Drucker was a visionary and many of the management concepts and philosophies that are commonly used today owe their origin to him.
Peter Ferdinand Drucker (Drucker) died on November 11, 2005, six days short of his 96th birthday. Drucker's contribution to management cannot be matched by any other contemporary management thinker. A polymath, Drucker had 39 books on management, economics, and society to his credit and had published thousands of scholarly articles. His last book, "The Effective Executive in Action" will be published in early 2006.
Drucker's greatness lay in his profound and simple writing. So simple are his works that even a person without any formal management education can understand and appreciate them. I read a couple of his books and found them quite simple to understand. No doubt, Drucker "was a guru to the world's corporate elite." Andrew S Grove, Co-founder of Intel Corp., said after Drucker's death, "Like many philosophers, he spoke in plain language that resonated with ordinary managers." To Jack Welch, the former CEO of GE, Drucker was "the greatest management thinker of the twentieth century." According to management expert Tom Peters, Drucker was "the creator and inventor of modern management." |
