"The best way to predict the future is to create it." Peter Drucker
Peter Drucker was a writer, professor and management consultant. He explored the way human beings organize themselves and interact. He was described him as “the man who invented management,” who influenced a huge number of leaders from a wide range of organizations across all sectors of society.
His 39 books, along with countless scholarly and popular articles, predicted many of the major developments of the late 20th century, the rise of Japan to economic power, the decisive importance of marketing and innovation, and the emergence of the information society with its necessity of lifelong learning, leading him to coin the term “knowledge worker.” He spent the rest of his life examining an age in which an large number of people use their brains more than their backs.
Throughout, Drucker called for balance—between short-term needs and long-term sustainability; between profitability and other obligations; between the specific mission of individual organizations and the common good; between freedom and responsibility.
Drucker’s first major work, The End of Economic Man, was published in 1939. After reading it, Winston Churchill described Drucker as “one of those writers to whom almost anything can be forgiven because he not only has a mind of his own, but has the gift of starting other minds along a stimulating line of thought.”
Driven by an insatiable curiosity about the world around him—and a deep desire to make that world a better place.
The one thing that I share with Peter Drucker is that like him before me, I came to America looking for an opportunity and a better life.
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