Peter F. Drucker - Personal Professional Career Model

Nick, your humble servant's model is the late, great Peter F. Drucker, Father of Management Science, who died in 2005 in his nineties.  Drucker taught, wrote, and consulted.  This is a sane mix.  It is also insurance against one or the other income streams going dry.  Drucker ended up at the Claremont Graduate School in LA.  He himself had a Ph.D. from the U of Vienna, Austria in economics!  He migrated to the USA to avoid the Nazis when they grabbed Austria.  In fact, one of my professors at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, the late Donald McIsaac, literally studied with Drucker when McIsaac pursued his Ph.D. at Claremont!  I was blessed to have McIsaac as a key member of my dissertation committee.  Sadly, he died young of heart failure; I do keep contact with his widow out of respect for his help to me.   She also earned a Ph.D. at Madison, and she was one of McIsaac`s students.  She and he, in turn, founded a fabulous software company called Xyte, which now employs 40 persons and rising as I write.  So you can see that McIsaac followed Drucker.  He too was an academic, but he also was a business man.  He did not write for publication, but he had one foot in theory and the other in real-world practice.  Today, more than ever, we need to maintain options, as you undoubtedly know.  Think Drucker.  Your humble servant here does.  I hope you find this helpful.  Dr. Rux