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Peter Ferdinand Drucker (/ ˈ d r ʌ k ər /; German:; 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.
Drucker's biographer Jack Beatty referred to it as "a book about business, the way Moby Dick is a book about whaling". [1] In writing and researching the book, Drucker was given access to General Motors resources, paid a full salary, accompanied CEO Alfred P. Sloan to meetings, and was given free run of the company.
The Landmarks of Tomorrow is a book by Peter Drucker which appeared in 1959. It describes a change in society which took place between 1937 and 1957, whereby the precepts of the Cartesian worldview no longer hold sway. Cause is no longer the central concept in understanding the world, but rather pattern, purpose and process. [1]
Management by objectives (MBO), also known as management by planning (MBP), was first popularized by Peter Drucker in his 1954 book The Practice of Management. [1] Management by objectives is the process of defining specific objectives within an organization that management can convey to organization members, then deciding how to achieve each objective in sequence.
Author: Peter Drucker: Publisher: HarperCollins: ... 0887306209: Post-Capitalist Society (1993) is a book by management professor and sociologist Peter Drucker. [1 ...
The term 'knowledge work' appeared in The Landmarks of Tomorrow (1959) by Peter Drucker. [12] Drucker later coined the term 'knowledge worker' in The Effective Executive [13] in 1966. Later, in 1999, he suggested that "the most valuable asset of a 21st-century institution, whether business or non-business, will be its knowledge workers and ...
The first Global Peter Drucker Forum was held on 19 November 2009, marking what would have been the 100th birthday of Peter Drucker. [3] The forum included presentations by management philosopher and author Charles Handy, Kellogg School of Management professor Philip Kotler, economist Peter Lorange, economist and consultant Fredmund Malik, C.K. Prahalad of the Stephen M. Ross School of ...
Speechtek biography; Stewart Crainer: Corporate Man to Corporate Skunk: The Tom Peters Phenomenon, Oxford, 1997; Winfried W. Weber: Innovation durch Injunktion, Goettingen, 2005; Tom Peters: The Bestselling Prophet of the Management Revolution (part of a 4-book series of business biographies on Peters, Bill Gates, Peter Drucker, and Warren Buffett)