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Peter Drucker dies

November 14th, 2005 by Michael Moncur in Biography

$The Essential Drucker : The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker\'s Essential Writings on Management$

Peter F. Drucker, known as the “father of modern management,” died Friday at the age of 95. He’s the author of a number of books including “The Effective Executive,” and also the author of some of my favorite quotations.

To learn more about Peter Drucker, see Wikipedia’s biography of Drucker, read more Peter Drucker quotations, or visit the nonprofit foundation he started, the Leader to Leader Institute. A printed compilation of his writings, The Essential Drucker, is also available.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.

Peter Drucker

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Peter Drucker

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