A Tribute

Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005) - writer, management consultant and university professor - was born in Vienna, Austria in November 1909.  After receiving his doctorate in Public and International Law from Frankfurt University in Frankfurt, Germany, he worked as an economist and journalist in London before moving to the United States in 1937.

In 1939, Peter F. Drucker published his first book, “The End of Economic Man”.  In 1950 he then joined the faculty of New York University's Graduate Business School as Professor of Management.  He was Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management since 1971 at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California.  The University named its management school after him in 1987.

Peter F. Drucker has written 35 books in all: 15 books deal with management, including the landmark books The Practice of Management and The Effective Executive; 16 cover society, economics, and politics; 2 are novels; and 1 is a collection of autobiographical essays.  His most recent book, Managing in the Next Society, was published in fall 2002.

Peter F. Drucker also served as a regular columnist for The Wall Street Journal from 1975 to 1995 and has contributed essays and articles to numerous publications, including the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Economist.  Throughout his career, he has consulted with dozens of organizations - ranging from the world's largest corporations to entrepreneurial startups and various government and nonprofit agencies.

Experts in the worlds of business and academia regard Peter F. Drucker as the founding Father of the Study of Management.

For his accomplishments, Peter Drucker was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush on July 9, 2002.  A documentary series about his life and work appeared on CNBC 10 times from December 24, 2002 through January 3, 2003.

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"Drucker's ideas continue to display a force and resonance that leave him pretty much in a class by himself. It is impossible to read the man without learning a lot."
—Fortune Magazine

"Our most enduring commentator on the practice of management and the economic institutions of society."
—Business Week

  Many of Peter F. Drucker´s publications

• The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism (1939)

• The Future of Industrial Man (1942)

• Concept of the Corporation (1945)

• The New Society (1950)

• The Practice of Management (1954)

• America's Next 20 Years (1957)

• Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959)

• Power and Democracy in America (1961)

• Managing for Results: Economic Tasks and Risk-Taking Decisions (1964)

• The Effective Executive (1966)

• The Age of Discontinuity (1968)

• Technology, Management and Society (1970)

• Men, Ideas and Politics (1971)

• Management: Tasks, Responsibilities and Practices (1973)

• The Unseen Revolution: How the Pension Fund Came to America (1976)

• An Introductory View of Management (1977)

• Adventures of a Bystander (1979)

• Song of the Brush: Japanese Painting from the Sanso Collection (1979)

• Managing in Turbulent Times (1980)

• Toward the Next Economics and Other Essays (1981)

• The Changing World of the Executive (1982)

• The Temptation to Do Good (1984)

• Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles (1985)

• The Frontiers of Management (1986)

• The New Realities (1989)

• Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Practices and Principles (1990)

• Managing for the Future: The 1990s and Beyond (1992)

• The Post-Capitalist Society (1993)

• The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition (1993)

• The Theory of the Business (1994)

• Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995)

• Drucker on Asia: A Dialogue Between Peter Drucker and Isao Nakauchi (1997)

• Peter Drucker on the Profession of Management (1998)

• Management Challenges for the 21st Century (1999)

• The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management (2001)

• Leading in a Time of Change: What it Will Take to Lead Tomorrow (2001; with Peter Senge)

• The Effective Executive Revised (2002)

• Managing in the Next Society (2002)

• A Functioning Society (2003)

• The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done (2004)

• Managing Oneself (2005)

• The Effective Executive in Action (2006)

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