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Peter Drucker

<p><b>Peter Ferdinand Drucker</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt"><a href="/en/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English" class="wl">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span>ˈ</span><span>d</span><span>r</span><span>ʌ</span><span>k</span><span>ər</span></span>/</a></span></span>; <small about="#mwt10" typeof="mw:Transclusion" data-mw="{&quot;parts&quot;:[{&quot;template&quot;:{&quot;target&quot;:{&quot;wt&quot;:&quot;IPA-de&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;./Template:IPA-de&quot;},&quot;params&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:{&quot;wt&quot;:&quot;ˈdʀʊkɐ&quot;},&quot;2&quot;:{&quot;wt&quot;:&quot;lang&quot;}},&quot;i&quot;:0}}]}">German:<span> </span></small><span class="IPA"><a href="/en/Help:IPA/Standard_German" title="Help:IPA/Standard German" class="wl">[ˈdʀʊkɐ]</a></span>; November 19, 1909<span>&nbsp;</span>– November 11, 2005) was an Austrian-American  management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business <a href="/en/Corporation" title="Corporation" class="wl">corporation</a>. He was also a leader in the development of management education, he invented the concept known as <a href="/en/Management_by_objectives" title="Management by objectives" class="wl">management by objectives</a> and <a href="/en/Self-control" title="Self-control" class="wl">self-control</a>,<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="#cite_note-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span> and he has been described as "the founder of modern management".<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="#cite_note-2" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[2]</span></a></span></p>

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<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1066479718" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles mw:Transclusion">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-header,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-subheader,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-above,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-title,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-image,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-below{text-align:center}</style><div class='mobile-collapse'><header class="mobile-collapse-header mobile-collapse-btn"><b>Quick facts: Peter Drucker, Born, Died, Alma&nbsp;mater, O...</b> <span class='arrow'>▼</span></header> <table class="infobox biography vcard mobile-collapse-element"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn" style="display:inline">Peter Drucker</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size"><a href="/en/File:Drucker5789.jpg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:Drucker5789.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Drucker5789.jpg/220px-Drucker5789.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="2000" data-file-type="bitmap" height="293" width="220" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Drucker5789.jpg/330px-Drucker5789.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Drucker5789.jpg/440px-Drucker5789.jpg 2x" alt="Drucker5789.jpg"></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Peter Ferdinand Drucker</div><br><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1909-11-19</span>)</span>November 19, 1909<br><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/en/Vienna" title="Vienna" class="wl">Vienna</a>, <a href="/en/Austria-Hungary" title="Austria-Hungary" class="wl">Austria-Hungary</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">November 11, 2005<span style="display:none">(2005-11-11)</span> (aged<span>&nbsp;</span>95)<br><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/en/Claremont,_California" title="Claremont, California" class="wl">Claremont, California</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma<span>&nbsp;</span>mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Goethe_University_Frankfurt" title="Goethe University Frankfurt" class="wl">Goethe University Frankfurt</a> (<a href="/en/PhD" title="PhD" class="mw-redirect wl">PhD</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role">Management consultant, educator and author</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Henry_Laurence_Gantt_Medal" title="Henry Laurence Gantt Medal" class="wl">Henry Laurence Gantt Medal</a> (1959) <br> <a href="/en/Austrian_Cross_of_Honour_for_Science_and_Art,_1st_class" title="Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class" class="mw-redirect wl">Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class</a> (1991) <br> <a href="/en/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" title="Presidential Medal of Freedom" class="wl">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> (2002)</td></tr></tbody></table> <footer class='mobile-collapse-footer mobile-collapse-btn'><b>Close</b> <span class='arrow'>▲</span></footer></div>

<p>Drucker's books and articles, both scholarly and popular, explored how humans are organized across the business, government, and <a href="/en/Nonprofit" title="Nonprofit" class="mw-redirect wl">nonprofit</a> sectors of society.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-druckerinstitute.com_3-0"><a href="#cite_note-druckerinstitute.com-3" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[3]</span></a></span> He is one of the best-known and most widely influential thinkers and writers on the subject of management theory and practice. His writings have predicted many of the major developments of the late twentieth century, including privatization and decentralization; the rise of Japan to economic world power; the decisive importance of marketing; and the emergence of the information society with its necessity of lifelong learning.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-bw2005_4-0"><a href="#cite_note-bw2005-4" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 4;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[4]</span></a></span> In 1959, Drucker coined the term "<a href="/en/Knowledge_worker" title="Knowledge worker" class="wl">knowledge worker</a>", and later in his life considered knowledge-worker productivity to be the next frontier of management.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-5"><a href="#cite_note-5" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[5]</span></a></span></p>



Peter Ferdinand Drucker was an Austrian-American  management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation. He was also a leader in the development of management education, he invented the concept known as management by objectives and self-control, Drucker's books and articles, both scholarly and popular, explored how humans are organized across the business, government, and nonprofit sectors of society. 