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Peter Drucker Discussing The Work of Juran, Deming and Himself

In this clip Peter Drucker talks about Japan and his work there as well as the work of W. Edwards Deming and Joseph Juran. His discussion highlights how he remembers the Japanese were so willing to take new ideas and … Continue reading

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Customers Are Often Irrational

Penney Pinching “The first rule is that there are no irrational customers,” Drucker wrote in Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices. “Customers almost without exception behave rationally in terms of their own realities and their own situation.” “in terms of their own … Continue reading

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Drucker’s Ideas at Toyota

The Drucker difference and Toyota’s success [the broken link was removed] by Ira A. Jackson, dean of the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, the business school of the Claremont Colleges. Because of this core belief in the power … Continue reading

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Drucker Opinion Essays from the WSJ

The Wall Street Journal has posted selected opinion essays by Peter Drucker [the broken link was removed] along with several tributes to Drucker. The Five Deadly Business Sins (article removed so link removed), 1993: the worship of high profit margins … Continue reading

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Google: Ten Golden Rules

Google: Ten Golden Rules [the broken link was removed] by Eric Schmidt and Hal Varian: At google, we think business guru Peter Drucker well understood how to manage the new breed of “knowledge workers.” After all, Drucker invented the term … Continue reading

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The Economist on Drucker

Trusting the teacher in the grey-flannel suit: He was a harsh critic of the assembly-line system of production that then dominated the manufacturing sector – —partly because assembly lines moved at the speed of the slowest and partly because they … Continue reading

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Laurence Haughton on Peter Drucker

Laurence Haughton on Peter Drucker [the broken link was removed]: He criticized organizations who issued directives to “cut 5 or 10 percent from budgets across the board.” … And I’ll bet others can find 100 additional quoted and ignored lessons … Continue reading

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The Man Who Invented Management

The Man Who Invented Management [the broken link was removed], a cover story in Business Week on Peter Drucker. Posts related to Peter Drucker.

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Management Pioneer Peter Drucker 1909 – 2005

Management expert Peter Drucker passed away at age 95. See: Peter F. Drucker Information from Claremount University [the broken link was removed] and our previous post. Here we list links to some of his work. There is an excellent podcast … Continue reading

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Management Guru Peter Drucker 1909-2005

Management expert Peter Drucker passed away at age 95. Peter F. Drucker Information from Claremount University [the broken link was removed]. In 2002, Peter Ferdinand Drucker was awarded the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom. Drucker, was born in Vienna, … Continue reading

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