Peter Drucker

Also known as Peter F. Drucker, Peter Ferdinand Drucker

American business consultant (1909–2005)

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Peter Drucker was an American business consultant and thinker who lived from 1909 to 2005 and is widely recognized as a foundational figure in modern management theory. His ideas about how organizations should be structured and managed have influenced business practices and education worldwide for decades.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1958
Works: 21

Top works

Au-dela du Capitalisme
21 shi ji de guan li tiao zhan ('Management Challenges for the 21st Century' in Traditional Chinese Characters)
Devenez manager ! Tout ce qu'il faut savoir avant de devenir directeur
Different Rainbows
El ejecutivo eficaz

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: United States
Active from: 1909
Active to: 2005

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 266
Total plays: 1,542

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 84,878x
A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,188x
QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,735x
RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,716x
<i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,314x

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Quotes

“This is a political book... It has a political purpose: to strengthen the will to maintain freedom against the threat of its abandonment in favor of totalitarianism.”
“[J]ustification of power must be the central problem. For it is through this problem alone that freedom and equality—or... justice—can be projected into the social and political reality... But to fascism the problem does not even exist except as a ridiculous relic of "Jewish liberalism."”
“Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.”
“Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior...”
“There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere... In every case the opposition could only be overcome - peacefully or by force - because of the promise of capitalism to establish equality... That this promise was an illusion we all know.”
“With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.”

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date of birth: 1909-11-19
date of death: 2005-11-11
Commons category: Peter Drucker
name in native language: Peter Ferdinand Drucker
short name: Peter Drucker

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Article

Peter Ferdinand Drucker (/ˈdrʌkər/; German: [ˈdʁʊkɐ]; November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005) 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 "the champion of management as a serious discipline".

Drucker's books and articles, both scholarly and popular, 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.