Drucker-JAIMS Inaugural Roundtable Focuses on Leadership for the New Millennium

HONOLULU—The Drucker-JAIMS Inaugural Roundtable on leadership for the new millennium just concluded in Hawaii, January 12-14, 2000. Highlighted by Peter F. Drucker’s presentation on "drivers" for the new millennium to the Roundtable participants, more than 42 participants from the United States, Japan, China, Australia, Brazil and Mexico discussed and debated corporate governance, competitive strategy in an era of globalization, and knowledge productivity in organizations.

Led by honorary co-chairs Chairman Tadashi Sekizawa of Fujitsu Limited and Chairman David Heenan of The Estate of James Campbell, and facilitated by faculty from the Peter F. Drucker School of Management and Hitotsubashi University, the Roundtable participants overwhelming indicated that sharing perspectives with colleagues from different countries signaled the excitement and challenges that globalization is bringing to the table of every corporation or organization, regardless of origin. The participants found that corporate governance may be converging and businesses on both sides of the Pacific need to take this into account in mergers and alliances.

Roundtable presenters included Cornelis A. de Kluyver, dean of the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management; Richard Ellsworth, professor of management and co-director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Leadership at the Drucker School; Ikujiro Nonaka, founding dean of the Graduate School of Knowledge Science at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and the Xerox Distinguished Professor of Knowledge at Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley; Vijay Sathe, professor of management at the Drucker School; and Hirotaka Takeuchi, dean of the Graduate School of International Business Strategy at Hitotsubashi University.

JAIMS, in partnership with the Peter F. Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, served as the hosting organization for this prestigious group of business and community leaders. Governor Benjamin Cayetano of Hawaii provided a proclamation for the event, and The First Lady of Hawaii, Vicky Cayetano, was a Roundtable participant.

Details to follow later as the organizers sort out the myriad of ideas and issues that emerged from the executives, who came from both profit and nonprofit organizations.