Acknowledgments

I first want to thank Bob Buford. Bob is the founder of Leadership Network and the Halftime Institute, and an author of numerous books including the best-selling book Halftime and the recently released book Drucker & Me.

Bob gave me access to recordings and transcripts of what is referred to in the book as “The Drucker-Buford Dialogue Project.” The dialogue is a series of mentoring consultations between Bob and Peter Drucker, and includes consultations with a number of other leaders in private and social sector organizations. These consultations took place from 1984 to September 2005, the last one just two months before Drucker’s death on November 11, 2005. Bob and his assistant Derek Bell provided me with available source ...

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