THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER

PETER F DRUCKER
 About the Author
• Peter Ferdinand Drucker born on November 19, 1909 expired on November 11, 2005
was an Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, whose
writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern
business corporation. He was also a leader in the development of management
education, he invented the concept known as management by objectives and self-

control, and he has been described as "the founder of modern management ".
• Drucker's books and scholarly and popular articles explored how humans are organized across
the business, government, and nonprofit sectors of society. He is one of the best-known and
most widely influential thinkers and writers on the subject of management theory and practice.
His writings have predicted many of the major developments of the late twentieth century,
including privatization and decentralization; the rise of Japan to economic world power; the
decisive importance of marketing; and the emergence of the information society with its
necessity of lifelong learning.
• In 1959, Drucker coined the term "knowledge worker," and later in his life considered
knowledge-worker productivity to be the next frontier of management. Drucker gave his name
to three institutions: the Drucker Institute and the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate
School of Management, both at Claremont Graduate University in the United States, and
the Peter F. Drucker Academy, China. The annual Global Peter Drucker Forum, held in his
hometown of Vienna, honors his legacy.
 Books authored by Drucker
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles
• Preparing Tomorrow's Business Leaders Today.
• The Rise of the Knowledge Society.
• America's Next Twenty Years.
• The Future of Industrial Man, a Conservative Approach