ABOUT PETER F. DRUCKER

Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1909, Peter F. Drucker was a writer, professor, management consultant, and self-described “social ecologist,” who explored the way human beings organize themselves and interact much the way an ecologist would observe and analyze the biological world.

Hailed by BusinessWeek as “the man who invented management,” Drucker directly influenced a huge number of leaders from a wide range of organizations across all sectors of society. Among the many: the White House, General Electric, IBM, Intel, Procter & Gamble, Girl Scouts of the USA, the Salvation Army, Red Cross, and the United Farm Workers.

Drucker’s 39 books, along with his countless scholarly and popular articles, predicted many of the major ...

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