Living in More Than One World

by Rosenstein, Bruce

• ISBN13: 9781576759684
• ISBN10: 1576759687
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-02
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Summary

How can we have a rich and fulfilling life? For Peter Drucker, one of the most influential thinkers of modern times, the secret was "living in more than one world"-enjoying a diverse set of interests, activities, acquaintances, and pursuits. Drucker was able to do this despite extraordinary demands on his time, and now Bruce Rosenstein shows how the man who transformed organizational management can transform the way you manage your personal and professional life. An enormously influential business author and consultant, Drucker also wrote extensively on self-development and self- management, but these writings are scattered throughout dozens of books and articles. For the first time Rosenstein brings these ideas together into a straightforward framework that guides you in building a multifaceted life and career. It's the next best thing to being mentored by Drucker himself. Rosenstein shares Drucker's advice for, first, honing in on your core competencies-developing your main talents, clarifying your values, and managing your time. With this firm foundation established he uses Drucker as both source and example to show how to enrich your life by developing parallel and second careers, making a difference in the lives of others through voluntarism and service, and using teaching and lifelong learning as complimentary ways of staying engaged and up to date.

Author Biography

Bruce Rosenstein is a journalist and research librarian. He was with USA Today, in McLean, Virginia, for twenty-one years, until the final stages of writing Living in More Than One World. He was the “embedded Librarian” in the News section, and regularly wrote about business and management books for the newspaper’s Money section.
He wrote about and interviewed Peter Drucker extensively for USA Today, and wrote a series of columns about him in 2001–2002 for Information Outlook, the publication of the Special Libraries Association/SLA. He has studied Drucker’s work for more than twenty years.
In addition to USA Today and Information Outlook, Bruce has written for such publications as Leader to Leader, ON- LINE, Library Journal, News Library News, and ARSC Journal, a music publication. He scripted and selected the recordings for a weekly rock music radio program heard worldwide on ��e Voice of America, from 1974 to 1988.
He is also a lecturer in the Catholic University of America’s School of Library and Information Science, in Washington, D.C.
Bruce has a BA in Communications from the American University in Washington, D.C., and an MSLS from the Catholic University of America’s School of Library and Information Science.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Frances Hesselbein
Preface
Chapter 1: Designing Your Total Life
Chapter 2: Developing Your Core Competencies
Chapter 3: Creating Your Future
Chapter 4: Exercising Your Generosity
Chapter 5: Teaching and Learning
Conclusion: Launching Your Journey
Suggested Readings
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author