Peter Drucker has always been interested in music. In a 1997 book, he identified informative episodes in his life. One came after seeing Verdi’s opera Falstaff, written when the composer was 80 years-old.
In Drucker’s book The Effective Executive, he talks about how most great composers (Mozart was an exception) could only focus on one work at a time. So knowledge workers should do the same. Drucker once drew a lesson from sitting in on a music lesson with pianist Artur Schnabel (“I have to learn from successes”). Finally, Drucker has made analogies between conductors and CEOs in his writing.
Key Takeaways:
- Music played a role in the life of Peter Drucker, going all the way back to his childhood.
- Based on his writings Peter Drucker felt that there were 7 different things that he experienced that contributed to his career later.
- Drucker believed that in order to really succeed, a person needs to make sure they focus on their priorities.
“In the first chapter of his 1978 memoir Adventures of a Bystander, Drucker notes that his grandmother had been a young pianist, a pupil of Clara Schumann, and “was asked by her several times to play for Johannes Brahms, which was Grandmother’s proudest memory.””
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