I was listening recently to a podcast hosted by Tim Ferriss who was interviewing the author of what I consider to be my bible of business books, Good to Great, Jim Collins.
One of topics discussed was age and Jim put this into huge perspective by chatting about his inspiration, Peter Drucker.
Jim was lucky enough to meet this giant of the management world and when he met him first Peter was 86 and still at full throttle.
Peter was a prolific writer and one of the most respected of his time and in many ways his writings about management are still held out as being ground breaking and as relevant today as they were when they were written.
Jim was sent an image of a bookshelf that was full of all of Drucker’s books and there was a line drawn across the image that marked the volume of books written when he was 65, the typical retirement age.
Incredibly, at 65 years of age Peter Drucker had written just one third of his books!!
Peter Drucker passed away in 2005 at the age of 92 – he wrote another 10 books since Jim had met him at the age of 86!
As I am nudging closer to another birthday (those numbers keep getting bigger!!) I keep telling myself that I am only at the beginning..
Thank you Peter Drucker…
Greg
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