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Included among speakers at the conference are Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld '66; Peter F. Drucker, honorary chair of the Peter Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management.; Robert Erburu, chair of the J. Paul Getty Trust and former CEO of Times Mirror Company; and Millard Fuller, former president of the International Habitat For Humanity...
...press and on the best-seller lists, run the professional gamut: from pop-culture chroniclers like Faith Popcorn ("cocooning") and Douglas Rushkoff (Cyberia) through digital-media stars like M.I.T.'s Nicholas Negroponte and the Institute for the Future's Paul Saffo to buttoned-down management gurus like Peter Drucker and John Naisbitt (Megatrends...
...generation of the '60s -- were inspired by the ``bards and hot- gospellers of technology,'' as business historian Peter Drucker described media maven Marshall McLuhan and technophile Buckminster Fuller. And we bought enthusiastically into the exotic technologies of the day, such as Fuller's geodesic domes and psychoactive drugs like LSD. We learned from them, but ultimately they turned out to be blind alleys. Most of our generation scorned computers as the embodiment of centralized control. But a tiny contingent -- later called ``hackers'' -- embraced computers and set about transforming them into tools of liberation. That turned out to be the true...
...Management in the U.S., it seems to me, is too Druckerized," says Smith, now an experienced student of the process. The management philosophies embodied in the works of Peter Drucker, he observes, "may make mature industries work more efficiently, but that does nothing to build new engines...
...unusual suggests, in effect, that there was something abnormal about them. On the other hand, to treat them as ordinary human beings is to argue that altruism is accessible to anyone -- saints and sinners alike. "It tells you that you don't have to be Mother Teresa," Drucker says. "You don't have to be a better person than you already are in order to do good." Turning protectors into paragons would let the rest of humanity off the hook...