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The Essential Peter Drucker
(from BusinessWeekOnline)
"The world knows he was the greatest management thinker of the last century," Jack Welch, former chairman of General Electric Co., said after Drucker's death.
"He was the creator and inventor of modern management," said management guru Tom Peters. "In the early 1950s, nobody had a tool kit to manage these incredibly complex organizations that had gone out of control. Drucker was the first person to give us a handbook for that."
Adds Intel Corp. co-founder Andrew S. Grove: "Like many philosophers, he spoke in plain language that resonated with ordinary managers. Consequently, simple statements from him have influenced untold numbers of daily actions; they did mine over decades."
The story of Peter Drucker is the story of management itself. It's the story of the rise of the modern corporation and the managers who organize work. Without his analysis it's almost impossible to imagine the rise of dispersed, globe-spanning corporations.
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posted by Unknown @ Friday, November 18, 2005,
