Peter Drucker
1909 – 2005 · Austria · Business
Invented management as a discipline and named the knowledge worker.
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- Joseph Schumpeter
1883 – 1950 · Economics, Business
Creative destruction is the frame Drucker gave to management of innovation.
- W. Edwards Deming
1900 – 1993 · Business, Statistics
Quality as a management system, not an inspection step, runs through Drucker's practice.
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