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Management Hall of Fame
Most Respected Management Gurus
Peter F. Drucker
Modern
Management Guru
(1909 -2005)
"Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century -
Hitler, Stalin, and Mao." (Peter F. Drucker)
Key Work
- Gets PhD in Public & International Law, University of Frankfurt,
Germany.
- Works as investment banker in London, UK
- Works as investment advisor and correspondent for Financial News,
USA
- Works as a private consultant to business and on government policy
- Teaches at Sarah Lawrence College;
- Professor at Bennington College, Vermont.
- Spends 18 months interviewing senior management at General Motors,
which produces: The Concept of the Corporation" - Assessing the
weaknesses of GM - Becomes best-seller
- Becomes Professor of Management at New York University Graduate
School of Business.
- Publish more than 33 books published over seven decades
- Founds of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Non-profit Management.
The fundamental difference between Drucker and
GM was the GM saw the workforce as a cost, while Drucker saw them as
a resource. With GM business model he questioned whether the current
corporation policies and procedure would continue to work in a future of
global competition, changing social values, automation, the drive for
quality and the growth of the knowledge worker. He brought attention to
- How the layers of bureaucracy slowed down decision making, and
suggested that the GM hierarchy of commands and controls would be slow
to respond in a rapidly changing future.
- The inefficiency of the assembly line
- How Policies created adversarial labor relations and De-motivation
- The relationship between the employee and the organization
- The need for continual training and retraining and self development
of managers
- The social and environmental responsibility of the organization
- The imperatives of community and customer relations.
In his book the "Practice of Management"
he identified 8 management performance measurements
- Market standing
- Innovation
- Productivity
- Physical and financial resources
- Profitability
- Managers' performance and development
- Workers' performance and attitude
- Public responsibility
Drucker highlights the new realities of changing population demographics,
the emergence of global markets, new world economy and employee
society His identify the new management challenges
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In the knowledge organization, the "supervisor" has to become an
"assistant," a "resource," a "teacher."
- No need for "middle management".
- Top management that will have to restructure itself to meet the
challenges
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Top management will have a lead in social responsibility
Books & References:
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The Future of Industrial Man: A Conservative
Approach . New York: The New American Library, 1965.
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The Practice of Management . New York: Harper
& Row, 1954.
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Managing for Results Economic Tasks and
Risk-taking Decisions. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.
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Concept of the Corporation . New York: New
American Library, 1964.
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The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide
to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials). New York:
Harper & Row, 1967.
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The End of Economic Man. New York: Harper &
Row, 1969.
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Technology, Management and Society. New York:
Harper & Row, 1970.
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Management: Tasks, Responsibilities,
Practices. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
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Managing in Turbulent Times. New York: Harper
& Row, 1980.
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The Changing World of the Executive . New
York: Times Books, 1982.
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Practice and
Principles. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
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The Frontiers of Management: Where Tomorrow's
Decisions Are Being Shaped Today. New York: Truman Talley Books/Dutten,
1986.
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Managing the Non-Profit Organization :
Principles and Practices . New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1990.
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Managing for the Future: The 1990s and Beyond
. New York: Truman Talley Books/Dutten, 1992.
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Managing in a Time of Great Change . New York:
Truman Talley Books/Dutten, 1999.
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