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	Peter Drucker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19, 1909–November 11, 2005) was an author of numerous economics-related literature who was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a high level civil servant in the Hapsburg empire.
		Drucker was interested in the growing importance of people who worked with their minds rather than their hands.
		Drucker was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President George W. Bush on July 9, 2002.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Drucker (1276 words)

	HEIA People: Peter F. Drucker
		Drucker is a consultant specializing in strategy and policy for both businesses and non profits, and in the work and organization of top management.
		Drucker has variously been Economist for an international bank in London; American Economist for a group of British and European banks and investment trusts; American Correspondent for a group of British newspapers; and Professor of Politics and Philosophy at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont.
		Drucker was educated in Austria and in England.
	www.upenn.edu /heia/people/bio/drucker.html (342 words)

	When Peter Drucker Speaks
		In a review of Drucker's new book, "The World According to Peter Drucker," Speaker of the House Gingrich explains why Drucker is the most influential writer of the 20th century.
		In a conversation I had with him recently, Drucker observed that he may be the last person alive to have attended classes taught by both Schumpeter and John Maynard Keynes, perhaps the two most important economists of the 20th century.
		Drucker recognizes that it's out of the Austrian school of thought that the prospering modern world was created, a world in which normal people can achieve extraordinary results by applying simple principles in a disciplined, purposeful way.
	www.inc.com /magazine/19980301/888.html (1288 words)

	The X-economy - Peter Drucker on The X-Economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Peter Drucker is the world’s most widely read and influential thinker on business and management.
		Drucker’s caveat about this skill was that we have a good ten years ahead of us to figure this out.
		Employees, according to Drucker, need to be treated as though they are volunteers, with the ability to get up and walk out at a moment’s notice, taking all of their intellectual capital with them.
	www.the-x-economy.com /drucker-summary.htm (1745 words)

	Boston.com / Business / The world according to Peter Drucker
		My candidate is ''The Daily Drucker," a compendium of wisdom from the writings of Peter Drucker, the famed management guru who turns 96 this year.
		Drucker's real subject is understanding what is happening to everybody -- business managers, investors, and people of all sorts -- in a blossoming ''knowledge society" where new technology, massive quantities of information, and other upheavals have left most of us stressed and confused.
		The format of ''The Daily Drucker," along the lines of a daily meditation book, is well suited to an age when snacking has become as standard a way to consume ideas and information as it has for food.
	www.boston.com /business/articles/2005/05/01/the_world_according_to_peter_drucker (537 words)

	Anti Essays : Free Essays on Peter Drucker versus Warren Bennis Essay
		Peter Drucker was born in Vienna in the early 1900’s.
		Similar to Drucker’s need for management to be open to abandoning tasks and/or ideas that are not reaching the objective, Bennis’ leader’s ability to guide the group may be hindered by management if management is not completely open to change.
		Drucker suggest that much research and planning is required in the early stages of these processes, which starts with a strategy used in trying to find a suitable company to have an alliance with.
	www.antiessays.com /essay.php?eid=1609 (2332 words)

	Wired 1.03: Post-Capitalist
		Peter Drucker, the father of modern management, discusses how knowledge, not capital, is the new basis of wealth.
		This interview was conducted in Drucker's home by Peter Schwartz, who may be the Drucker of this generation.
		PETER SCHWARTZ: As Japanese worker output rapidly grew, American businesspeople, academics, and the new administration in Washington bemoaned the relatively low rate of productivity improvement in the US.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/1.03/drucker.html (779 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Remembering Peter Drucker
		Peter Drucker was a revolutionary thinker - and the world beat a path to his door.
		I mentioned to Peter Drucker a recent encounter I had had with the architect of the McKinsey management consultancy, Marvin Bower: effectively the man who raised consulting to professional status, single-handedly.
		Peter Drucker never won a Nobel Prize for anything because academics are snooty about management.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/4459546.stm (928 words)

