Peter Drucker

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Peter Drucker

Peter Ferdinand Drucker (born November 19, 1909 in Vienna , † November 11, 2005 in Claremont , California ) was an American economist of Austrian origin. Since the 1940s, he has published numerous influential works on the theory and practice of management . He is considered a pioneer of modern management theory and an original and independent thinker. Drucker sought clarity and overview in his works. He largely dispensed with a scientific apparatus and staff. His 35 books have sold over 5 million times.

Life

The printer, who grew up in Vienna as the son of an upper-class Jewish family , studied at the University of Hamburg in the 1920s and then went to the University of Frankfurt , where he studied law and history and became an editor for international relations and economics at the Frankfurter General-Anzeiger . As a law student in Frankfurt he met Fritz Kraemer , who later emigrated to the USA, where he advanced to become a "geostrategist" and with whom he remained lifelong friends. In his autobiography, Drucker described Kraemer as "the man who invented Kissinger " . It was also Drucker who, after his emigration to the USA in 1939, gave Kraemer access to high-ranking security groups and thus significantly promoted or made his career in the US Department of Defense possible. Drucker received his doctorate in Frankfurt in 1931 on “The justification of international law from the will of the state. A logical-critical examination of the self-commitment and agreement doctrine. ” Carl Schmitt offered him to supervise his habilitation thesis, of which only a section on Friedrich Julius Stahl was completed.

The Nazi regime put one of his works on the list of books that were publicly burned on May 10, 1933 . Drucker emigrated to Great Britain and worked in London as a securities analyst and for the Financial Times . In 1937 he moved to the USA and became professor of philosophy and politics at Bennington College in Bennington (Vermont) . In 1939 his book The End of Economic Man was published , in which he tried to explain the phenomenon of fascism with an existential philosophy approach. In 1943 he became a US citizen. In 1945 he wrote one of his classic works in Bennington, Concept of the Corporation .

Peter Drucker moved to New York University in 1950 and in the following years worked on numerous publications on management theory, wrote regularly for the Wall Street Journal and worked as a consultant to numerous international corporations such as General Motors and Sears Roebuck .

In 1954 he formulated “ Management by objectives ” (MbO) or “ Management by target agreement”. Today it is a widely used method from business administration for staff management and the development of personal initiative.

In 1971 he moved to Claremont Graduate University near Los Angeles. There, the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont University was established, which annually presents the Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation (award for innovations in the non-profit sector).

On July 9, 2002, Drucker was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom , the highest civilian honor in the United States, by George W. Bush . In several rankings, he was voted the most influential management thinker of all time.

Drucker thought marketing and innovation were more important keys to business success than the pursuit of profit. He also relied on motivated employees in the future competition between companies. He thought little of the Wall Street traders. He was convinced that if brokers performed cheaper than investors , a crash was on the horizon. Some of the terms he used for the first time have entered everyday language, such as “ knowledge worker ” or “ core competence ”. Drucker was hardly influenced by concepts such as “ business process reengineering ”, “ value stream analysis ” or “ Six Sigma ”.

reception

His works have also influenced a Japanese novel called " Moshi Koukou Yakyuu no Joshi Manager ga Drucker no 'Management' wo Yondara " ( What if the manager of a high school baseball team read Printer's "Management"? ), To which an anime of the same name and a real cinema film have also been released.

Peter Drucker has also advised, influenced and helped shape many non-profit organizations and churches in the USA. This also included the Red Cross , the Blue Cross and the Boy Scouts . Theologians, church leaders and opinion makers such as Bill Hybels , Gordon MacDonald and Rick Warren met also regularly with Peter Drucker at so-called A day with Peter Drucker (German: A day with Peter Drucker ) to learn from his great knowledge in leadership and management.

