Peter Drucker

Peter Ferdinand Drucker was born in Vienna on November 19, 1909, and became an Austrian American management consultant, educator, and author who laid the philosophical and practical foundations of modern management theory. He led the development of management education and popularized management by objectives and self-control, treating the field as a serious discipline worthy of rigorous study. His books and articles examined how humans organize themselves across business, government, and nonprofits, and his writings predicted privatization, decentralization, Japan's economic rise, the central…