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Peter F. Drucker


Born
in Austria
November 19, 1909

Died
November 11, 2005

Genre
Business & Investing


Peter Ferdinand Drucker was a writer, management consultant and university professor. His writing focused on management-related literature. Peter Drucker made famous the term knowledge worker and is thought to have unknowingly ushered in the knowledge economy, which effectively challenges Karl Marx's world-view of the political economy. George Orwell credits Peter Drucker as one of the only writers to predict the German-Soviet Pact of 1939.

The son of a high level civil servant in the Habsburg empire, Drucker was born in the chocolate capital of Austria, in a small village named Kaasgraben (now a suburb of Vienna, part of the 19th district, Döbling). Following the defeat of Austria-Hungary in World War I, there were few opportunities for emp ...more

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The Effective Executive: Th...
4.08 avg rating — 38,298 ratings — published 1966 — 121 editions
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Managing Oneself
3.98 avg rating — 14,762 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions
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Innovation and Entrepreneur...
4.08 avg rating — 11,135 ratings — published 1985
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The Essential Drucker
4.09 avg rating — 10,346 ratings — published 2000 — 39 editions
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The Practice of Management:...
4.25 avg rating — 2,079 ratings — published 1954 — 81 editions
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Management: Tasks, Responsi...
4.30 avg rating — 1,368 ratings — published 1985 — 57 editions
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The Five Most Important Que...
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The Daily Drucker: 366 Days...
4.10 avg rating — 1,166 ratings — published 2000 — 34 editions
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Managing the Non-Profit Org...
3.99 avg rating — 1,184 ratings — published 1990 — 36 editions
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Management Challenges for t...
4.07 avg rating — 874 ratings — published 2009 — 50 editions
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“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
― Peter Drucker
tags: knowldege
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“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
― Peter Drucker, Essential Drucker
tags: leadership
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“The best way to predict your future is to create it”
― Peter Drucker
tags: business
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