The Late, Great Peter Drucker Comes Back to Life

I was lucky enough to meet the great thinker Peter Drucker in 1996 and again in 2004, about a year before his death. Both visits were to his modest home in Claremont, Calif. All who visited Drucker have brought up the house. One would walk up and down Wellesley Drive in a state of confusion, wondering if the small house at 636, with the two Toyotas in the driveway, could really belong to Drucker. This couldn’t be where Drucker advised the leaders of Procter & Gamble, GE and IBM, among others; wrote his books; crafted his speeches; and strengthened the pillars of Western civilization. Could it?