PETER FERDINAND DRUCKER

Peter Ferdinand Drucker

Peter Ferdinand Drucker

Peter Ferdinand Drucker, was Austrian by birth in Vienna on November 19, 1909, and American nationality by adoption. His ancestors were printers in Holland in German means Printer Drucker, and hence derives its name. Drucker died in 2005 at age 95. He spent 65 of them formulated theories of administration, tired forehead, as a tireless worker knowledge. He left his mark on works of his great intelligence and untiring activity. Today is widely considered the father of management as a discipline and is still under study in the most prestigious business schools.

Introduction

Drucker is considered the most successful of the exponents in management issues, ideas and idioms are influencing the corporate world since the 40's. Drucker was the first social scientist to use the term "post-modernity." Peter Drucker has been the world's most influential thinker in the field of business administration. The richness of his thought is the product of his personality. It was regular contributor to magazines like The Atlantic Monthly and was a columnist for The Wall Street Journal from 1975 to 1995. His first work as a consultant published in 1940. Since then has worked extensively in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia, for large enterprises, government agencies and nonprofit organizations.

He was also honorary president of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management. He also worked as teach at Sarah Lawrence College in New York from 1939 to 1949, and Bennington College in Vermont from 1942 to 1947. In 1971 he was appointed professor (clarke) social science and administration at the Graduate School of Management at Claremont University.

Main Body

He worked as a journalist in Germany, mixing his business with politics from 1920 until the fall of the Weimar Republic. His lectures are crowded, hated all kinds of compliments. It was plain, simple, visionary, poignant and vital. He had a long and fruitful life as a knowledge worker. Between 1975 and 1995 he was editor of the Wall Street Journal, a partner in the Harvard Business Review. Drucker recognized that their profile is not an economist, or executive, his main interest is people. In 1933 he went to London, worked in a bank and a former student of Maynard Keynes earlier in Bonn was a student of Joseph Schumpeter, and was the last person who is alive and took classes with these two great figures. "Both Keynes and Schumpeter have a lot to teach us, but more in the way we think economically in relation to their specific theories, as economic theory the bug where it was applied Keynesianism, Schumpeter never had a policy, if it was true the notion that the imbalance is the normal state of health of the economy. At age 31, began life as a consultant for Multinational Enterprises in General Motors, when it began to shape management theory, management trends and the knowledge society. "The best structure will not guarantee results, nor performance. But the wrong structure is a guarantee of failure "or" Do ...