One evening when I was Drucker’s student I was sitting at a table for six at an evening meal break from our classroom instruction. I sat in the middle on one side of a rectangular table with Peter sitting on my right. My classmate sitting on my left introduced me to a new student sitting opposite him . "Bill, this is Joe Smith. He’s a vice president at your sister company, Douglas Aircraft." Douglas Aircraft Company was located in Long Beach, California, only a few miles away from McDonnell Doug...
