Michael Crichton vs. Peter Drucker
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Michael Crichton
1942 – 2008
John Michael Crichton was an American author, screenwriter and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavily feature technology and are usually within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres.
"In a sense that is a part of the training: surgeons are lonely men."
Peter Drucker
1909 – 2005
Peter Ferdinand Drucker was an Austrian American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of modern management theory. He was also a leader in the development of management education, and contributed to the popularization of the concepts known as management by objectives and self-control, and he has been described as "the champion of management as a serious discipline".
"The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be l…"
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