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Early Years
Peter Drucker was born in Vienna, Austria on November 19, 1909. The household in
which he grew up was one of great intellectual ferment. His parents, Adolph and
Caroline, regularly held evening salons with economists (including Joseph
Schumpeter, who would come to have a tremendous influence on Drucker),
politicians, musicians, writers and scientists. “That was actually my education,”
Drucker later said.
1920s
Drucker moved from Austria to Germany to study admiralty law at Hamburg
University before transferring to Frankfurt University, where he studied law at
night. He also became senior editor in charge of foreign affairs and business at
Frankfurt’s largest daily newspaper, the Frankfurter General-Anzeiger.
1930s
Drucker received his PhD in international law from Frankfurt University in 1932.
Three years later, he moved to England after two of his essays—one on Friedrich
Julius Stahl, a leading German philosopher, and a second, The Jewish Question in
Germany—were banned and burned by the Nazis. In Cambridge, Drucker attended a
lecture by leading economist John Maynard Keynes, and there had an epiphany: “I
suddenly realized that Keynes and all the brilliant economic students in the room
were interested in the behavior of commodities while I was interested in the
behavior of people.” In 1934, Drucker married Doris Schmitz. They moved to the
United States in 1937. Drucker served as a correspondent for several British
newspapers, including the Financial Times. He eventually began teaching economics
part time at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.
Title published in the 1930s
The End of Economic Man
1940s
Drucker’s invitation to take a close peek inside General Motors resulted in the
publication of his landmark book Concept of the Corporation in 1946. It was during
this engagement that Drucker met legendary GM Chairman Alfred Sloan, who
would in many ways become Drucker’s model for the effective executive. “The chief
executive must be…absolutely tolerant and pay no attention to how a man does his
work, let alone whether he likes a man or not,” Sloan told him. “The only criteria
must be performance and character.” Drucker also became professor of philosophy
and politics at Bennington College.
Titles published in the 1940s
The Future of Industrial Man
Concept of the Corporation
1950s
In 1950, Drucker joined the faculty of New York University as professor of
management; he would work there for 21 years. He also began his formal consulting
practice and took on major assignments with Sears, Roebuck and IBM, among
others. In 1954, he published The Practice of Management, widely considered the first
book to organize the art and science of running an organization into an integrated
body of knowledge. Before this, you could find books on individual aspects of
managing a business—finance, for example, or human resources. But there was
nothing that pieced it all together. What was out there “reminded me of a book on
human anatomy that would discuss one joint in the body—the elbow, for instance—
without even mentioning the arm, let alone the skeleton and musculature,” Drucker
later recalled. By the time he began work on The Practice of Management, then,
Drucker was, as he described it, “very conscious of the fact that I was laying the
foundations of a discipline.” In 1959, Drucker coined the term “knowledge work,”
foreshadowing a new economy in which brains would trump brawn.
Titles published in the 1950s
The New Society
The Practice of Management
America’s Next Twenty Years
The Landmarks of Tomorrow
1960s
Drucker received the Presidential Citation at NYU, the school’s highest honor. He
published the classic The Effective Executive in 1966. (Forty-two years later the Kalima
project, which aims to increase the choice of books available to readers in Arabic,
would choose The Effective Executive as one of the first 100 titles it translated, along
with The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard
Keynes, The Aeneid by Virgil and The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein.) In
1968’s The Age of Discontinuity, Drucker wrote of a burgeoning phenomenon that, in
hindsight, sounds an awful lot like Internet culture: “The impact of cheap, reliable,
fast, and universally available information will easily be as great as was the impact
of electricity. Certainly young people, a few years hence, will use information
systems as their normal tools, much as they now use the typewriter or the
telephone.”
Titles published in the 1960s
Managing for Results
The Effective Executive
The Age of Discontinuity
1970s
In 1973, Drucker authored his magnum opus, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities,
Practices, which would become the playbook for generations of corporate executives,
nonprofit managers and government leaders. Some have likened it to the Physicians’
Desk Reference for managers. In 1971, Drucker became the Marie Rankin Clarke
Professor of Social Science and Management at what was then called Claremont
Graduate School. He also began a 20-year tenure as a monthly columnist for The Wall
Street Journal.
Titles published in the 1970s
Technology, Management and Society
The New Markets and Other Essays
Men, Ideas and Politics
Drucker on Management
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
The Unseen Revolution
People and Performance: The Best of Peter Drucker on Management
Adventures of a Bystander
1980s
The Claremont Graduate Center of Management was renamed the Peter F. Drucker
Management Center in 1987. Drucker published eight new titles during the decade
in addition to maintaining active teaching and consulting activities. In 1989, he
produced The Nonprofit Drucker, a five-volume audio series featuring insights into
the management of the social sector.
