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اصنع مستقبلك على طريقة بيتر دراكر : تطوير وتطبيق عقلية تركز على المستقبل
هذا الكتاب القوي الذي كتبه الباحث في أفكار دراكر والمؤلف بروس روزنشتاين يتضمن مبادىء دراكر التي خضعت للاختبار على مدى زمني من خلال خطة يومية تدريجية والتي ستعمل على تغيير حياتك الى الأبد.
اذا بدأت الآن فانك ستتمكن من: تكوين عقلية تركز على المستقبل، تحديد المستقبل من خلال ما حدث بالفعل، أن تصبح خليفة نفسك، تشكيل مستقبل مؤسستك، انشاء مستقبلك خارج نطاق مكان عملك الحالي.
سوف تجد نصائح وأفكارا ملهمة مستمدة من المقابلات الشخصية التي تم اجراؤها مع دراكر نفسه ومع بعض أعظم قادة الأعمال في عصرنا والأهم من ذلك سوف تنشىء نهجك الخاص المثير والمتطلع الى المستقبل والذي سيغير حياتك على نحو مذهل داخل وخارج المكتب.
اذا بدأت الآن فانك ستتمكن من: تكوين عقلية تركز على المستقبل، تحديد المستقبل من خلال ما حدث بالفعل، أن تصبح خليفة نفسك، تشكيل مستقبل مؤسستك، انشاء مستقبلك خارج نطاق مكان عملك الحالي.
سوف تجد نصائح وأفكارا ملهمة مستمدة من المقابلات الشخصية التي تم اجراؤها مع دراكر نفسه ومع بعض أعظم قادة الأعمال في عصرنا والأهم من ذلك سوف تنشىء نهجك الخاص المثير والمتطلع الى المستقبل والذي سيغير حياتك على نحو مذهل داخل وخارج المكتب.
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About the author
Bruce Rosenstein
19 books3 followersIn April 2011, I became the Managing Editor of Leader to Leader.
I worked for USA TODAY for 21 years, until December 2008, as a librarian/researcher. Beginning in 1996, I wrote about business and management books for the newspaper’s Money section.
Since 1996, I’ve also worked as a lecturer at the Catholic University Department of Library and Information Science.
Besides USA TODAY and Information Outlook, I have written for such publications as Leader to Leader, Leadership Excellence, GAMA International Journal, American Executive, ONLINE, Library Journal and News Library News. I am also a lecturer for The Catholic University of America’s Department of Library and Information Science in Washington, D.C.
The Special Libraries Association/SLA announced in June 2012 that I was one of two recipients of the 2012 Rose L. Vormelker Award for “dedication to mentoring, outstanding instruction in graduate school settings, and their own professional achievements.”
I have a BA in Communications from The American University, in Washington, D.C., and a MSLS from The Catholic University of America.
Before becoming a librarian, I scripted and selected the recordings for a weekly rock music radio program heard worldwide on The Voice of America, from 1974-1988. During that time period, I wrote about rock music for a number of publications, including Trouser Press, Unicorn Times, ARSC Journal and several others.
In 1980, Steve Leeds and I formed an independent rock music label, Ambition Records, and released one of the first compilations of independent rock, Declaration of Independents.
I worked for USA TODAY for 21 years, until December 2008, as a librarian/researcher. Beginning in 1996, I wrote about business and management books for the newspaper’s Money section.
Since 1996, I’ve also worked as a lecturer at the Catholic University Department of Library and Information Science.
Besides USA TODAY and Information Outlook, I have written for such publications as Leader to Leader, Leadership Excellence, GAMA International Journal, American Executive, ONLINE, Library Journal and News Library News. I am also a lecturer for The Catholic University of America’s Department of Library and Information Science in Washington, D.C.
The Special Libraries Association/SLA announced in June 2012 that I was one of two recipients of the 2012 Rose L. Vormelker Award for “dedication to mentoring, outstanding instruction in graduate school settings, and their own professional achievements.”
