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Peter Ferdinand Drucker (born November 19, 1909) is a management theorist who created many phrases common in business today.Drucker, born in Vienna, Austria, moved to the United States in 1937. He taught at New York University as Professor of Management from 1950 to 1971. Since 1971 he has been the Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at Claremont University . He lives in Claremont, California.
He has been writing influential works about management since the 1940s. He has written about 30 books, and from 1975 to 1995 he was an editorial columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Now in his nineties, he still consults for businesses and non-profit organizationA non-profit organization (often called "non-profit org" or simply "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") may be a formal incorporated not-for-profit corporation that does not have shareholders, though it may have members and issue membership certificates or rs.
Drucker was awarded the Presidential Medal of FreedomThe Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award in the United States. It was established by President Harry Truman in 1945 to honor service during WWII. President John F. Kennedy revived the medal and began the tradition of awarding the me by U.S. President George W. BushGeorge Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States. His first four-year term as President began on January 20, 2001 following the controversial U. presidential election, 2000, where for the first time in American on July 9July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 175 days remaining. Events 455 Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the western Roman Empire. 1357 5:31 AM Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor assiste, 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom. He recently founded the Leader to Leader Foundation . His most controversial work is on compensation schemes, in which he said that senior management should not be compensated more than twenty times the lowest paid employees. This made him an enemy of some of the same people who had previously praised him.
1 List of publications
- Adventures of a Bystander
- Concept of the Corporation
- Drucker on Asia: A Dialogue Between Peter Drucker and Isao Nakauchi
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles
- The Age of Discontinuity
- The Practice of Management
- Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World
- Leading in a Time of Change: What it Will Take to Lead Tomorrow
- Management Challenges for the 21st Century
- Management: Tasks Responsibilities Practices
- Managing for Results: Economic Tasks and Risk-Taking Decisions
- Managing for the Future: The 1990s and Beyond
- Managing in a Time of Great Change
- Managing in the Next Society
- Managing in Turbulent Times
- Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Practices and Principles
- Peter Drucker on the Profession of Management
- Post-Capitalist Society
- The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society
- The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition
- The Effective Executive
- The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism
- The Executive in Action: Managing for Results, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- The Frontiers of Management
- The Future of Industrial Man
- The New Society: The Anatomy of Industrial Order
- The Pension Fund Revolution
2 External links
Drucker, Peter
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