!!!Drucker, Peter Ferdinand

b. Vienna, Nov. 19, 1909, management consultant, "father of modern 
management theory". From the 1920s worked in Germany as journalist and 
international lawyer, emigrated to Britain in 1933, where he attended 
classes held by J.M. Keynes, and moved to the USA in 1939. Consultant 
to major industrial groups (General Motors and others), earned a 
world-wide reputation as a teacher and author of more than 25 books. 
Identified'' ''and decisively influenced significant developments in 
20th century business management (e.g. rejection of authoritarian 
management practices) and generally studied issues of societal 
development. Awarded the Austrian Prize for Outstanding Achievement in 
the Arts and Sciences in 1999.

!Works
The Practice of Management, 1954 (Die Praxis des Managements, 
1970, 1998); The Landmarks of Tomorrow, undated (Das Fundament fuer 
morgen, 1958); The Effective Executive, 1967 (Die ideale 
Fuehrungskraft, 1967); The Age of Discontinuity, 1969 (Die Zukunft 
bewaeltigen, 1969); Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, 
1973 (Neue Management-Praxis, 2 vols., 1974); Post-Capitalist 
Society, 1993 (Die postkapitalistische Gesellschaft, 1993); Management 
Challenges for the 21st Century, 1999 (Management im 
21. Jahrhundert, 1999).

!Literature
J. Beatty, The World According to P. D., 1998 (Die 
Welt des P. D., 1998).


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