I have a BA in Communications from The American University, in Washington, D.C., and a MSLS from The Catholic University of America.
Before becoming a librarian, I scripted and selected the recordings for a weekly rock music radio program heard worldwide on The Voice of America, from 1974-1988. During that time period, I wrote about rock music for a number of publications, including Trouser Press, Unicorn Times, ARSC Journal and several others.
In 1980, Steve Leeds and I formed an independent rock music label, Ambition Records, and released one of the first compilations of independent rock, Declaration of Independents.
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August 15, 2017
I found “Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way” an interesting take on future planning. It’s a curious title. Drucker wrote extensively on business and planning, so you can assume future planning was part of his expertise. I was expecting more a business book. This is written in a way to elicit a more personal method of determining the future, more in the vein of a self-help book. The author is keen on being well-read to best tell the future, and provides the titles of books and magazines, organizations and authors to keep up with, as well as a variety of web sites. Not surprising as the author has a heavy background in libraries. The key take away is to not get trapped in the aftermath of past decisions. When considering a change, ask yourself if you had to make a decision now to do what you had done previously, would you still make the same decision. If not, then change. Seems easy enough. I found the book good in a self-help kind of way. I don’t think the angle of positioning this advice as being from Peter Drucker was necessary, but it was good to be reminded of his writings along the way, and I suspect it helps the book get noticed - it did for me.
April 11, 2020
بشي من التفاصيل و بعض النصائح يطل المؤلف ببعض طرق التفكير اللتي انتهجها بيتر دراكر ،و كيف كان يفكر في المستقبل بشكل مختلف عن كثير من الاداريين
و كثير من تنبؤات داركر قريبة من الواقع المعاصر
انصح بقراءة الكتاب لمن يريد التعرف على ابو الإدارة
و كثير من تنبؤات داركر قريبة من الواقع المعاصر
انصح بقراءة الكتاب لمن يريد التعرف على ابو الإدارة
May 3, 2020
• This is one of the best books that I’ve ever read! And it is, undoubtedly, the one which I will revisit again, at least twice in a year.
• It contains incisive actions points on how to live and thrive in the age of the “knowledge worker”. Plus, it contains a plethora of “Additional Resources” (i.e. other books to read, resources to refer to, in order to generate innovative ideas)!
• It consists of 5 chapters:
Chapter 1 – Create a future-focused mindset:
• People must take as much control of their own future as possible. Increasingly even long-lived institutions have become unstable, and many companies can’t or won’t provide the security that earlier generations of workers could count on. Gone are the days when you could take for granted corporate or even government benefits.
• You depend more on brains rather than brawn in your daily job. Your work centers on learning, conveying, applying, and developing knowledge, based on what you have learned throughout your life and what you will continue to learn. You own your own means of production, by virtue of being a knowledge worker
• Knowledge workers are likely to outlive their employing organizations
• One of his famous lines are looking at “the future that has already happened”. Also, he uses the metaphor of a window i.e. a person should look out of the window and discern what is visible, yet which is unseen by others.
• Age of Discontinuity – 4 discontinuities – new technologies, world economy, emergence of pluralistic institutions, knowledge as the most crucial resource
• One cannot manage change, one can only be ahead of it
• Insights from an Anecdote - Work-life balance cannot be attained, instead work-life integration can be sought
Chapter 2 – Determine the future that has already happened:
• Look for changes in demographics, economy, society, developments in knowledge
• “Predicting the future can only get you into trouble. The task is to manage what is there and to work to create what could and should be.”
• “The answers to the question ‘What has already happened that will make the future? define the potential of opportunities for a given company or industry.”
• The variety of these organizations (both in their missions and subject matter) helped Drucker see the crossover potential from one area to another. He was one of the first, for instance, to say that business had a lot to learn from the nonprofit world, when most people
• thought it was the other way around.
