Biography

Drucker was born in Vienna, and his life was made up of two four-part journeys, one geographical and one intellectual.  His geographical journey comprises Vienna (1909-1926), Hamburg and Frankfurt (1926-1933), London (1933-1937) and USA (1937-2005).

During this journey he discovered: the Christian-based ethics that underscored all of his work; then his workable society; followed by his economics, which he originally believed completed the view of industrial man; only to discover that economics was not the life-giving element in our society of organisations – it was the manager.

Having made his discovery he then spent his life integrating his fixed ethics, established economics, transient society, altogether with his management ideas.  The most famous of those was his Management by Objectives (MbO) and Self Control which is an all accommodating fully integrated faculty for the activities of management.

In a multi-faceted career, he still led a balanced life and never lost his priority – the importance of people. His epitaph "The Father of Modern Management" is fully justified as his influence lives on in the Drucker Societies throughout the world.

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