Peter Drucker
Peter Drucker was born in a suburb of Vienna on November 19, 1909 during the height of the Habsburg Empire. He received a Ph.D in law from Frankfurt University in 1931, and became senior editor in charge of foreign affairs and business at Frankfurt's largest daily newspaper, the Frankfurter General-Anzeiger, when he was just 21. Drucker and Doris Schmitz were married in London in 1937. They moved to the United States shortly thereafter, where he took on a series of writing and academic positions, including professor at Sarah Lawrence and Bennington colleges, and correspondent for the Financial Times.
In 1950, Drucker began a twenty-one year stint as a professor at the Graduate Business School of New York University. He established himself as a consultant to major corporations, with early clients including General Motors and Sears Roebuck.
In 1971, Drucker moved to Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California where he would serve as professor of social sciences and management for over 30 years. He and Mrs. Drucker received corporate and social sector leaders from around the world in their modest home in Claremont, where they also raised four children and lived for nearly four decades.
Well before his passing in 2005, Drucker was already widely recognized as the most important thinker of his time on how organizations ought to be managed. He influenced leaders and organizations as diverse as Google, General Electric, the Girl Scouts, and the United Farm Workers.
To pigeonhole Drucker - to make him out to be solely a "business guru" - is to do him a great injustice. For Drucker was, as he called himself, a "social ecologist": a close observer of the way humans are organized across all sectors ― in business, but also in government and in the nonprofit world ― in other words a Systems Thinker. Drucker examined how society as a whole functioned, and he probed the big forces - demographic and economic ― relentlessly reshaping it. He explored how individuals can flourish and find fulfillment in what they do, professionally as well as personally.
Drucker recorded his views in 39 books and hundreds of articles in publications from The Wall Street Journal and the Economist to Harper's Magazine and Harvard Business Review.
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In 1950, Drucker began a twenty-one year stint as a professor at the Graduate Business School of New York University. He established himself as a consultant to major corporations, with early clients including General Motors and Sears Roebuck.
In 1971, Drucker moved to Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California where he would serve as professor of social sciences and management for over 30 years. He and Mrs. Drucker received corporate and social sector leaders from around the world in their modest home in Claremont, where they also raised four children and lived for nearly four decades.
Well before his passing in 2005, Drucker was already widely recognized as the most important thinker of his time on how organizations ought to be managed. He influenced leaders and organizations as diverse as Google, General Electric, the Girl Scouts, and the United Farm Workers.
To pigeonhole Drucker - to make him out to be solely a "business guru" - is to do him a great injustice. For Drucker was, as he called himself, a "social ecologist": a close observer of the way humans are organized across all sectors ― in business, but also in government and in the nonprofit world ― in other words a Systems Thinker. Drucker examined how society as a whole functioned, and he probed the big forces - demographic and economic ― relentlessly reshaping it. He explored how individuals can flourish and find fulfillment in what they do, professionally as well as personally.
Drucker recorded his views in 39 books and hundreds of articles in publications from The Wall Street Journal and the Economist to Harper's Magazine and Harvard Business Review.
Source: www.druckerinstitute.com
The Peter Drucker Society of Austria
The Center for Great Management