| Peter Ferdinand Drucker |
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| Born | 19 November 1909(1909-11-19)
 Kaasgraben, Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
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| Died | 11 November 2005(2005-11-11) (aged 95)
 Claremont, California |
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| Alma mater | University of Frankfurt |
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| Occupation | Writer, Professor, Management Consultant |
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| Influenced by | Joseph Schumpeter |
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| Influenced | James C. Collins, Andrew Grove, Masatoshi Ito, A. G. Lafley, Shoichiro Toyoda, Jack Welch, Frances Hesselbein, Tadashi Yanai, Rick Warren |
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| Awards | 2002 Presidential Medal of Freedom |
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Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005) was an influential writer, management consultant, and self-described “social ecologist.”
Introduction
Drucker's books and scholarly and popular articles explored how humans are organized across the business, government and the nonprofit sectors of society. He is one of the best-known and most widely influential thinkers and writers on the subject of
management theory and practice. His writings have predicted many of the major developments of the late twentieth century, including privatization and decentralization; the rise of Japan to economic world power; the decisive importance of marketing; and the emergence of the information society with its necessity of lifelong learning. In 1959, Drucker coined the term “
knowledge worker" and later in his life considered
knowledge worker productivity to be the next frontier of management. The annual
Global Peter Drucker Forum in his hometown of
Vienna Austria, honors his legacy.
Biography
Life
Drucker was both on his paternal and his maternal side of Jewish descent, but his parents converted to Christianity and lived in what he referred to as a "liberal" Lutheran Protestant household in
Austria-Hungary. His mother Caroline Bondi had studied medicine and his father Adolf Drucker was a lawyer and high-level civil servant. Drucker was born in
Vienna, the capital of
Austria, in a small village named Kaasgraben (now part of the 19th district of
Vienna,
Döbling). He grew up in a home where intellectuals, high government officials, and scientists would meet to discuss new ideas.
After graduating from Döbling
Gymnasium, Drucker found few opportunities for employment in post-
World War Vienna, so he moved to
Hamburg,
Germany, first working as an apprentice at an established cotton trading company, then as a journalist, writing for
Der Österreichische Volkswirt (
The Austrian Economist).Drucker then moved to
Frankfurt, where he took a job at the Daily
Frankfurter General-Anzeiger.
[10] While in Frankfurt, he also earned a doctorate in
international law and public law from the
University of Frankfurt in 1931.
In 1933, Drucker left Germany for England.
In
London, he worked for an insurance company, then as the chief economist at a private bank.He also reconnected with Doris Schmitz, an acquaintance from the University of Frankfurt whom he married in 1934. The couple permanently relocated to the United States, where he became a university professor as well as a free-lance writer and
business consultant.
In 1943, Drucker became a
naturalized citizen of the
United States. He then had a distinguished career as a teacher, first as a professor of politics and philosophy at
Bennington College from 1942–1949, then for more than twenty years at
New York University as a Professor of
Management from 1950 to 1971.
Drucker came to California in 1971, where he developed one of the country's first executive
MBA programs for working professionals at
Claremont Graduate University (then known as Claremont Graduate School). From 1971 to his death he was the Clarke Professor of
Social Science and
Management at
Claremont Graduate University.
Claremont Graduate University's management school was named the "Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management" in his honor in 1987 (later renamed the "
Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management"). He taught his last class there in 2002 at age 92. Drucker also continued to act as a
consultant to
businesses and
non-profit organizations well into his nineties.
He died November 11, 2005 in
Claremont, California of natural causes at 95.
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