43 Facts About Drucker Institute

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Peter Ferdinand Drucker Institute was an Austrian-American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation.

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Drucker Institute was a leader in the development of management education, he invented the concept known as management by objectives and self-control, and he has been described as "the founder of modern management".

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Drucker Institute is one of the best-known and most widely influential thinkers and writers on the subject of management theory and practice.

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Drucker Institute's writings have predicted many of the major developments of the late twentieth century, including privatization and decentralization; the rise of Japan to economic world power; the decisive importance of marketing; and the emergence of the information society with its necessity of lifelong learning.

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In 1959, Drucker Institute coined the term "knowledge worker", and later in his life considered knowledge-worker productivity to be the next frontier of management.

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Drucker Institute grew up in what he referred to as a "liberal" Lutheran Protestant household in Austria-Hungary.

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Drucker Institute's mother Caroline Bondi had studied medicine and his father Adolf Drucker was a lawyer and high-level civil servant.

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Drucker Institute was born in Vienna, Austria, in the 19th district of Vienna-Dobling.

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Drucker Institute grew up in a home where intellectuals, high government officials, and scientists would meet to discuss new ideas.

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Drucker Institute then moved to Frankfurt, where he took a job at the Daily Frankfurter General-Anzeiger.

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Drucker Institute reconnected with Doris Schmitz, an acquaintance from the University of Frankfurt, and they married in 1934.

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Drucker Institute then had a distinguished career as a teacher, first as a professor of politics and philosophy at Bennington College from 1942 to 1949, then twenty-two years at New York University as a Professor of Management from 1950 to 1971.

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Drucker Institute went to California in 1971, where he developed one of the country's first executive MBA programs for working professionals at Claremont Graduate University .

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Drucker Institute established the Drucker Archives at Claremont Graduate University in 1999; the Archives became the Drucker Institute in 2006.

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Drucker Institute continued to act as a consultant to businesses and nonprofit organizations well into his nineties.

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Drucker Institute was influenced, in a much different way, by John Maynard Keynes, whom he heard lecture in 1934 in Cambridge.

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Drucker Institute's books were filled with lessons on how organizations can bring out the best in people, and how workers can find a sense of community and dignity in a modern society organized around large institutions.

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Drucker Institute shared his fascination with Donaldson Brown, the mastermind behind the administrative controls at GM.

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Drucker Institute attended every board meeting, interviewed employees, and analyzed production and decision-making processes.

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Drucker Institute had suggested that the auto giant might want to re-examine a host of long-standing policies on customer relations, dealer relations, employee relations and more.

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Drucker Institute taught that management is "a liberal art", and he infused his management advice with interdisciplinary lessons from history, sociology, psychology, philosophy, culture and religion.

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Drucker Institute believed strongly that all institutions, including those in the private sector, have a responsibility to the whole of society.

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Drucker Institute was interested in the growing effect of people who worked with their minds rather than their hands.

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Drucker Institute was intrigued by employees who knew more about certain subjects than their bosses or colleagues, and yet had to cooperate with others in a large organization.

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Rather than simply glorify the phenomenon as the epitome of human progress, Drucker Institute analyzed it, and explained how it challenged the common thinking about how organizations should be run.

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Drucker Institute's approach worked well in the increasingly mature business world of the second half of the twentieth century.

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Executives thought they knew how to run companies, and Drucker Institute took it upon himself to poke holes in their beliefs, lest organizations become stale.

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Drucker Institute assumed that his readers were intelligent, rational, hardworking people of good will.

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Drucker Institute developed an extensive consulting business built around his personal relationship with top management.

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Drucker Institute became legendary among many of post-war Japan's new business leaders trying to rebuild their war-torn homeland.

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Drucker Institute advised the heads of General Motors, Sears, General Electric, W R Grace and IBM, among many others.

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Drucker Institute's advice was eagerly sought by the senior executives of the Adela Investment Company, a private initiative of the world's multinational corporations to promote investment in the developing countries of Latin America.

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Drucker Institute is the co-author of a book on Japanese painting, and made eight series of educational films on management topics.

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Drucker Institute penned a regular column in the Wall Street Journal for 10 years and contributed frequently to the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Economist.

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Drucker Institute's work is especially popular in Japan, even more so after the publication of "What If the Female Manager of a High-School Baseball Team Read Drucker's Management", a novel that features the main character using one of his books to great effect, which was adapted into an anime and a live action film.

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Drucker Institute was off the mark, for example, when he told an audience that the English language was the official language for all employees at Japan's Mitsui trading company.

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Also, while Drucker Institute was known for his prescience, he was not always correct in his forecasts.

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Drucker Institute predicted, for instance, that the United States' financial center would shift from New York to Washington.

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Drucker Institute was inducted into the Junior Achievement US Business Hall of Fame in 1996.

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Drucker Institute received 25 honorary doctorates from American, Belgian, Czech, English, Spanish and Swiss universities.

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Drucker Institute was posthumously honored when he was inducted into the Outsourcing Hall of Fame in recognition of his outstanding contributions in the field.

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In 2018, Drucker Institute was named the world's most influential business thinker on the Thinkers50.

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Annual Global Peter Drucker Institute Forum was first held in 2009, the centenary of Drucker Institute's birth.

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