• Living in more than one world; with diverse people, activities and pursuits
• Working for or with nonprofits can help your main career by what you learn from people you would not have met otherwise
• Developing your core competencies by strengthening your areas of personal excellence at work and outside of it (including how to prioritze your life's activities
• Nonprofits experience can deepen and expand your competencies
• Creating your future through what you do today
• Including creating parallel and second careers in nonprofits or religious institutions
  
• Exercising your generosity through work with nonprofits, social entrepreneurship, mentoring and servant leadership
  
• Giving back and paying forward in this realm can increase your sense of meaning and purpose, and may create leadership opportunities not possible in your daily work
• Teaching and Learning:
• including volunteer teaching with nonprofits, churches and professional associations. Drucker said no one learns his subject as well as the person who must teach it

SPECIAL FEATURE OF THIS PROGRAM: Bruce will show and discuss a 21-minute video of his interview with Peter Drucker, conducted in Claremont, California, seven months to the day before Drucker died in 2005. Drucker shared his wisdom about management, knowledge work and especially how to lead a contented, satisfying life. This will give you, if you attend, even more insight into Drucker's views and how you can apply them to help your career, business, or nonprofits. You can view a 4 ½ minute trailer of the interview at Bruce's website, BruceRosentein.com by clicking here.

Peter Drucker was known as “the father of modern management.” But he moved freely in worlds beyond management. He lived to be 95, and conducted a remarkable 70 year career in writing, teaching and consulting. Several years before his death, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. He and Doris Drucker (author of the wonderful memoir Invent Radium Or I'll Pull Your Hair (University of Chicago Press, 2004) were married for sixty-eight years, with four children and six grandchildren.

He published more than 40 books (most of them after he turned 65), selling millions of copies worldwide. Drucker was a trusted adviser to Fortune 500 companies such as General Electric and Procter & Gamble, and also to nonprofit organizations, such as the Girl Scouts of the USA and the Salvation Army.

He was a professor beloved and highly respected by his students for more than 60 years. His educational and institutional legacy lives on at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and The Drucker Institute, both in Claremont, California. He taught at the Drucker School from 1971-2003; the school was named after him in 1987.

A Sampler of Peter Drucker Quotes:
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

The prevailing belief that is management must be brilliant, but I say that management must be conscientious.
Brilliance is a surface quality. What matters is what's underneath.

Very few things in this world are cast-iron; most things are papier-mache.

You should create a mission that is so simple it fits on a T-shirt.