Peter F Drucker, Father of Modern Management is no more.
Peter F. Drucker, considered as father of Modern Management, died on
Friday at the age of 95 at his home east of Los Angeles of natural
causes.
Business and academia experts revered Drucker as the founding father
of the study of management .His numerous books and articles stressing
innovation, entrepreneurship and strategies for the changing world in
simple language resonated with ordinary managers.
Drucker gave a considerable shift to the theory of management science
by focusing on human resources unlike the follower of scientific
management where the key emphasis was on productivity.
On the occasion of his 90th birthday, he described his work and said
: "I looked at people, not at machines or buildings," . This approach
led to nearly three dozen books and thousands of articles which is a
guide to the 20th-century economy. Modern management is different, he
said. "Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to
make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant,"
During his tenure as an author, professor and consultant to some of
America's biggest corporations, Mr. Drucker challenged people's
thinking about organizations and popularized the concept of the
post-industrial "knowledge worker."
Born in Vienna, Austria, studied at universities in Hamburg and
Frankfurt, Germany. He received a doctorate in international law while
working as a newspaper reporter in Frankfurt, Germany. He remained in
Germany until 1933, when one of his essays on a leading conservative
philosopher angered the new Nazi government and was banned by the
regime. After working as an economist for a bank in London, he moved
to the United States in 1937.
In 2002, Drucker was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has
been called "the world's foremost pioneer of management theory" and
leader of concepts such as privatization, management by objective and
decentralization.
Mr. Drucker is survived by his wife, a son, & three daughters.
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