• Chase’s Calendar of events
• “The first area to examine is population. Population changes are the most fundamental—for the labor force, for the market, for social pressures, and economic opportunities.”
Chapter 3 – become your own successor:
• Rather than your organization hiring someone else to do your reconfigured job, a somewhat “different version” of you is hired/retained. It also may mean that you eventually leave your job for something better, more suitable, or different. Th ink of athletes who break their own record as another useful metaphor.
• Diversify your efforts and outputs
• develop a powerful personal brand
• Maintain a global outlook and worldview
• Remain relevant
• “Self-development may require learning new skills, new knowledge, and new manners.”
• Meditation, self-efficacy, multiple intelligence theory (Howard Gardner)
• “Recording time, managing time, consolidating time is the foundation of executive effectiveness.”
Chapter 4 – Shape the future of your organization:
• “It is the individual knowledge worker, who, in large measure, will determine what the organization of the future will look like and what kind of organization of the future will be successful.”
• In an interview with Forbes magazine, he said, “I never predict. I just look out the window and see what’s visible—but not yet seen.” You have different views and different vantage points, depending on where you look and how you look. You either notice things, or you don’t. You and I can look out the window and notice different things. Because we each bring different knowledge, backgrounds, and preconceptions to our viewing, our outlooks and interpretations can differ.
• In your search for the future that has already happened, and in creating a new future, you can profitably apply the “seven sources for innovative opportunity” that he identified in his classic book Innovation and Entrepreneurship (1985): the unexpected (successes/failures and events that happen outside your organization); incongruities; process needs; changes in the structure of an industry or market; demographics; “changes in perception, mood, and meaning”; and “new knowledge, both scientific and nonscientific.”
• Competitive Intelligence (CI), Appreciative Inquiry (AI) (positive psychology)
Chapter 5 – build your future beyond your current workplace:
• The components of the study can serve as a concise guide to the religious/ spiritual quests of any person, college student or not. According to the report’s website (http://spirituality.ucla.edu/findings/), the study looked at five spiritual and five religious qualities.
• The two sets of qualities reveal different categories, but certainly with some crossover.
• The spiritual qualities are equanimity (how well one responds to life’s circumstances and challenges, including feelings of centeredness and life direction), spiritual quest (active search for meaning and purpose and the answers to the big questions of life; meditation and self-reflection can be particularly important here), ethic of caring (how much the individual cares about other people, and the world at large, including issues of suffering and social justice), charitable involvement (not only giving money to charitable causes, but also helping friends in times of need and being involved in community service), and ecumenical worldview (a global worldview somewhat similar to what Drucker advocated; this involves understanding of and tolerance for others, especially those with different religious backgrounds, and the ability to see interconnections among all people and cultures).
• The religious qualities are religious commitment (how strong a role do spiritual/religious beliefs play in life?), religious engagement (including praying and reading religious/sacred texts and attending religious services; this is the more active complement to the “internal” construct of commitment), religious/social conservatism (in the language of the report, this “reflects the student’s degree of opposition to such things as abortion, casual sex, and atheism, as well as an inclination to proselytize and to see God as a father-figure”), religious skepticism (nonreligious views about the origins of the universe, not believing in an afterlife, and a future-related belief that “science will be able to explain everything”), and religious struggle (disillusionment; questioning or feeling distant from one’s religious beliefs and religious upbringing; feeling distant from God).
• It contains incisive actions points on how to live and thrive in the age of the “knowledge worker”. Plus, it contains a plethora of “Additional Resources” (i.e. other books to read, resources to refer to, in order to generate innovative ideas)!
• It consists of 5 chapters:
Chapter 1 – Create a future-focused mindset:
• People must take as much control of their own future as possible. Increasingly even long-lived institutions have become unstable, and many companies can’t or won’t provide the security that earlier generations of workers could count on. Gone are the days when you could take for granted corporate or even government benefits.
