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Peter Drucker wrote the first version of this book during Hitler's rise to power. Most explanations for the rise of fascism focused on political reasons or economic ones, while Drucker explains the social movements that made leaders like Mussolini and Hitler possible. It also explains what is (and isn't) fascism, how they hobble their own economies, and the social warpage they create. Peter Drucker updated "The End of Economic Man" in the 1960s, seeing horrifying parallels between the 1960s activism and the 1930s. And while history does not repeat, it rhymes - and this book explains the social trends that...

The modern university is a relic that will disappear in a few decades. That prediction was made by Peter Drucker, the management genius who just died at 95 and usually got things right. His words brought an uncharitable smile to my face as I recently strolled across the ivied campus of Brown University, in Providence, R.I. At the time, maintenance crews were busy removing leaves. Campus officials were still dealing with the aftermath of an especially drunken Saturday night. And most everyone was excited that the football team had taken the Ivy League championship. No doubt, some education was going...

Peter Drucker, the most influential management writer of the modern era, has died age 95. A spokesman for the Claremont Graduate University in California, where Prof Drucker worked since the 1971, said he died peacefully on Friday morning after a short illness. Prof Drucker remained active until the end of his life. Earlier this year he was honoured with the McKinsey Award for the best article published in the Harvard Business Review during 2004. He had just finished collaborating with colleagues on a reworking of the ideas contained in The Effective Executive, first published in 1966. Peter Ferdinand Drucker was...

Some of life’s turning points are obvious. Others come as a surprise, like being hit from behind by a truck. I had an obvious one last week. I became a coot. I applied for early retirement on Social Security. That means I have to buy a beige cardigan and wear it with the buttons mismatched. I have to belt my pants ten inches above my belly button. I’ll start losing hair from my head, which will reappear in my nose and ears. I’m officially an old coot. But that’s not what I came to talk about. I came to talk...

Management man turns 95 Drucker still influences CEOs By JOE FLORKOWSKI STAFF WRITER CLAREMONT - Whatever you do, don't call Peter Drucker "the father of management." Although the Claremont resident is oft credited with introducing management theory to America, Drucker scoffs at being labeled the father of modern management. "It's simply nonsense - and it annoys me," Drucker wrote in a faxed response to interview questions. "I am at best the great grandson." Drucker cites three or four people who introduced management theories to America and theorizes its study goes back to the late-eighties. The late 1880s, that is. The...

I was reading this post - Peter Drucker Sets Us Straight ( On jobs, debt, globalization, and recession) - and the responses and I had some ideas that I thought might fit into another thread. First off, I want to make it clear that I know barely next to nothing about economies nor am I on the same level as Peter Drucker (I never heard of him until this post) or a lot of you guys and gals on Free Republic. I just have some thoughts I would like to share.Answer: Nobody seems to realize that we have the highest...

You can always count on Peter Drucker to provide a new way of looking at things. After all, he is the man who first recognized that management is a discipline worthy of deep and formal study. Long before anyone else—in the early 1950s, no less—he predicted how computer technology would one day thoroughly transform business. In 1961 he presciently called attention to the rise of Japan as an industrial power, and two decades later he warned of its impending economic stagnation. And we can thank him for coining the concepts of "privatization," "knowledge workers," and "management by objective." At 94,...