A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World’s Greatest Management Teacher

Appendix . Afterword

Peter Drucker is gone, but his deeds, achievements, accomplishments, and contributions live after him, and they are significant. As Peter himself said when he first started writing about management, if you went into a bookstore and asked for books on the subject, you might find a few slim volumes if you were lucky. Today, you cannot go into even a medium-sized bookstore without finding an entire shelf filled with books on every aspect of management. This fact is largely due to Peter. He truly was the Father of Modern Management.

Drucker was the one who created management as a discipline considered worthy of study, not only in business, but by governments, universities, and organizations of every kind. Peter not only changed ...