Opening General Session
Closing General Session
Monday, June 10
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Wednesday, June 12
9:00 am - 11:30 am
Peter Drucker
Management Guru
Originator of groundbreaking concepts that are foundations of modern management, Drucker will enlighten you with his unconventional exploration of the history of managerial innovation and his ideas for the future.
A published author since 1938 with The End of Economic Man, it was Drucker's third book, Concept of the Corporation, which brought him into the limelight. This landmark study of General Motors detailed what is "management by objective." Since it's publication, in which he introduced such innovative ideas as the rise of the knowledge worker, the transition from assembly line to flexible production and empowerment, Dr. Drucker has pursued a career of management study, advice, consulting and speaking.
Drucker gives you insight into maximizing the knowledge base and consequently the success of your organization; the evolution of management practices as it responds to monumental social change; how to apply new management practices to secure your organization's future in the information age. He teaches that you must figure out how to use data, not just gather it.
His many books include The New Realities, On the Profession of Management, Managing the Nonprofit Organization and Managing for the Future: The 1990s and Beyond. His latest book is entitled Management Challenges for the 21st Century.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
Pulitzer Prize Winning Author
Award Winning Journalist
As assistant to President Lyndon Johnson during his last year in the White House, Doris Kearns Goodwin was there while history was being made. She later assisted Johnson on the preparation of his memoirs, Lyndon Johnson & The American Dream. It became a New York Times bestseller and Book of The Month Club selection.
In 1987, The Fitzgeralds and The Kennedys: An American Saga was a New York Times bestseller for five months. It won The Literary Guild and numerous other awards. In 1990, it was made into a six-hour miniseries that aired on ABC TV.
Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir was published in 1997. Her tale of growing up in the 1950s and her love of the Brooklyn Dodgers became a New York Times bestseller and Book of the Month Club selection.
She is a regular panelist on PBS's The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and a frequent commentator on NBC and MSNBC. She also has been a consultant and on-air person for PBS documentaries on LBJ, the Kennedy family, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ken Burns' The History of Baseball.
She is the winner of the Charles Frankel Prize given by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Sara Josepha Hale medal. And she is the first woman to enter Major League Baseball's Boston Red Sox locker room.
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