Drucker Centennial Week Celebration

Monday, November 2 to Sunday, November 8, 2009

Celebrating the Life & Continuing the Work of Peter F. Drucker

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Thursday November 5
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Events:

Dr. Stephen R. Covey Centennial Event in Metro Los Angeles - 8:00am-11:00am
Dr. Stephen R. Covey Live on Campus! - 1:30-3:00pm
Conversation with Charles Handy - 9:00am-10:00am & 6:00pm-7:00pm
Frances Hesselbein – A Salon Conversation - 5:30pm-7:30pm


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Dr. Stephen R. Covey Centennial Event in Metro Los Angeles

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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Time
8:00am to 11:00am

Event Description & Schedule
Dr. Covey will deliver a compelling keynote to leaders from a cross section of business and social sector organizations. Hosted at the Los Angeles Central Public Library in metro Los Angeles.

8:00am to 9:00am – Continental breakfast.
9:00am to 10:30am – Keynote Address
10:30 am to 10:50am – Questions from audience.

Moderated by Dean Ira Jackson of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University.

Open to public. Free of charge. Registration required.

Venue & Location
Mark Taper Auditorium at LA Public Library
630 W. 5th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90071

Background:
Dr. Stephen Covey is recognized as one of Time magazine's 25 most influential Americans. He has over 20 million books sold in 38 languages. Dr. Covey’s book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” was named the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century. His latest book, “The 8th Habit” (2004), has sold nearly 400,000 copies.

Dr. Covey is the recipient of the International Entrepreneur of the Year Award and International Man of Peace Award. He is also co-founder of FranklinCovey, a global professional-services firm and specialty-retailer selling both training and productivity-tools to individuals and to organizations. Their mission statement reads: "We enable greatness in people and organizations everywhere".

Dr. Covey received his MBA from Harvard University and his doctorate degree from Brigham Young University.

Sponsors:

We are grateful to KPCC 89.3 FM for their generous support.
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Dr. Stephen R. Covey Live on Campus!

Thursday, November 5, 2009
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Time:
1:30pm to 3:00pm

Event Description
Dr. Covey will deliver a keynote address to the Claremont community, preceded by a lunch Q & A gathering with representative members of the Drucker and Claremont faculties, plus leadership from the student body, alumni, and local community.

The keynote is open to the public. Free of charge. Registration required.

Venue & Location

Keynote Address 1:30pm to 3:00pm
Balch Auditorium
9th and Columbia,
1030 Columbia Ave. Claremont, CA 91711.
Open to public. Free of charge.

Background:

Dr. Stephen Covey is recognized as one of Time magazine's 25 most influential Americans. He has over 20 million books sold in 38 languages. Dr. Covey’s book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, was named the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century. His latest book, “The 8th Habit” (2004), has sold nearly 400,000 copies.

Dr. Covey is the recipient of the International Entrepreneur of the Year Award and International Man of Peace Award. He is also co-founder of FranklinCovey, a global professional-services firm and specialty-retailer selling both training and productivity-tools to individuals and to organizations. Their mission statement reads: "We enable greatness in people and organizations everywhere".

Dr. Covey received his MBA from Harvard University and his doctorate degree from Brigham Young University.
For information on Dr. Covey: <https://www.stephencovey.com/>

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Conversation with Charles Handy

Thursday, November 5, 2009

This event is full - please go through the registration process to be put on the waiting list.

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Event Description: Charles will meet with students, leading a conversation on 'What Peter Drucker Taught Me' interwoven with reflections on 'The Day After Tomorrow - What I See Coming in Our World.' Charles will speak for part of the time, then engage the group in a fertile conversation.

Venue & Location

Founders room at Honnold
800 N. Dartmouth
Claremont, CA 91711.
Open to public. Space is limited.
Registration is required.

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Background

Charles Handy is a globally renowned business expert and is often regarded as Britain’s greatest management thinker. He is the author of many business and management books, including: Understanding Organizations, The Future of Work, and The Gods of Management, among others.

Mr. Handy is a co-founder of the London Business School, the first business school in the United Kingdom. He has been an executive, a theorist, a management thinker and a student of business all his life. In 2008, Mr. Handy taught the Odyssey Course at The Drucker School while serving as a Scholar in Residence. Charles will be joined by his wife, Liz Handy. Liz is an accomplished photographer and worked along with Charles in the Odyssey Course.



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Frances Hesselbein - A Salon Conversation

Thursday, November 5, 2009 5:30pm – 7:30pm

Event Description
An intimate, salon-style conversation with Frances Hesselbein on the future of education, animated by Professor Jean Lipman-Blumen.

Invite Only. Refreshments served. Registration required.

Venue & Location
Hosted at the Pasadena home of Professor Jean Lipman-Blumen

Background:
Frances Hesselbein is the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Leader to Leader Institute (formerly the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management) and served as its founding President. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998. The award recognized her leadership as CEO of Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. (1976-1990), her role as the founding President of the Drucker Foundation, and her service as "a pioneer for women, diversity, and inclusion.“

Frances serves on many nonprofit and private sector corporate boards, including the Board of the Mutual of America Life Insurance Company, New York, the Veterans of Corporation Advisory Board, the Boards of the Center for Social Initiative at the Harvard Business School, the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Management at the Kennedy School, and U.C.S.D. graduate school of International Relations and Pacific Studies. She is the recipient of twenty honorary doctoral degrees.
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