Hello friends, a warm welcome to Workplace Strategy. Last week, we began an episode on Peter Drucker, the Father of Modern Management. Peter Ferdinand Drucker was born in Austria in the city of Vienna in 1909. His far-ranging interests, clear and astute observations across fields as diverse as law, political science, economics, history and society, and his sharp mind and deep insights led the world’s management schools for more than half a century. Today, in Part 2, we share more of his life and views of the man whom some say, invented corporate management.

After he graduated from high school, Drucker left home for Hamburg in Germany. He worked during day as an apprentice at a trading company that exported hardware products to India. In the evening, he sat in a library and read widely. One day, he read a book entitled Fear And Trembling by Danish theologian, Soren Kierkegaard. This book inspired him to see a new dimension in life.

After Drucker left Hamburg, he went on to Frankfurt and enrolled in night school at the University of Frankfurt. He also found himself a job with a local newspaper and worked as a journalist in the day. He made use of his free time to learn about international relations, international law, societal and legal history, finance as well as world history. He was highly self-motivated and quickly expanded his knowledge. He developed the habit of lifelong learning. Throughout his life, Drucker would choose a new discipline for self-learning every 3 or 4 years. This habit allowed him to acquire new disciplines, new insights and new methods, and that helped him stand out as a thinker ahead of his time. From Drucker’s perspective, lifelong learning is possible and necessary. In 1997, when he was 90 years old, Forbes magazine published an article headlining Drucker as the “youngest mind” then.

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