The concept of a company

Author: (USA) Peter F. Drucker
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: Peter F. Drucker's question, "What do you want to be?" is a well-known Drucker-esque question in modern management. Peter F. Drucker, revered as the "Father of Management," was born in Vienna in 1909 and completed his education in Austria and the United Kingdom. From 1929, he worked as a foreign correspondent for a newspaper and also wrote economic commentaries for an international bank in London. Starting in 1939, he moved to the United States to serve as an economic analyst for a British banking and insurance group, soon becoming a renowned management consultant for several major American and multinational companies. He then taught at the Institute of Management Studies at New York University for over two decades. Drucker was a prolific author, with works covering the nature of industrial society, the fundamentals of business management, and technological change, among other topics. His insights were profound and incisive, with each of his books setting milestones in management and establishing his reputation as the "immortal master of modern management thought in the world."