Together with his wife Doris, with whom he has four children, Drucker has lived since then in Claremont, a little piece of New England in the middle of the desert landscape of Greater Los Angeles. Drucker values the mild climate during the winter months and the varied landscape: There are many types of desert in the area, Joshua Tree National Park is nearby, and the mountains are also not far away - Drucker has been a passionate mountain-climber his whole life; already as a child and youth, he went climbing in the Dolomites with his parents; only a few years ago did he and his wife have to give up mountain-climbing for reasons of health.

Peter and Doris Drucker live in the vicinity of Claremont Graduate University, in a in a well-kept detached family house that the American business magazine Forbes described in a 1997 cover story as "utterly unpretentious." Here, in a roomy study flooded with light, Peter F. Drucker's articles and books are written. Unlike his wife, an entrepreneurs who has a computer in her study, Peter Drucker still does his work with a typewriter.

At 92, Drucker is still highly productive: A few weeks ago, the Essential Drucker anthology came out, for which Drucker personally made a representative selection from his extensive published work. In the last few months, Drucker has written three major essays: "Globalization - What Is All The Fuss About" will likely be published in the Atlantic Monthly; "People Are Our Greatest Liability" (a pun on the human resource mantra "People are our greatest asset") will tentatively appear in the Harvard Business Review. The third essay, which Drucker recently finished, carries the thematic title "The Next Society" and will be published in the English Economist in mid-December. "The Next Society" will also be the title of Drucker's next essay collection to be published in spring, 2002.

Drucker's last book Management Challenges for the 21st Century appeared in 1999, just prior to his 90th birthday. It deals especially with the effects of the new information technologies and the art of self-management. Drucker finds the latter to be necessary, as in the future employees will survive their companies or organizations, and for most people, the life-long learning of new skills and occupations will become the rule: "Managing Oneself is a REVOLUTION in human affairs. It requires new and unprecedented things from the individual, and especially from the knowledge worker. For in effect it demands that each knowledge think and behave as a Chief Executive Officer."

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