Peter Drucker

Peter Ferdinand Drucker ( born November 19, 1909 in Vienna, † 11 November, 2005 Claremont ) was an American economist of Austrian origin. Since the 1940s, he has published numerous influential works on the theory and practice of management. He is considered a pioneer of modern management theory and as an original and independent thinker. Printer strove in his works of clarity and. At a scientific apparatus and staff he did not expand.

Life

The Vienna grew up as the son of a prominent Jewish family printer studied in the 1920s at the University of Hamburg and then went to Frankfurt, where he studied law and history and editor of International Relations and Economics at the Frankfurt General-Anzeiger was. As a law student in Frankfurt he met the later U.S. geo-strategists Fritz Kraemer, with whom he remained lifelong friends. Printer Kraemer described in his autobiography as " the man who invented Kissinger ". Printer as it was, the Kraemer after his emigration to the USA in 1939 gave access to high-level safety circuits and so much to promote their career in the U.S. Department of Defense or only allowed. He received his doctorate in Frankfurt. Carl Schmitt offered him to look after his habilitation dissertation, of which only a section on Friedrich Julius Stahl was completed.

In 1933 he emigrated to England after one of his works had been burned by the Nazis, where he worked in London, among others for the Financial Times. In 1937 he moved to the USA and became professor of philosophy and politics at Bennington College in Bennington (Vermont ). In 1939 he published his book The End of Economic Man, in which he tried to explain the phenomenon of fascism with an existence- philosophical approach. In 1943 he became a U.S. citizen. In 1945, he wrote in one of his classic works Bennington, Concept of the Corporation.

Peter Drucker moved in 1950 to the New York University and worked in the following years in numerous publications on management theory, wrote regularly for the Wall Street Journal and worked as an advisor to many international companies such as General Motors and Sears Roebuck.

In 1954 he formulated the "Management by objectives" ( MBO ) or " Management by Objectives ". It is a now widely used method of business administration for employee management and development of their own initiative.

In 1971 he moved to Claremont Graduate University near Los Angeles. There, the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont University was established, which awards the Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation ( award for innovation in the non- profit sector oriented ) annually.

On 9 July 2002 printer was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award of the USA, George W. Bush. In several rankings, he was elected the most influential management thinkers of all time.

Printer stopped marketing and innovation for more significant key to corporate success than profit motive. He also sat on motivated employees in the future competition of enterprises. Of the stock brokers on Wall Street, he did not think much. If Broker cheaper sections as investors, a crash announce that he was convinced. Some of the terms first used by him are entered into the vernacular, such as " knowledge workers " or "core competence". Of concepts such as " Business Process Reengineering ", " value stream mapping " or "Six Sigma", Drucker had little influence.

His works have had an impact on a Japanese novel with the name " Moshi Koukou Yakyuu no Joshi Manager ga printer no 'Management' where Yondara " ( What if the manager of a high school baseball teams Printer " management " were reading? ) To the also an eponymous anime and a real movie appeared.

Publications

  • The End of Economic Man, New York: John Day Co., 1939 German edition as origins of totalitarianism: the end of homo economicus, Carolingian, Vienna / Leipzig 2010 ISBN 978-3-85418-140-8
  • German edition as The future of industrial society, Dusseldorf: Econ, 1967
  • German edition as the large companies, Dusseldorf: Econ, 1966
  • German edition: The Practice of Management. Dusseldorf: Econ, 1956, 1970 & 1998
  • German edition as The Effective Executive: gain effectiveness and ability to act in the lead role, Munich 2014
  • German edition: management in the 21st century, Dusseldorf: Econ, 1999, ISBN 3430122384
  • German edition: What is management - The best of 50 years. Munich, Econ Ullstein List Verlag, 2002
  • German edition: The five key issues of management, Weinheim, Wiley -VCH Verlag, 2009

Papers

(since 1996)

  • "Five Years Ago in 'The Corporate Board ' ", The Corporate Board, May- June 1996
  • "Leaders Are Doers ", Executive Excellence, April 1996
  • "Management Is Not a Technique", Across the Board, Jan. 1996
  • " Not Enough Generals Were Killed ," Forbes, April 8, 1996
  • "The Global Economy and the Nation - State," Foreign Affairs, Sept. / Oct. 1997
  • "Management 's New Paradigms ", Forbes, Oct. 5, 1998
  • "Beyond the Information Revolution ", Atlantic Monthly, Oct. 1999 "
  • " Innovate or Die. Printer on Financial Services," The Economist, Sept. 25, 1999
  • "The Next Society: A Survey of the Near Future ," The Economist, November 3, 2001

Awards

Literature on Peter Drucker

  • Tony H. Bonaparte, John E. Flaherty (ed.): Peter Drucker. Contributions to business enterprise. New York University Press, New York, 1970, ISBN 0-8147-0951-6
  • John E. Flaherty: Peter Drucker. Shaping the managerial least Jossey -Bass, San Francisco 1999, ISBN 0787947644 ( biography with bibliography )
  • Peter Drucker: Key years. Stages of my life. Campus, Frankfurt am Main, inter alia, 2001, ISBN 3-593-36771-8 ( autobiography )
  • Winfried W. Weber ( eds.): Peter Drucker - the man who coined the management. Memories and outlook for the 100th birthday. Sordon, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-981022858
643747
de