The inaugural Peter Drucker essay contest challenged participants on many levels.
Where are the biggest and most realistic opportunities for innovation and change – and where would they be most needed? How can we be successful in managing those changes?
Essays could focus on specific institutional fields such as public sector, education, corporations, small business, or take a transversal perspective.
Although the essay contest was not be understood as a test on Peter Drucker, a familiarity with Drucker's works and ideas was certainly welcome, and even more so was the ability to apply or re-interpret Drucker's way of thinking in the light of contemporary developments.
Fredmund Malik is one of the most renowned general management experts in the German speaking countries and beyond.
In this exclusive interview, read what he has to say about his collaborations with Peter Drucker, Drucker's contributions to the discipline of business management, and Drucker's legacy.
Peter Drucker saw management as an art and a science that integrates perspectives from the social and behavioural sciences, from philosophy and the humanities, from history and technology and from religion and mathematics.
History was a living and integral element in all Peter Drucker wrote. Without knowing history we don’t understand the present and cannot shape the future. In this journal special issue we get an idea of the breadth and depth of Peter Drucker’s contribution to management thinking and how much we can still benefit from it.
Examining the theoretical inspirations of a management guru
According to a recent book on management gurus, Peter Drucker is one of the few thinkers in any discipline who can claim to have changed the world...
Keeping US companies productive
"US companies can improve productivity and surpass foreign competition." Here are some questions and answers from 1987 that offer insights and creative approaches.
A conversation with Peter Drucker
This special two-part interview from 2004 provides a fascinating insight into the founding father of the study of management as he reflects on his life and career.
Joseph Maciariello
"Working with Peter was the highlight of my professional life." Read more in an interview with Joseph A. Maciariello: Research Director of the Drucker Institute.