• You depend more on brains rather than brawn in your daily job. Your work centers on learning, conveying, applying, and developing knowledge, based on what you have learned throughout your life and what you will continue to learn. You own your own means of production, by virtue of being a knowledge worker
• Knowledge workers are likely to outlive their employing organizations
• One of his famous lines are looking at “the future that has already happened”. Also, he uses the metaphor of a window i.e. a person should look out of the window and discern what is visible, yet which is unseen by others.
• Age of Discontinuity – 4 discontinuities – new technologies, world economy, emergence of pluralistic institutions, knowledge as the most crucial resource
• One cannot manage change, one can only be ahead of it
• Insights from an Anecdote - Work-life balance cannot be attained, instead work-life integration can be sought
Chapter 2 – Determine the future that has already happened:
• Look for changes in demographics, economy, society, developments in knowledge
• “Predicting the future can only get you into trouble. The task is to manage what is there and to work to create what could and should be.”
• “The answers to the question ‘What has already happened that will make the future? define the potential of opportunities for a given company or industry.”
• The variety of these organizations (both in their missions and subject matter) helped Drucker see the crossover potential from one area to another. He was one of the first, for instance, to say that business had a lot to learn from the nonprofit world, when most people
• thought it was the other way around.
• Chase’s Calendar of events
• “The first area to examine is population. Population changes are the most fundamental—for the labor force, for the market, for social pressures, and economic opportunities.”
Chapter 3 – become your own successor:
• Rather than your organization hiring someone else to do your reconfigured job, a somewhat “different version” of you is hired/retained. It also may mean that you eventually leave your job for something better, more suitable, or different. Th ink of athletes who break their own record as another useful metaphor.
• Diversify your efforts and outputs
• develop a powerful personal brand
• Maintain a global outlook and worldview
• Remain relevant
• “Self-development may require learning new skills, new knowledge, and new manners.”
• Meditation, self-efficacy, multiple intelligence theory (Howard Gardner)
• “Recording time, managing time, consolidating time is the foundation of executive effectiveness.”
Chapter 4 – Shape the future of your organization:
• “It is the individual knowledge worker, who, in large measure, will determine what the organization of the future will look like and what kind of organization of the future will be successful.”
• In an interview with Forbes magazine, he said, “I never predict. I just look out the window and see what’s visible—but not yet seen.” You have different views and different vantage points, depending on where you look and how you look. You either notice things, or you don’t. You and I can look out the window and notice different things. Because we each bring different knowledge, backgrounds, and preconceptions to our viewing, our outlooks and interpretations can differ.
• In your search for the future that has already happened, and in creating a new future, you can profitably apply the “seven sources for innovative opportunity” that he identified in his classic book Innovation and Entrepreneurship (1985): the unexpected (successes/failures and events that happen outside your organization); incongruities; process needs; changes in the structure of an industry or market; demographics; “changes in perception, mood, and meaning”; and “new knowledge, both scientific and nonscientific.”
• Competitive Intelligence (CI), Appreciative Inquiry (AI) (positive psychology)
Chapter 5 – build your future beyond your current workplace:
• The components of the study can serve as a concise guide to the religious/ spiritual quests of any person, college student or not. According to the report’s website (http://spirituality.ucla.edu/findings/), the study looked at five spiritual and five religious qualities.
• The two sets of qualities reveal different categories, but certainly with some crossover.
• The spiritual qualities are equanimity (how well one responds to life’s circumstances and challenges, including feelings of centeredness and life direction), spiritual quest (active search for meaning and purpose and the answers to the big questions of life; meditation and self-reflection can be particularly important here), ethic of caring (how much the individual cares about other people, and the world at large, including issues of suffering and social justice), charitable involvement (not only giving money to charitable causes, but also helping friends in times of need and being involved in community service), and ecumenical worldview (a global worldview somewhat similar to what Drucker advocated; this involves understanding of and tolerance for others, especially those with different religious backgrounds, and the ability to see interconnections among all people and cultures).
