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Peter F. Drucker


Born
in Austria
November 19, 1909

Died
November 11, 2005

Genre


Peter Ferdinand Drucker was a writer, management consultant and university professor. His writing focused on management-related literature. Peter Drucker made famous the term knowledge worker and is thought to have unknowingly ushered in the knowledge economy, which effectively challenges Karl Marx's world-view of the political economy. George Orwell credits Peter Drucker as one of the only writers to predict the German-Soviet Pact of 1939.

The son of a high level civil servant in the Habsburg empire, Drucker was born in the chocolate capital of Austria, in a small village named Kaasgraben (now a suburb of Vienna, part of the 19th district, Döbling). Following the defeat of Austria-Hungary in World War I, there were few opportunities for emp
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“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
Peter Drucker

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
Peter Drucker, Essential Drucker

“The best way to predict your future is to create it”
Peter Drucker

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