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Peter Drucker, born on November 19, 1909 in Austria and died on November 11, 2005 in the United States, is regarded as the father of modern management. He is one of the greatest management thinkers of the 20th century. Drucker dedicated his life to the study of management theory and practice, and his works have had a profound impact on global enterprise management.

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“A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.”

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Book:Managing for the Future

Source: Managing for the Future

“I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than "making deals." Management affects people and their lives.”

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Book:Managing in a Time of Great Change

Source: Managing in a Time of Great Change

“To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours.”

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Book:The Essential Drucker: Selections from the Management Works of Peter F. Drucker

Source: The Essential Drucker: Selections from the Management Works of Peter F. Drucker

“Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.”

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Book:Managing in a Time of Great Change

Source: Managing in a Time of Great Change

“Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.”

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“Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.”

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“The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.”

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Book:The Practice of Management

Source: The Practice of Management

“Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday.”

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Book:Managing in the Next Society

Source: Managing in the Next Society

“A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.”

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Book:People and Performance

Source: People and Performance

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Born: November 19, 1909
Died: November 11, 2005
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