Titles published in the 1980s
Managing in Turbulent Times
Toward the Next Economics and Other Essays
The Changing World of the Executive
The Last of All Possible Worlds (fiction)
The Temptation to Do Good (fiction)
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Frontiers of Management
The New Realities
1990s
The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management (today called the
Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute) was established in 1990. Drucker delivered
the prestigious Godkin Lecture at Harvard University in 1994. The Drucker Center
became the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management in 1997, and the
Drucker Archives (a repository for Drucker’s manuscripts, letters and other material)
was inaugurated in 1998. At the age of 87, Drucker was featured on the cover
of Forbes under the headline: “Still the Youngest Mind.”
Titles published in the 1990s
Managing the Nonprofit Organization: Principles and Practices
Managing for the Future
The Ecological Vision
Post-Capitalist Society
Managing in a Time of Great Change
Drucker on Asia: A Dialogue between Peter Drucker and Isao Nakauchi
Peter Drucker on the Profession of Management
Management Challenges for the 21st Century
2000s
Drucker taught his last course in the spring of 2002, at the age of 93 (though he’d
continue to lecture periodically for the next several years). That summer, he was
awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
President Bush called Drucker “the world’s foremost pioneer of management
theory.” In 2004, the Drucker Graduate School of Management became the Peter F.
Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management.
Asked near the end of his life what he considered his most important contributions,
Drucker replied:
That I early on—almost sixty years ago—realized that management has become the constitutive
organ and function of the Society of Organizations;
That management is not “Business Management”…but the governing organ of all institutions of
Modern Society;
That I established the study of management as a discipline in its own right; and
That I focused this discipline on People and Power; on Values, Structure and Constitution; and
above all on responsibilities—that is, focused the Discipline of Management on Management as
a truly liberal art.
Drucker died on November 11, 2005, eight days shy of his ninety-sixth birthday. In
2006, the Drucker Archives became the Drucker Institute. Our mission is
“strengthening organizations to strengthen society.”
5 questions
2. Focus on contriution
a. Direct results
b. Building and reaffirming values
c. Building and developing people for tomorrow
3. Build on strengths
- Making strength productive
1. Identify any job that had defeated 2 or 3 people in succession
2. Make each job demanding and big
3. Start with a person can do rather than the job requires
4. Getting strength is by tolerating weaknesses
http://www.druckerinstitute.com/peter-druckers-life-and-legacy/druckers-career-timeline-and-
bibliography/
https://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/299936#11
10 Famous quotes by Henry Mintzberg
1. “Companies are communities. There’s a spirit of working together.
Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be
singled out as solely responsible for success.”
2. “Managers who don’t lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don’t
manage don’t know what’s going on. It’s a phony separation that people
are making between the two.”
3. “Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage
individualism.”
4. “If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about
governments, then the plural sector is about communities.”
5. “This obsession with leadership… It’s not neutral; it’s American, this idea
of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I
think it’s killing American companies.”
6. “We’re all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose
flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are
simply ordinary, healthy people who aren’t too screwed up.”
7. “Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about
helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action.
Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They
manage projects. They negotiate contracts.”
8. “Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the
informal learning that produces new perspectives and new combinations…
Once managers understand this, they can avoid other costly
misadventures caused by applying formal techniques, without judgement
and intuition, to problem solving.”
9. “Effective managing therefore happens where art, craft, and science meet.
But in a classroom of students without managerial experience, these have
no place to meet — there is nothing to do.”
10.“Theory is a dirty word in some managerial quarters. That is rather
curious, because all of us, managers especially, can no more get along
without theories than libraries can get along without catalogs — and for
the same reason: theories help us make sense of incoming information.”
Henry Mintzberg, a prominent management thinker from the 1970s to the present, has
consistently advocated for the practical training of managers in real management
experiences. The management theory of Henry Mintzberg basics are that management
skills cannot be taught in a classroom, but can only be enhanced through authentic
experiences.
Read about the management theory of Henry Mintzberg in current and past
publications
The Mintzberg theory of management continues to evolve as Henry Mintzberg does
more work with active managers and businesspeople, as well as in the academy.
Keeping up to date with Mintzberg's work can help you stay on the cutting edge of
business management as well. Mintzberg's website provides comprehensive
information about his past and ongoing publications.
https://www.toolshero.com/toolsheroes/henry-mintzberg/
https://www.business.com/articles/management-theory-of-henry-mintzberg-basics/
Gantt charts, and their modern equivalent, program evaluation
and review technique (PERT) charts are graphic management
tools, ...