	Thought Leaders Forum: Peter F. Drucker Biography
		Drucker was born in 1909 in Vienna and was educated there and in England.
		Peter Drucker has been hailed in the United States and abroad as the seminal thinker, writer, and lecturer on the contemporary organization.
		Peter Drucker has gone beyond merely recognizing the high value of the social sector; he has worked to improve the effectiveness of this sector, strengthening society as a whole." [full quote]
	www.pfdf.org /leaderbooks/drucker/bio.html (1414 words)

	CBC News: Management guru Peter Drucker dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Drucker's work, much at Claremont Graduate University in California, "turned modern management theory into a serious discipline," the university said in announcing his death.
		Drucker was a professor at Claremont from 1971 to 2003, and continued to write and consult until he died.
		Drucker was born in 1909 in Vienna, and moved to London in 1933 to escape the Nazis.
	www.cbc.ca /story/world/national/2005/11/11/drucker-died051111.html (308 words)

	Amazon.com: The Essential Drucker: In One Volume the Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		John Flaherty, in Peter Drucker: Shaping the Managerial Mind (1999), and Jack Beatty, in The World According to Peter Drucker (1998), both penned biographical portraits and bibliographic essays that are homages to Drucker and his thoughts.
		Drucker is always tight in his style and words with thoughts that at first make one sit up and take notice.
		Peter Drucker got paid enormously for asking simple questions to company executives such as 'what is your company?', 'who is your customer?' and so on.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0066210879?v=glance (2193 words)

	Forbes.com: Peter Drucker On Leadership (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Peter F. Drucker was born 95 years ago today--can it be possible?--in Vienna.
		We were greeted by Drucker's wife, Doris, and ushered into the den for what developed into a two-hour conversation.
		This consultation is one Drucker and Warren have engaged in twice yearly for two decades.
	www.forbes.com /2004/11/19/cz_rk_1119drucker_print.html (1876 words)

	BBC World Service \| Learning English \| Business English
		Peter Drucker's first great contribution was to focus on management as a discipline in its own right.
		Drucker said decentralization was good because it created small groups where people felt that their contribution was important.
		What Drucker wanted was a workplace where workers were trusted to get on with the job without too much supervision, where they knew what they needed to do and were clear about how it would be measured and how they would be rewarded.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/learningenglish/work/handy/drucker.shtml (353 words)

	Course Technology--InfoWeb: Peter Drucker
		Peter Drucker is known as a somewhat unorthodox analyst of business, economics, politics, and society.
		You'll find a short biography of Drucker at www.cgu.edu/drucker hosted by the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University.
		Seeing Things as they Really Are In 1997, when Peter Drucker was 87 years old, Forbes magazine spoke with him about his view of the future.
	www.cciw.com /content/drucker.html (250 words)

	Amazon.com: Post-Capitalist Society: Books: Peter F. Drucker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Drucker's vision of a "post-capitalist society"--one in which knowledge is the basic resource and nation-states compete with transnational, regional and tribal structures--is hardly original.
		Drucker, the leading guru of management (Managing the Nonprofit Organization, HarperCollins, 1990), argues that we are in the middle of a great social transformation, akin to the Renaissance, which is symbolized by the computer.
		Peter Drucker's "Post Capitalist Society" was one of the two books that have most helped me understand where is our Society heading for.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0887306616?v=glance (2153 words)

	Peter F. Drucker: About Drucker
		Peter F. Drucker--writer, management consultant and university professor-- was born in Vienna, Austria in November 1909. After receiving his doctorate in Public and International Law from Frankfurt University in Frankfurt, Germany, he worked as an economist and journalist in London before moving to the United States in 1937.
		Experts in the worlds of business and academia regard Peter Drucker as the founding father of the study of management.
		For his accomplishments, Peter Drucker was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush on July 9, 2002. A documentary series about his life and work appeared on CNBC 10 times from December 24, 2002 through January 3, 2003.
	www.peter-drucker.com /about.html (110 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Management Challenges for the 21st Century: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Drucker sees the period we're living in as one of "PROFOUND TRANSITION--and the changes are more radical perhaps than even those that ushered in the 'Second Industrial Revolution' of the middle of the 19th century, or the structural changes triggered by the Great Depression and the Second World War".
		Drucker's writing career spans eight decades and the years have only served to sharpen his insight and perspective in a way that makes most other management texts seem derivative.
		In Chapter 3, Peter F. Drucker is describing, the Change leader, which mission will not be to manage change, because it is not possible to manage change, but to be ahead of it.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0887309992 (2188 words)

