Peter Drucker dead

I am real late with this news but somehow I missed this...

Management guru and arguably the Man Who Invented Management, Peter Drucker, died on Nov 11, 2005 in Claremont, CA at age 95, eight days short of his 96th birthday. Drucker was a Presidential Medal of Freedom awardee in 2002 and taught at New York University as Professor of Management from 1950 to 1971 and rom 1971 till his death, he was the Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at Claremont Graduate University.

(I didn't realize till I read in the wiki entry today that he was not American - he was of Austrian origin - moved to America in 1937 in the face of Naziism's threat and became a naturalized citizen in 1943.)

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You learn something new every day... never heard of the "father of scientific management", Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) before I read about him in the wiki entry for Drucker! Stevens Institute of Technology, where he earned a night-study degree in 1883 houses archives of his papers in the Special Collections section of their library.) Modern management theorists, such as Edward Deming, often credit Taylor, however, with generating the principles upon which they act.

Eldritch Press has his classic work online..
The Principles of Scientific Management,
Copyright © 1911 by Frederick W. Taylor
Published in Norton Library 1967 by arrangement with Harper & Row, Publishers, Incorporated,
by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110,
ISBN 0-393-00398-1, $8.95 paperback

• Introduction...................7KB
• Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Scientific Management...34KB
• Chapter 2: The Principles of Scientific Management..179KB

Here is also a short online biography, at:
http://www.stfrancis.edu/ba/ghkickul/stuwebs/bbios/biograph/fwtaylor.htm

One home page on Taylor as inventor is at:
http://www.ideafinder.com/facts/inventors/taylor.htm

Also can read the text of this seminal work here

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Management consultant, Tom Peters writes about why Drucker was the Right Man for His/Our Times

Also see list below of related reading, cut-n-pasted from the aforementioned wiki entry

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by Peter Drucker

• Thought Leaders Forum: Peter F. Drucker
• The Business According to Peter F. Drucker
• The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management
• Peter F. Drucker: A Biography in Progress
• Peter F. Drucker, a Pioneer in Social and Management Theory, Is Dead at 95 (The New York Times, November 12, 2005)
• The Man Who Invented Management (BusinessWeek)
• Special report on Peter Drucker (The Economist, November 19, 2005)
• The icon-speaks: An interview with Peter Drucker - Interview
• Career moves for ages 20 to 70
• Peter Drucker's at it Again! What He REALLY Thinks about Libraries and Librarians
• Current Commentary on AI and Positive Change: Peter Drucker's Advice for Us on the New Ai Project: Business as an Agent of World Benefit
• The Corporation That Plays Together, Stays Together: An Interview With Peter Drucker
• More links
• Full articles at Peter F. Drucker Foundation [1]
  • Managing Knowledge Means Managing Oneself by Peter F. Drucker
  • The New Pluralism by Peter F. Drucker
  • Civilizing the City by Peter F. Drucker
  • The Shape of Things to Come: An Interview with Peter F. Drucker by Peter F. Drucker