Peter F. Drucker

T1Strategists Management and organisation

Austrian-American consultant, educator and author whose writing laid foundations of modern management theory and popularised management by objectives. Died in 2005.

Bennington NYU Claremont Graduate University

Drucker Institute, Claremont Graduate University

He invented management as a field of study, and The Practice of Management and The Effective Executive remain the primary sources every later writer builds on.

41 books of their own · 14 articles

Books 41 Writing 14 Profiles 4

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The End of Economic Man

T4 The End of Economic Man

Peter F. Drucker · 1939


The End of Economic Man	–	1939		–
The Future of Industrial Man	–	1942		–
Concept of the Corporation	Eighteen months inside General Motors: the large corporation as a social institution.	1946	T1	–
The New Society	–	1949	T4	–
The Practice of Management	Management as a discipline: business purpose, objectives and managing managers.	1954	T1	–
America's Next Twenty Years	–	1957	T4	–
Landmarks of Tomorrow	–	1957		–
Managing for Results	–	1964	T4	–
The Effective Executive	Effectiveness is learned practice: manage time, pick priorities, decide well.	1967	T1	Ev Williams, Nat Eliason, David Cancel and 5 others
The Age of Discontinuity	Four breaks with the postwar world, from a global economy to knowledge as capital.	1969	T4	Patrick Collison
Technology, Management and Society	–	1970	T4	Patrick Collison
Men, Ideas and Politics	–	1971		–
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices	–	1973	T4	–
The Pension Fund Revolution	How employee pension funds came to own a controlling share of American industry.	1976	T4	–
People and Performance	Selected essays on management	1977	T4	–
An Introductory View of Management	–	1977	T4	–
Adventures of a Bystander	A memoir told through portraits of the people the author knew, from Vienna on.	1979	T4	Mohnish Pabrai, Stewart Brand
Managing in Turbulent Times	–	1980	T4	–
Toward the Next Economics and Other Essays	–	1981	T4	–
The Changing World of the Executive	–	1982	T4	–
The Last of All Possible Worlds	Novel	1982		–
The Temptation to Do Good	Novel	1984		–
Innovation and Entrepreneurship	Innovation as a learnable discipline, with seven sources of opportunity to search.	1985	T1	Patrick Collison, Matt Mullenweg, Patrick O'Shaughnessy
The Frontiers of Management	–	1986	T4	–
The New Realities	–	1989		–
Managing the Non-Profit Organization	–	1990	T4	–
Drucker in the Harvard Business Review, 1963-1989	Collected HBR articles	1991	T4	–
Managing for the Future	–	1992	T4	–
The Ecological Vision	Essays on 'social ecology': how societies and institutions change, Japan included.	1993	T4	–
Post-Capitalist Society	–	1993	T4	–
Managing in a Time of Great Change	–	1995	T4	–
Drucker on Asia	A dialogue conducted by correspondence	1997	T4	–
Peter Drucker on the Profession of Management	–	1998	T4	–
Management Challenges for the 21st Century	–	1999	T4	–
The Essential Drucker	Anthology selected from sixty years of writing	2001	T4	–
Managing in the Next Society	–	2002	T4	–
A Functioning Society	Selections on community and society	2003	T4	–
The Daily Drucker	–	2004	T4	–
Classic Drucker	Posthumous HBR collection	2006	T4	–
Management Cases	Revised edition prepared with Joseph A. Maciariello	2008	T4	–
Managing Oneself	Knowledge workers must run their own careers by knowing their strengths and values.	2008	T4	Nat Eliason, Patrick Collison, Patrick O'Shaughnessy and 2 others


Managing Oneself	Harvard Business Review	2005
What Makes an Effective Executive	Harvard Business Review	2004
They're Not Employees, They're People	Harvard Business Review	2002
The Discipline of Innovation	Harvard Business Review	2002
Looking Ahead: Implications of the Present	Harvard Business Review	1997
The Information Executives Truly Need	Harvard Business Review	1995
The Theory of the Business	Harvard Business Review	1994
The Post-Capitalist Executive: An Interview with Peter F. Drucker	Harvard Business Review	1993
The Coming of the New Organization	Harvard Business Review	1988
Management and the World's Work	Harvard Business Review	1988
How to Make People Decisions	Harvard Business Review	1985
What We Can Learn from Japanese Management	Harvard Business Review	1971
The Effective Decision	Harvard Business Review	1967
Managing for Business Effectiveness	Harvard Business Review	1963


Peter Drucker Paywall	The Economist	2008
Peter F. Drucker, a Pioneer in Social and Management Theory, Is Dead at 95 Paywall	The New York Times	2005
Peter Drucker On Leadership	Forbes	2004
Seeing things as they really are	Forbes	1997

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