“while I was interested in the behavior of people”
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Peter Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker was an Austrian American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of modern management theory. He was also a leader in the development of management education, and contributed to the popularization of the concepts known as management by objectives and self-control, and he has been described as "th…
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business · American management consultant and author (1909–2005) · columnist · economist · writer · university teacher · journalist · lawyer · sculptor · businessperson · philosopher · business manager · also Peter Drucker, Peter F. Drucker, Peter Ferdinand Drucker, Drucker
Born 19 November 1909 · Died 11 November 2005 · Q84238
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2026· 2 entries
“The Jewish Question in Germany”
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2025· 1 entry
Yahoo: What would Peter Drucker, father of modern management, have to say about AI?
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2022· 1 entry
Forbes: Peter Drucker: Prophet Of Stakeholder Capitalism
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2021· 1 entry
Business Wire: Peter Drucker Society Europe Appoints Sunil Prashara of Project Management Institute to International Advisory Board
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2018· 1 entry
Drucker was named the world's most influential business thinker on the Thinkers50
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2009· 2 entries
ZDNet: Peter Drucker's legacy: take responsibility, take action, take a stand
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The centenary of Drucker's birth
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2005· 8 entries
Inc: Peter Drucker: An “Intellectual Compass”
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Died 2005-11-11.
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Peter Drucker died of natural causes in Claremont, California, aged 95
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“The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.”
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On November 11, 2005, Peter Drucker died of natural causes in Claremont, California, aged 95.
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“A primeira tarefa a cargo da ciência da administração, se ela desejar prestar sua contribuição e não confundir e iludir, será a de definir a natureza específica de sua própria matéria.”
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“O que os administradores precisam, para serem aceitos como autoridade legítima, é de um princípio de moralidade.”
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“Através de sua retórica, os administradores tornaram impossível ao público compreender a realidade econômica.”
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2002· 1 entry
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by George W. Bush (2002).
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University Polytechnic of Catalonia (1990).
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1987· 2 entries
And continues to be guided by Drucker's principles
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And reported that he was sometimes loose with the facts
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Miami (1986).
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1979· 1 entry
“Adventures of the Brush: Japanese Paintings”
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1974· 1 entry
The Grand Gold Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria in 1991 and the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class in 1999 and the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 3rd class; June 24, 1966, from the g
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1973· 1 entry
“that in modern society there is no other leadership group but managers. If the managers of our major institutions, and especially of business, do not take responsibility for the common good, no one else can or will.”
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1971· 1 entry
Where he developed one of the country's first executive MBA programs for working professionals at Claremont Graduate University (then known as Claremont Graduate School)
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1969· 1 entry
Was awarded New York University's highest honor, its Presidential Citation
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1959· 2 entries
Won Henry Laurence Gantt Medal (1959).
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Drucker coined the term "knowledge worker", and later in his life considered knowledge-worker productivity to be the next frontier of management
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1954· 1 entry
Drucker wrote The Practice of Management, a book he set out to write after finding a lack of books specifically about business management at the General Electric library in Crotonville, New York
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1950· 1 entry
“s health but more importantly to full employment. Management could achieve sustainable profits only by treating employees like valuable resources. That, he argued, required decentralizing the power to make decisions, including giving hourly workers more control over factory life, and guaranteed wages. In the 1950”
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1945· 1 entry
“The Concept of the Corporation”
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1943· 3 entries
Brown invited him in to conduct what might be called a "political audit": a two-year social-scientific analysis of the corporation
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“The Future of Industrial Man”
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Drucker became a naturalized citizen of the United States
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1942· 1 entry
When his initial writings on politics and society won him access to the internal workings of General Motors (GM), one of the largest companies in the world at that time
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1941· 1 entry
After refusing to sign a faculty manifesto that he said "viciously and falsely attacked the liberal president of Brooklyn College, Harry Gideonse," who had supported the UK against Nazi Germany in the Battle of Britain
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1939· 3 entries
“The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism”
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Drucker joined Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York as a part-time economics instructor
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Published a contemporary analysis of the rise of fascism called "The End of Economic Man"
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1937· 2 entries
Peter Drucker married Doris Schmitz in 1937; they had four children.
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Peter Drucker married Doris Schmitz, a classmate from the University of Frankfurt
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1933· 1 entry
Drucker was a lecturer at Frankfurt when the Nazi regime took over
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1927· 1 entry
Drucker found few opportunities for employment in post-World War I Vienna, so he moved to Hamburg, Germany, first working as an apprentice at an established cotton trading company, then as a journalist, writing for Der Ö
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1909· 1 entry
Born 1909-11-19.
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