Peter F. Drucker

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in Austria

November 19, 1909

died

November 11, 2005

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Business & Investing

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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: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done 4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 4,320 ratings — published 1967 — 28 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management 4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 1,737 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles 4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 1,620 ratings — published 1985 — 25 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Practice of Management 4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 318 ratings — published 1954 — 18 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices by Peter F. Drucker, Max DePree (Contribution by), Robert Buford (Contribution by) 3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 326 ratings — published 2005 — 18 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done 4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Management Challenges for the 21st Century 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 1999 — 19 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Managing Oneself (Harvard Business Review Classics) 4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Managing for Results 4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 1964 — 20 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices 4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 1999 — 28 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
― Peter F. Drucker, Essential Drucker: Management, the Individual and Society

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“The best way to predict your future is to create it”
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“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”
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