Peter Drucker: The Father of Modern Management Non-profit organization, corporate corporation, management by objectives, are all terms used and taught today and they all have something in common. What do you ask? Peter Drucker. He was the man behind all these ideas and their growth into what they have become today. He has been given many titles, including "The Man Who Invented the Corporate Corporation" and "The Father of Management Principles." The article, Drucker (2005), stated that Peter had been “hailed by Business Week as “'the most enduring management thinker of our time'” (p. 1). Peter Ferdinand Drucker was born on November 19, 1909 in Kaasgraben, a suburb of Vienna, Austria. Peter's father, Adolf, worked for the Austrian government until 1938, when Hitler invaded. After the invasion, Adolf came to the United States and became a professor of international economics at two universities and a professor of European literature at the University of California until his death in 1967. Caroline, Peter's mother, was one of the first women in Austria he studies medicine. As a boy, Peter attended many dinners hosted by his parents. Since Adolf worked in government, the typical guest list included intellectuals, government officials, and scientists. It would be common to have guests including Sigmund Freud and Joseph Schumpeter. In 1927, Drucker graduated from high school and went to work as a junior clerk in export houses. He moved to Frankfurt in 1929 and shortly thereafter received his doctorate in public law and international relations from the University of Frankfurt. One of Peter's early writings, Conservative Political Theory and Historical Change, was banned by the Nazis. Drucker moved to England in 1933 after… middle of paper… favoring the companies rather than the results they were producing. “He sought not only to make our economy more productive, but to make all of society more productive and more humane,” wrote Collins (2010). He realized long before it became popular that morality is the foundation of management. “Viewing other human beings simply as means to an end, rather than as ends themselves, struck Drucker as profoundly immoral,” Collins (2010) stated. Drucker taught and encouraged executives to be an authentic leader. An authentic leader “must be aware of, feel comfortable with, and act in a manner consistent with his or her values, personality, and self-concept” (pp. 354-355) according to McShane and Van Glinow (2013). Peter himself was an authentic leader. Not only did he practice what he preached in terms of leadership, but he also suggested that the executives he was consulting do the same.