Publications

Books

  • The End of Economic Man , New York: John Day Co., 1939
    • German edition as the origins of totalitarianism: Das Ende des Homo Oeconomicus , Karolinger, Vienna / Leipzig 2010 ISBN 978-3-85418-140-8
  • The Future of Industrial Man. A Conservative Approach , New York: John Day Co., 1942
    • German edition as Die Zukunft der Industriegesellschaft , Düsseldorf: Econ, 1967
  • Concept of the Corporation , New York: John Day Co., 1946
    • German edition as Das Großunternehmen , Düsseldorf: Econ, 1966
  • The New Society: The Anatomy of Industrial Order . Harper & Row, New York 1950
    • German edition as a company on the assembly line. An anatomy of the social order . Frankfurt / M .: Verlag der Frankfurter Hefte, 1950
  • The Practice of Management . Harper & Row, New York 1954 (Reprint 2006, ISBN 978-0060878979 )
    • German edition: The practice of management . Düsseldorf: Econ, 1956, 1970 & 1998
  • America's Next Twenty Years (essay collection). Harper & Row, New York 1955
    • A look at the economic development of the western world. The next twenty years. Düsseldorf: Econ, 1957
  • The Landmarks of Tomorrow. Harper & Row, New York: Harper, 1957
    • The foundation for tomorrow. Düsseldorf: Econ, 1958
  • Technology, Management, and Society: Essays by Peter Drucker 1958
  • Managing for Results: Economic Tasks and Risk-Taking Decisions. Harper & Row, New York 1964
  • Doing business sensibly. Necessity and art to master the future, Düsseldorf: Econ, 1965
  • The Effective Executive, Harper & Row, New York 1967
    • German edition as The Effective Executive: Gaining effectiveness and ability to act in the leadership role , Munich 2014
  • The ideal manager. The high school of the manager. Düsseldorf: Econ, 1967; Knaur Taschenbuch 248 ISBN 3-426-00248-5
  • The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society. Harper & Row, New York, 1969
    • Managing the future. Tasks and opportunities in the age of uncertainty, Düsseldorf: Econ, 1969 & 1998
  • (Ed.) Preparing Tomorrow's Business Leaders Today, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1969
  • Technology, Management and Society (collection of articles), Harper & Row, New York, 1970
  • Men, Ideas and Politics (collection of articles), Harper & Row, New York, 1971
  • The New Markets, and Other Essays, Heinemann, London, 1971
  • Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, Harper & Row, New York, 1973
    • German: New Management Practice (Volume 1: Tasks, Volume 2: Methods). Düsseldorf: Econ, 1974
    • German: Management. Completely revised and expanded new edition. 2 volumes. Frankfurt / Main: Campus 2009
  • The Unseen Revolution: How Pension Fund Socialism Came to America. Harper & Row, New York, 1976
  • The invisible revolution. The employee society and its task, Düsseldorf: Econ, 1997
  • Management Cases, Harper & Row, New York, 1977
  • An Introductory View of Management, Harper & Row, New York, 1977
  • People and Performance: The Best of Peter Drucker on Management, Harper's College Press, New York, 1977
  • Adventures of a Bystander (autobiography), 344 pages, Harper & Row, New York 1979; exp. Edition 1998, ISBN 0-471-24739-1
    • Watcher of time. Unusual memories of the 20th century. Düsseldorf: Econ, 1981
  • Managing in Turbulent Times, Harper & Row, New York, 1980
  • Toward the Next Economics, and Other Essays, Harper & Row, New York, 1981
  • The Changing World of the Executive, Truman Talley Books, Times Books, New York, 1982
  • The Last of All Possible Worlds: A Novel, Harper & Row, New York, 1982
    • Before the lights went out (Roman), Vienna: Amalthea, 1985
  • The Temptation to Do Good, Heinemann, London, 1984
  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles, Harper & Row, New York, 1985
    • Innovation management for business and politics, Düsseldorf: Econ, 1985
  • The scandal of St. Jerome (novel), Düsseldorf: Marion von Schröder Verlag, 1986
  • The Frontiers of Management: Where Tomorrow's Decisions are Being Shaped Today, Truman Talley Books / Dutton, New York 1986; German: The entrepreneur's chance. Signals for the management of tomorrow 1987 Econ Verlag; Heyne Sachbuch 104 ISBN 3-453-04015-5
  • The New Realities: In Government and Politics, in Economics and Business, in Society and World View, Harper & Row, New York, 1989
    • New realities. Change of values ​​in politics, economy and society. Düsseldorf: Econ, 1989
  • Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Practices and Principles, HarperCollins, New York, 1990
  • Drucker in the "Harvard Business Review" 1963-1989 (collection of articles). Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1991
  • Our Changing Economic Society: The Best of Drucker's Thinking on Economic and Societal Change (collection of articles). HarperCollins, Keystone, 1991
  • Managing for the Future: The 1990s and Beyond. New York: Truman Talley Books / Dutton, 1992
  • Post-Capitalist Society. New York: HarperCollins, 1993
    • The post-capitalist society. Düsseldorf: Econ, 1993
  • The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition. New Brunswick / NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1993
  • Managing in a Time of Great Change, New York: Truman Talley Books / Dutton, 1995
  • The Pension Fund Revolution, New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1996
  • Drucker on Asia: The Drucker-Nakauchi Dialogue, New York: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997
  • The global challenge, Düsseldorf: Econ, 1996
  • Peter Drucker on the Profession of Management, Cambridge: Harvard Business School Press, 1998
  • Management Challenges for the 21st Century , New York: HarperCollins, 1999
    • German edition: Management in the 21st Century , Düsseldorf: Econ, 1999, ISBN 3430122384
  • Key years. Stations in my life , Frankfurt / New York: Campus, 2001.
  • The Essential Printer . New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001
    • German edition: What is management - the best of 50 years . Munich, Econ Ullstein List Verlag, 2002
  • The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask Your Organization , San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2008
    • The five crucial questions of management , Weinheim, Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2009

