An excerpt from the Harvard Business Review Editor's Blog, "Drucker at 100: What Will You do Differently on Monday?" by Ellen Peebles: 

"Yesterday's conversation was energizing. It was the kickoff of a series of events highlighting the contributions of management guru Peter Drucker, a tireless advocate of responsible management who would have turned 100 next month. Hosted by Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley and cosponsored by the Drucker Institute, the conversation was structured around the four unique responsibilities of the CEO as outlined in by Lafley's HBR article, What Only the CEO Can Do and sprung from Drucker's early musings on the topic a year before his death in 2005. As is his habit — learned from Peter Drucker — A.G. Lafley concluded each discussion segment with a question: What will you do differently on Monday?

The answers from this group of business leaders were inspiring. Participants spoke fervently of a renewed passion for purpose and values, a sense of responsibility to local and global community, and of a new generation entering the workplace with what appears to be a level of desire to serve and give back to a degree we haven't seen since the 1930s and 1940s. Warren Bennis has dubbed them the "crucible generation," with good reason. After a period of relative peace in the United States, these kids entered adolescence fearing terror and war, along with the uncertainty associated with the breakdown of the global economic system--not to mention the frightening implications of global warming. Little wonder there's an activist sentiment brewing. Frances Hesselbein told the group that these youngsters give her hope — hope that they'll fix the messes brought about by their predecessors."

Read the full article on the HBR Blog.