• The religious qualities are religious commitment (how strong a role do spiritual/religious beliefs play in life?), religious engagement (including praying and reading religious/sacred texts and attending religious services; this is the more active complement to the “internal” construct of commitment), religious/social conservatism (in the language of the report, this “reflects the student’s degree of opposition to such things as abortion, casual sex, and atheism, as well as an inclination to proselytize and to see God as a father-figure”), religious skepticism (nonreligious views about the origins of the universe, not believing in an afterlife, and a future-related belief that “science will be able to explain everything”), and religious struggle (disillusionment; questioning or feeling distant from one’s religious beliefs and religious upbringing; feeling distant from God).
February 6, 2018
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December 6, 2013Create your future the Peter Drucker Way: Developing and Applying a Forward Focused Mindset by Bruce Rosenstein.
In a world of ever increasing uncertainty Bruce Rosenstein, a Drucker scholar, brings a practical, focused and realistic approach to creating our future. With this in mind, Rosenstein articulates clearly and concisely, the degree to which we can, by making incremental changes, build a foundation for tomorrow today. But how do we do this? And, why is this so important today?
Peter Drucker, (1909-2005), a future focused thought leader, was a poignantly insightful writer, orator, consultant and a renaissance man. His love of Japanese art influenced his mindset and imbued his writings with eloquence, beauty and vision. Drucker is known internationally as a leadership and management guru and deeply influenced Rosenstein. The wisdom, insight and deep appreciation of a man, who saw things unseen to others, reveals the unique relationship Bruce had with Drucker.
Through his process of thinking deeply about Drucker principles, Bruce developed and applied a forward focused mindset and created his own future today as the Managing Editor of Leader to Leader, author, speaker and Drucker expert. Rosenstein deftly crafts his work by identifying the fundamental aspects of Drucker’s vast body of work and expands it with thoughts of some of today’s leadership experts. Rosenstein identifies mindset, uncertainty, creation, inevitability, present moment, change, reflections, remove/improve; innovation/entrepreneurship and risk as quintessential elements to build the future mind in a well-defined and focused way.
Written in a highly engaging and self-directed style, this book leads the reader on a journey of self-discovery to conceive, create and innovate. Whether considering disruptions in society, the future that has already happened, being the change or building your future, Rosenstein says it’s important to have an open mind, cast a wide net and drill down to find what is relevant to the future. More importantly, read, discuss, listen and observe.
With the radical changes occurring globally in all facets of our lives, Bruce encourages us to reach beyond our grasp, become change agents, improve ourselves in small ways each day and be our own successor. As we accept transitions and transformations as a way of life, our forward focused mindset can lead us to beat our own personal best. A must for your library or organization!
BOTTOM LINE: Highly recommended for upper division level undergraduate through professionals and general readers. Extensive bibliography, web resources and index. Marianne E. Giltrud, MSLS
In a world of ever increasing uncertainty Bruce Rosenstein, a Drucker scholar, brings a practical, focused and realistic approach to creating our future. With this in mind, Rosenstein articulates clearly and concisely, the degree to which we can, by making incremental changes, build a foundation for tomorrow today. But how do we do this? And, why is this so important today?
Peter Drucker, (1909-2005), a future focused thought leader, was a poignantly insightful writer, orator, consultant and a renaissance man. His love of Japanese art influenced his mindset and imbued his writings with eloquence, beauty and vision. Drucker is known internationally as a leadership and management guru and deeply influenced Rosenstein. The wisdom, insight and deep appreciation of a man, who saw things unseen to others, reveals the unique relationship Bruce had with Drucker.
Through his process of thinking deeply about Drucker principles, Bruce developed and applied a forward focused mindset and created his own future today as the Managing Editor of Leader to Leader, author, speaker and Drucker expert. Rosenstein deftly crafts his work by identifying the fundamental aspects of Drucker’s vast body of work and expands it with thoughts of some of today’s leadership experts. Rosenstein identifies mindset, uncertainty, creation, inevitability, present moment, change, reflections, remove/improve; innovation/entrepreneurship and risk as quintessential elements to build the future mind in a well-defined and focused way.
