most influential management books of the past two decades. He is coauthor of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook (1994), The Dance of Change (1999), and Schools That Learn (2000).

In addition to his work as a consultant, Dr. Senge has lectured throughout the world, translating the abstract ideas of systems theory into tools for better understanding of economic and organizational change. He received a B.S. in engineering from Stanford University, and an M.S. in social systems modeling and a Ph.D. in management from MIT.

FRANCES HESSELBEIN is chairman of the board of governors of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and is a member of the boards of other organizations and corporations. She is the former chief executive of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. She is the lead editor of the Drucker Foundation's best-selling books, including The Leader of the Future (1996), The Organization of the Future (1997), The Community of the Future (1998), and Leading Beyond the Walls (1999), published by Jossey-Bass. She also serves as editor-in-chief of the journal Leader to Leader. She speaks on leadership and management to audiences around the world in the private, nonprofit, and governmental sectors. She has received fourteen honorary doctorates and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America's highest civilian honor, in 1998.