Peter Drucker

Dr. Peter Ferdinand Drucker is the Rankin Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Drucker is widely known as the most prescient business thinker of his time. His 31 books have been translated into more than 20 languages. Among his publications are such classics as: The Effective Executive; The Practice of Management; and Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices. Dr. Drucker has served as consultant to numerous governments, public service institutions, and major corporations.

Dr. Drucker envisions significant changes to the driving forces of economies, and to the societies that depend on them. Information and knowledge will play increasingly important roles. Automation and informating technologies will deliver value from information and knowledge by supporting increased productivity. Contrary to conventional wisdom, though, he believes that knowledge workers, rather than corporate capitalists or business executives, will be the ultimate beneficiaries of the trend toward maximizing productivity.

Dr. Drucker organizes online management consulting lectures at the web site of corpedia.com. Peter Drucker is considered as ìThe Father of Post-war Managementî. Peter Drucker is accepted by both practicing managers and writers throughout the world as The Management Guru. He dislikes the term guru - likening it to charlatan - and prefers to be known as a writer. He does not claim to have invented management - something which he, in fact, attributes to Frederick Winslow Taylor. Drucker does concede, however, that he discovered management, not merely as a discipline, rather as a way of life that is central to the well being of society as well as to the economy.

Throughout his long career he has shown interests as diverse as journalism, art appreciation, mountaineering, reading and drawing inspiration from - the works of Jane Austen, and, of course, management teaching, writing and consultancy. With over 33 books published over seven decades (and translated into at least 30 languages), Drucker is, by common consent, the founding father of modern management studies.