Written in a highly engaging and self-directed style, this book leads the reader on a journey of self-discovery to conceive, create and innovate. Whether considering disruptions in society, the future that has already happened, being the change or building your future, Rosenstein says it’s important to have an open mind, cast a wide net and drill down to find what is relevant to the future. More importantly, read, discuss, listen and observe.
With the radical changes occurring globally in all facets of our lives, Bruce encourages us to reach beyond our grasp, become change agents, improve ourselves in small ways each day and be our own successor. As we accept transitions and transformations as a way of life, our forward focused mindset can lead us to beat our own personal best. A must for your library or organization!
BOTTOM LINE: Highly recommended for upper division level undergraduate through professionals and general readers. Extensive bibliography, web resources and index. Marianne E. Giltrud, MSLS
July 29, 2016
At the beginning of each year I take time to step away from day-to-day activities and assess the big picture. In other words, I reflect on where I want to go over the next 5-7 years, progress I’ve made over the prior year and what I would like to prioritize in the year ahead.
Peter Drucker’s writings have always stimulated my thinking during times of reflection and strategic thinking. He was a master at studying current trends and predicting where the world was headed.
This year, rather than reading Drucker, I read "Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way: Developing and Applying a Forward Focused Mindset" by Bruce Rosenstein. The author is an expert on Drucker and author of "Living in More Than One World: How Peter Drucker’s Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life." He is also managing editor of "Leader to Leader," the well-respected, award-winning leadership periodical.
Rosenstein’s book includes a variety of Drucker’s ideas that are especially applicable to personal strategic thinking and planning. Throughout the book Rosenstein elaborates on Drucker’s ideas and insights, and suggests complementary resources. In reading Rosenstein’s book I was introduced to new ways of thinking. I also discovered new books and websites that I’ve found valuable.
"Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way" is a helpful resource that I highly recommend.
Peter Drucker’s writings have always stimulated my thinking during times of reflection and strategic thinking. He was a master at studying current trends and predicting where the world was headed.
This year, rather than reading Drucker, I read "Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way: Developing and Applying a Forward Focused Mindset" by Bruce Rosenstein. The author is an expert on Drucker and author of "Living in More Than One World: How Peter Drucker’s Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life." He is also managing editor of "Leader to Leader," the well-respected, award-winning leadership periodical.
Rosenstein’s book includes a variety of Drucker’s ideas that are especially applicable to personal strategic thinking and planning. Throughout the book Rosenstein elaborates on Drucker’s ideas and insights, and suggests complementary resources. In reading Rosenstein’s book I was introduced to new ways of thinking. I also discovered new books and websites that I’ve found valuable.
"Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way" is a helpful resource that I highly recommend.
February 16, 2014
This book is a gateway to Drucker and other thinkers. I enjoyed Rosenstein's approach, looking at the way to think about the future on both an individual and organizational level. As someone who has not read a lot of Drucker, I was surprised at how much of his thinking I am already incorporating into my own career and management style. I had planned to read this book quickly, but found myself frequently spinning off into thought and developing my own new ideas. This also gave me a whole new list of readings and areas to explore. I expect this to become a key reference, and appreciate the last few sections giving lists of new resources. I highly recommend this book to help you frame your thinking about the future.
November 28, 2013
Bruce Rosenstein draws upon Peter F. Drucker's future-oriented mindset and Googolplex volume of work and weaves in the teaching from a select number of today's writers whose insights are Drucker compatible and delivers a navigational masterpiece for those of us who refuse to be lulled into present day currents of complacency and instead, choose to forge and create our own future.
July 21, 2016
Meditation, expansion, and inspiration. Serves up a surprising take on moving forward in your life.
April 26, 2017
Distilling Drucker is not easy and done exceptionally well in this book.
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