A. 亞佛瑞‧史隆（Alfred Sloan）所著的《我與通用汽車》（My Years with General Motors），這是我推薦所有管理者閱讀的書。而管理者需要在經濟學、心理學以及政治科學方面多所涉獵。」
We tend to think of Drucker as forever old, a gnomic and mysterious elder. At least I always did. His speech, always slow and measured, was forever accented in that commanding Viennese. His wisdom could not have come from anyone who was young. So it's easy to forget his dashing youth, his long devotion to one woman and their four children (until the end, Drucker still greeted his wife of 71 years with an effusive "Hello, my darling!"), or even his deliciously self-deprecating sense of play.
"Zum Sehen Geboren; Zum Schauen Bestellt" (Born to See; Meant to Look) sings the look-out in Goethe's Faust. This, I think, is the motto of the social ecologist ...
(Richard Brem A little bit of nitpicking -- Drucker was actually quoting Goethe here. It's a famous line from the 'Lied des Lynkeus' or 'Türmerlied' (Song of Lynceus, the Watchman) in the third act of 'Faust, Part 2':
'Zum Sehen geboren / Zum Schauen bestellt / Dem Turme geschworen / Gefällt mir die Welt' (in English also sometimes translated as: 'To see I was born / To look is my call / To the tower sworn / I delight in all'))
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2015.10.14，我在紀念W. Edwards Deming的講座上要談 Peter Drucker 與Dr. Deming 在紐約大學商學院的交往。
Peter Drucker 生前出書約40本，有早年傳記《旁觀者》。不過我認為1993年出版的The Ecological Vision 《社會生態學的靈視》也很可以看出他的本色： Peter Drucker自稱為一位社會生態學家，詳下。
The Ecological Vision (1993)第8部的引言。它說一輩子的文章探討的是社會。不過他18-19歲，1928年在工讀時，讀到齊克果《恐懼與顫抖》，醒悟到人還有更基本的「存在」的維度。他「希望」在他一輩子成功的「社會」方面的論述之後，還可進而指出其理論的限制。
****** Peter Drucker 說這寓言取自Chaucer的作品，不過我多年來未找到其出處：
Is your team cutting rocks or building a cathedral?
You’ll have heard the story, I’m quite certain. In short, this simple tale features three stonemasons, each doing the tedious, back-breaking job of carving rocks. The first one is cutting rocks because he needs the money. The second is doing the job because he perceives himself to be the best stone-cutter around. The third is hammering away with zeal and, when asked what he is doing, answers with ‘I am building a cathedral.’
This ‘Parable of the Three Stonecutters’, made famous by Peter F Drucker in his 1954 book, ‘The Practice of Management’, remains one of the most powerful illustrations of the challenges faced by Leaders today: how do you create the environment within which your stonemasons are motivated to reach beyond the task in hand and connect with the broader vision?
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Peter Drucker： The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition
One of the most knowledgable and also influential management theorists, the famouis, late Peter Drucker, had a few sentences as follows, which revealed his true diciplines: a multiple-diciplined philosopher:
For Kiekegaard, human existence is possible only in tension--in tension between man's simultaneous life as an individual in the spirit and as a citizen in society.
"Faith is the highest passion in a man. There are perhaps many in every generation who do not even reach it, but no one gets further." --from "Fear and Trembling" (1843) by Soren Kierkegaard
Now recognized as one of the nineteenth century's leading psychologists and philosophers, Kierkegaard was among other things the harbinger of exisentialisim. In Fear and Trembling he explores the psychology of religion, addressing the question 'What is Faith?' in terms of the emotional and psychological relationship between the individual and God. But this difficult question is addressed in the most vivid terms, as Kierkegaard explores different ways of interpreting the ancient story of Abraham and Isaac to make his point. Søren Kierkegaard not only transformed Protestant theology but also anticipated twentieth-century existentialism and provided it with many of its motifs. Fear and Trembling and The Book on Adler–addressed to a general audience–have the imaginative excitement and intense personal appeal of the greatest literature. Only Plato and Nietzsche have matched Kierkegaard’s ability to give ideas so compellingly vivid and dramatic a shape. Translated by Walter Lowrie.
Soren Kierkegaard: Google doodle marks 200th birthday of Danish philosopher, here's what you need to know about him
Kierkegaard is widely considered as the first existentialist philosopher and has influenced the likes of Albert Camus and Franz Kafka
Søren Kierkegaard's 200th birthday has been virtually marked with a Google doodle today.
The Danish philosopher - who died in November 1855 aged 42 - is widely considered as the first existentialist philosopher, with many of his works focusing on how life should be lived as a "single individual".
Consequently, his work often highlighted the importance of personal choice and commitment and of 'truth as subjectivity'.
The Google doodle depicts six characters - five of whom are holding outsized quills - spelling out the search engine giant's name. Two figures each have an arm outstretched, bent at the elbow, and have their heads held up as if contemplating something other than their task.
One of the characters also seems to be addressing the sixth figure, standing slightly away, who does not hold a quill.
Kierkegaard, who was raised as a Lutheran, gained considerable fame for his work in the 1930s and has had an enduring influence on subsequent generations of philosophers and writers.
Just some of the artists was have been inspired and influenced by Kierkegaard's notions of angst, despair and the importance of the individual include Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, W.H Auden, Don DeLillo, Franz Kafka, J.D Salinger and Malcolm Muggeridge.
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