Personal Life :
Personal Life Peter Ferdinand Drucker lived from November 19, 1909-November 11, 2005.
He was a writer, consultant, economist and widely considered to be the father of “Modern Management”.
He wrote about 39 books and countless popular articles which explored how humans are organized across all sectors of society-in business, government and non profit world.
Career :
Career After secondary school, Drucker moved to Hamburg, Germany and worked as a clerk-trainee for an export firm while enrolled in Hamburg University Law School.
Drucker then traveled to Frankfurt where he worked as a financial writer. In 1931, he earned his doctorate in public law and international relations from the University of Frankfurt.
He moved to London where he worked as a securities analyst for an insurance company, then an economist for a small bank.
Drucker worked as a correspondent for British financial publications before becoming an economics professor at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. Later, he taught at Bennington College, in Vermont.
Contributions :
Contributions Drucker introduced the idea of decentralization-1940.
He was the first to assert that workers should be treated as assets and not as liabilities to be eliminated. He originated the view of the corporation as a human community-1950.
He argued for the importance of substance over style, for institutionalized practices over charismatic, cult leaders-1960.
He wrote about the contribution of knowledge workers-1970.
Drucker’s work at General Electric-1980.
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