	Drucker Archives : Homepage
		Peter F. Drucker: The Legacy Lives On As a writer, teacher, and consultant for more than sixty years, Peter Drucker has created and articulated the concepts that have made management a field of legitimate academic inquiry and professional practice.
		Key to Professor Drucker’s vision of management is the belief that the most important asset of any organization is its people.
		Professor Drucker’s interest in management extends beyond the scope of traditional business to include nonprofit organizations and entrepreneurial enterprises.
	www.druckerarchives.net (174 words)

	Drucker, Peter Ferdinand on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		DRUCKER, PETER FERDINAND [Drucker, Peter Ferdinand] 1907-, American economist, b.
		Peter Drucker--man of the past, man of the future: the celebrated management thinker turned 93 in November 2002.
		Corpedia LLC Announces the Release of Dr. Peter F. Drucker's Second Suite of E-Learning Courses.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/D/DruckerP1.asp (412 words)

	eLearning \| Peter Drucker \| Business Management Training
		Peter Ferdinand Drucker is an exclusive member of Corpedia's web-based training faculty.
		Drucker is widely known as the most prescient business thinker of his time.
		The participation in Corpedia's "Certified Drucker Management Courses" will not only empower the individual with current business thought and analysis, but also upon successful completion of a course, the individual is awarded a course certificate.
	www.corpedia.com /welcome/peterdrucker.asp (429 words)

	On Point : Management Guru Peter Drucker - Management Guru Peter Drucker
		Born in Vienna in 1909, Drucker studied law in Germany before moving to London to escape the Nazis, and later to the United States.
		Tune in to hear a conversation with business guru Peter Drucker about the direction America is taking.
		Peter Drucker is one of the biggest thinkers of the 20th Century.
	www.onpointradio.org /shows/2004/12/20041208_b_main.asp (226 words)

	Drucker, Peter Ferdinand. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After receiving a doctorate in international and public law from Frankfurt Univ. (1931), Drucker was a financial writer for a German newspaper.
		Drucker is best known as an authority on corporate management; among his ideas in the 1970s was the shift from traditional assembly lines to flexible production methods.
		He also helped found (1990) the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management.
	www.bartleby.com /65/dr/DruckerP.html (211 words)

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	Peter Drucker's Monumental Legacy
		Drucker was often the first to discern a major trend such as the rise of Japan as an industrial and economic force or the high impact of technology on management practices.
		Drucker was also a bit of a dreamer, envisioning corporations as communities where people and organizations strive for noneconomic satisfaction.
		Drucker's idealism had developed in part from his groundbreaking research of GM that led to one of his best-known of 39 books, Concept of the Corporation.
	www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/nov2005/nf20051114_2199_db042.htm (1078 words)

	InformationWeek \| The IT Economy \| A Harsh Assessment Of IT From Peter Drucker \| February 12, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A Harsh Assessment Of IT From Peter Drucker
		Feb 12, 2003 12:00 AM Time finally is catching up with Peter Drucker.
		Drucker also reiterated his longstanding stance that knowledge management is a misnomer, because knowledge simply isn't something that can be managed.
	www.informationweek.com /story/IWK20030212S0007 (575 words)

	Canadian Drucker Award
		The Board of Directors and Associates of the Peter F. Drucker Canadian Foundation are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Peter Drucker on November 11, 2005.
		Celebrating collaboration, social enterprise and community catalysts, the Canadian Drucker Foundation is proud to partner with the Centre for Social Innovation and the Ashoka in its national mandate to recognize and reward the best of Canada's social innovators.
		Aligned with Drucker's interests in innovation in social enterprise, the SIA fosters an innovative, resilient and vibrant social mission sector in Canada by actively identifying, celebrating and sharing proven strategies of social innovation.
	www.innovation-award.ca (150 words)

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