Deepen Your Knowledge of Peter Drucker With This New 20 Question Quiz

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Bruce Rosenstein
03/24/2022

How Well Do You Know Peter Drucker?

In my Corporate Learning Network post from May 20, 2021, I presented a 20 question quiz on the life and work of Peter Drucker. The quiz was inspired by a shorter one I developed for the Drucker Master Class that Dr. Bernard Jaworski of the Drucker School of Management and I presented for CLN earlier that year.

Whether or not you took the May 20, 2021 quiz, I’ve returned with 20 additional Drucker-related questions on many different aspects of his life and career. Ideally, it will provoke your thoughts about Drucker’s teaching, creative output and the fascinating people associated with him.

I hope you find the experience of working through this new quiz to be challenging, informative and fun!

Questions

Question 1:

Drucker wrote a classic 1985 book called Innovation and….

a. Management
b. Advertising
c. Entrepreneurship

Question 2:

Drucker’s 1978 memoir Adventures of a Bystander describes his boyhood meeting with which legendary figure?

a. Winston Churchill
b. Sigmund Freud
c. Marie Curie

Question 3:

In the above book, Drucker mentions freelance writing for which publication soon after emigrating to the United States in the late 1930s?

a. Los Angeles Times
b. The Washington Post
c. Boston Globe

Question 4:

Andy Grove, an iconic CEO and friend/admirer of Drucker, died in 2016. What was his company?

a. General Motors
b. Walmart
c. Intel

Question 5:

Which author wrote a 2007 book called The Definitive Drucker?

a. Elizabeth Haas Edersheim
b. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
c. Elizabeth Gilbert

Question 6:

Drucker consulted for many nonprofit institutions. Which one of the following did he not consult for?

a. American Red Cross
b. Girl Scouts of the USA
c. Wikimedia Foundation

Question 7:

Management Revised Edition, published in 2008, three years after Drucker’s death, mentions which British retailer on page 90?

a. Topshop
b. Marks & Spencer
c. Harrods

Question 8:

Which of the following is not a Drucker book title?

a. The Perfect Executive
b. Landmarks of Tomorrow
c. The Ecological Vision

Question 9:

Which of the following people did Drucker identify as an early 20th-century management studies pioneer?

a. Anita Roddick
b. Jane Mouton
c. Mary Parker Follett

Question 10:

Drucker’s longtime editor at Harper & Row was a legendary figure who also edited books by the novelists Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. What was this editor’s name?

a. Cass Canfield, Jr.
b. Maxwell Perkins
c. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Question 11:

Who wrote the foreword to The Daily Drucker?

a. Tom Peters
b. Simon Sinek
c. Jim Collins

Question 12:

Which author, a former dean of the Drucker School, wrote a chapter, “Drucker on Marketing: Remember, Customers Are the Reason You Are in Business,” in the 2010 compendium The Drucker Difference?

a. Jean Lipman-Blumen
b. Jenny Darroch
c. Roxane Spitzer

Question 13:

Fill in the blanks for this 1974 Drucker quote: "To know what a business is we have to start with its..."

a. purpose
b. shareholders
c. managers

Question 14:

Drucker’s longtime friend and consulting client Max De Pree was Chairman and CEO of Herman Miller, as well as a successful author. What is the title of his best-known book?

a. Leadership in the Office
b. Leadership Is An Art
c. The Leader of Tomorrow

Question 15:

Drucker was a good friend of which author/media theorist before he became famous?

a. Bennett Cerf
b. William F. Buckley
c. Marshall McLuhan

Question 16:

The 2013 book Drucker: A Life in Pictures contains a photo of a 1982 brief note of thanks to Drucker from which famous labor leader?

a. Cesar E. Chavez
b. George Meany
c. Bayard Rustin

Question 17:

In which institution did Drucker first teach after emigrating to the United States?

a. Oberlin College
b. Sarah Lawrence College
c. Swarthmore College

Question 18:

What was the original title of Drucker’s 1976 book The Pension Fund Revolution?