As an editor and writer, I was fortunate to have several opportunities to interview Peter Drucker, deemed "the father of modern management," who died in 2005 but whose ideas continue to influence leaders today.

A longtime professor at the Peter F. Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, Drucker was noted for his practical wisdom about life and career. The nearly two decades since his death has been a time of much cultural upheaval, so I wondered what advice he might have had for young workers starting out today.

While Drucker himself is not alive to share his ever-evolving philosophy, I did the next best thing: I called on AI to respond as Drucker might to several questions I never got to ask him. It took three tries to get sufficiently nuanced replies.

If you could meet your 27-year-old self, the year before you immigrated from Europe to the United States, what would you tell him about how things worked out over the course of your career?

That life rarely unfolds as planned, but that its course is shaped by opportunities seized, values upheld, and the willingness........

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