There are no backward countries and regions, only backward management. Who said that?

Peter drucker, the godfather of modern management.

Peter drucker was born in Vienna on 1909. His ancestral home was Holland, and later he moved to America. After 1929, I worked as a journalist and economist in an international bank in London. 193 1 obtained the doctor of law from the university of Frankfurt. 65438-0937 immigrated to the United States and worked as an economist and management consultant in some banks, insurance companies and multinational companies. He became an American citizen from 65438 to 0943. Drucker was a professor of philosophy and political science at Benington College and a professor of management at the Graduate School of new york University for more than 20 years. Drucker died at his home in clermont, California on June 1 65438+1October/KLOC-0, 2005, at the age of 95.

From 65438 to 0942, he was hired as a consultant by General Motors, the largest enterprise in the world at that time, to study the internal management structure of the company.

In 1946, he wrote his own experience as "company philosophy", "telling how people with different skills and knowledge work together in a large organization". The important contribution of the book is that Drucker first put forward the concept of "organization", which laid the foundation of histology.

1954 published the Practice of Management and put forward an epoch-making concept-management by objectives. Since then, management as a discipline has been created, thus establishing the status of management master.

1966 published "Effective Managers" to inform readers that not only people who manage others can be called managers. In today's knowledge society, knowledge workers are managers, and managers' work must be effective. Become a must-read classic for top managers.

1973 published the masterpiece Management: Task, Responsibility and Practice, which is a systematic management manual for business operators and a systematic teaching material for students studying management, telling managers that what they put into practice is management, not economics, not measurement methods, not behavioral science. The book is known as the "Bible" of "management".

1982 published "management in the era of great change", and discussed some problems about managers, changes in the connotation of managers' roles, tasks and missions of managers, problems and opportunities faced, and development trends.

1985 published Innovation and Entrepreneurship, which is regarded as one of Drucker's most important works after the publication of Management Practice. The book emphasizes that the current economy has changed from a "management economy" to an "innovative economy".

1999 management challenges in the 20th century was published. Drucker clearly defined the challenge of "new economy" as: improving the productivity of knowledge work.