Peter Drucker
During my Master’s program at University of Iowa, the business course for librarians focused heavily on Peter Drucker’s work. Peter died on Remembrance Day and his obituaries can be found at Business Week and Bloomberg.
He was a remarkable man who often saw well into the future, made many mistakes, put into usage the terms “knowledge worker” and “management by objectives”, and had a fascinating history. See his interview in the third edition of Wired.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.03/drucker.html He was a complex man who walked his talk. When Hitler came to power, he objected. Read this interesting part of his history in Bloomberg. It’s amazing how often I have quoted Peter Drucker over the past 20 years.
