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Peter Ferdinand Drucker ( / ˈdrʌkər /; German: [ˈdʀʊkɐ]; November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005) was an Austrian American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of modern management theory. He was also a leader in the development of management education, and ...
Peter Drucker. Publisher. HarperCollins. Publication date. 1993. ISBN. 0887306209. Post-Capitalist Society (1993) is a book by management professor and sociologist Peter Drucker. [1]
The Landmarks of Tomorrow is a book by Peter Drucker which appeared in 1959. It describes a change in society which took place between 1937 and 1957, whereby the precepts of the Cartesian worldview no longer hold sway. Cause is no longer the central concept in understanding the world, but rather pattern, purpose and process. [1]
Family quotes from famous people. 11. “In America, there are two classes of travel—first class and with children.”. — Robert Benchley (July 1934) 12. “There is no such thing as fun for ...
In Search of Excellence is a book written by Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr. First published in 1982, it sold three million copies in its first four years, and was the most widely held monograph in the United States from 1989 to 2006. [1] The book explores the art and science of management used by several companies in the 1980s.
Drucker's biographer Jack Beatty referred to it as "a book about business, the way Moby Dick is a book about whaling". In writing and researching the book, Drucker was given access to General Motors resources, paid a full salary, accompanied CEO Alfred P. Sloan to meetings, and was given free run of the company.
Management by objectives (MBO), also known as management by planning (MBP), was first popularized by Peter Drucker in his 1954 book The Practice of Management. Management by objectives is the process of defining specific objectives within an organization that management can convey to organization members, then deciding how to achieve each objective in sequence.
SMART criteria. A variant of the SMART model. S.M.A.R.T. (or SMART) is an acronym used as a mnemonic device to establish criteria for effective goal-setting and objective development. This framework is commonly applied in various fields, including project management, employee performance management, and personal development.