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12-1-2005

International Business

Drucker Report

I found this online obituary for Peter Drucker that I thought did a good job summarizing his life in a few lines. Peter F. Drucker, the man who has been credited with pioneering management theory died November 11th 2005. Drucker's work, much at Claremont Graduate University in California, "turned modern management theory into a serious discipline," the university said in announcing his death. "He influenced or created nearly every facet of its application, including decentralization, privatization, empowerment, and understanding of 'the knowledge worker.''" Drucker viewed management as an art. "It deals with people, their values, their growth and development, social structure, the community and even with spiritual concerns ... the nature of humankind, good and evil."
Peter Ferdinand Drucker was born in Vienna, Austria and fled from the Nazis to the United States in 1937. In 1943, he became an official citizen of the......

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