Essays

(since 1996)

  • "Five Years Ago in 'The Corporate Board'", The Corporate Board , May-June 1996
  • "Leaders Are Doers", Executive Excellence , April 1996
  • "Management Is Not a Technique," Across the Board , Jan. 1996
  • "Not Enough Generals Were Killed!" Forbes , April 8, 1996
  • "The Global Economy and the Nation-State", Foreign Affairs , Sept./Oct. 1997
  • "Management's New Paradigms," Forbes , Oct. 5, 1998
  • "Beyond the Information Revolution," Atlantic Monthly , Oct. 1999 "
  • "Innovate or Die. Drucker on Financial Services," The Economist , Sept. 25, 1999
  • "The Next Society: A Survey of the Near Future," The Economist , Nov. 3, 2001

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Peter Drucker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Peter F. Drucker  - Quotations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Härry : Me and Peter Drucker. AufAtmen magazine, Witten, issue 4/2016, page 44.
  2. ^ So the heading of the chapter dedicated to Fritz Kraemer in his autobiography Adventures of a Bystander from 1979; exp. 1998 edition, ("The Man Who Invented Kissinger") pp. 141–157.
  3. ↑ Management by Objectives - the humane corporate success
  4. ↑ http://www.managementdenker.de/44/41351.html
  5. ↑ manager magazin from November 12, 2005: Peter F. Drucker is dead , queried on July 14, 2010
  6. ↑ Der Spiegel , issue 46/2005, page 218 , accessed on July 14, 2010
  7. ↑ Moshidora (TV) - Anime News Network , accessed July 1, 2013
  8. ↑ Drucker in the Dugout: A Japanese Baseball Girl Meets Peter Drucker , accessed on April 23, 2019
  9. ↑ Thomas Härry: Me and Peter Drucker. AutAtmen magazine, Witten 4, 2016, pp. 42–45
  10. ^ The Drucker Institute Archives, Claremont, California, Box 8, Folder 7. Retrieved November 8, 2012 .
  11. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  12. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Drucker, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Printer, Peter Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist of Austrian origin
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 2005
Place of death Claremont , California