Gantt charts, and their modern equivalent, program evaluation and review technique
(PERT) charts are graphic management tools, providing visual methods of scheduling
both time and resources for work projects. Henry Gantt management theory
incorporates the record of the work that has been done, balanced with the work that still
needs to be completed.
According to Gantt theory, a Gantt chart is a bar chart showing the progression of time
through the phases of a project. The charts can be simple or complex, depending on the
needs of the project manager and the team. As you are deciding on how to manage a
project, consider the following:
1. The management theory of Henry Gantt dictates the use of both resources and time
when evaluating projects. Considering this, how many people will be needed to complete
the project?
Train your staff to use project management solutions based on the management
theory of Henry Gantt
Your staff will be much more productive once they understand how valuable a solution to
business scheduling issues Gantt charts can be. There are online resources for free training on
how to create and use Gantt charts.
Choose Gantt chart software that will meet your needs
There are multiple software solutions for creating Gantt charts, PERT charts, and other project
management tools. Be sure to review several of the options before making your choice. Some
programs are very complex and others may be too simple for your projects.
Gantt was born in Calvert County, Maryland. He graduated from McDonogh School in 1878
and from Johns Hopkins University in 1880. He taught at the McDonogh School for three
years. He received a Masters of Engineering degree from the Stevens Institute of Technology
in New Jersey.
In 1884 he joined as a Mechanical Engineer with Pool and Hunt of Baltimore. In 1887
became an assistant to Frederick W. Taylor in applying industrial engineering (scientific
management) principles to the work at Midvale Steel and Bethlehem Steel, working there
with Taylor until 1893. In his later career as a management systems consultant, he designed
the 'task and bonus' system of wage payment and additional measurement methods for
worker efficiency and productivity.
In 1916, influenced by Thorsten Veblen he set up the New Machine, an association which
sought to apply the criteria of industrial efficiency to the political process. In association
with the Marxist, Walter Polakov he led a group from the 1916 ASME conference to discuss
Gantt's call for socialising industrial production under the control of managers
incorporating Polakov's analysis of inefficiency in the industrial context.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) awards an annual medal in honor of
Henry Laurence Gantt.
The "man’s record", which shows what each worker should do and did do, and
the "daily balance of work", which shows the amount of work to be done and the amount
that is done.
Gantt gives an example with orders that will require many days to complete. The daily
balance has rows for each day and columns for each part or each operation. At the top of
each column is the amount needed. The amount entered in the appropriate cell is the
number of parts done each day and the cumulative total for that part. Heavy horizontal lines
indicate the starting date and the date that the order should be done. According to Gantt,
the graphical daily balance is "a method of scheduling and recording work". In this 1903
article, Gantt also describes the use of: "production cards" for assigning work to each
operator and recording how much was done each day.
In his 1916 book "Work, Wages, and Profits" Gantt explicitly discusses scheduling,
especially in the job shop environment. He proposes giving to the foreman each day an
"order of work" that is an ordered list of jobs to be done that day. Moreover, he discusses the
need to coordinate activities to avoid "interferences". However, he also warns that the most
elegant schedules created by planning offices are useless if they are ignored, a situation that
he observed.
In his 1919 book "Organizing for Work" Gantt gives two principles for his charts:
Some Publications
Henry L. Gantt, Dabney Herndon Maury (1884) The Efficiency of Fluid in Vapor Engines.
D. Van Nostrand.
Henry L. Gantt (1903) A graphical daily balance in manufacture
Henry L. Gantt (1908) Training Workmen in Habits of Industry and Coöperation. 12 pages.
Henry L. Gantt (1910) The Compensation of Workmen ...: A Lecture Delivered Before the
Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, Dec. 15, 1910. 116 pages.
Henry L. Gantt (1910), Work, Wages, and Profits: Their Influence on the Cost of Living, New
York, New York, USA: Engineering Magazine Company, LCCN 10014590. (See also second
edition, revised and enlarged.)
Henry L. Gantt (1916), Industrial leadership, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Henry L. Gantt (1919), Organizing for Work, New York, New York, USA: Harcourt, Brace,
and Howe, LCCN 19014919.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Gantt
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2753.htm
http://www.teachspace.org/personal/research/management/gantt_and_williams.html
http://www.elizabethedersheim.com/2013/05/20/enduring-thinkers-henry-laurence-
gantt-born-may-20-1861/
https://www.business.com/articles/management-theory-of-henry-gantt/