Books extolling Peter Drucker, the so-called "father of modern management," still stream out of major publishing houses at the rate of about one every three months. The latest is "A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World's Greatest Management Teacher," written by William A. Cohen, the master's former star student at Claremont University.
In an amazing coincidence of common sense, a rare commodity in many enterprises, Drucker's management principles emphasized in Cohen's new book often coincide with the real-life practices of acclaimed baseball manager Tommy Lasorda, as explained in his new book, "I Live for This." Given his lack of formal education after high school, it is safe to assume Lasorda never studied or ever heard of Drucker.