Peter Drucker

I see that Peter Drucker died yesterday, a week before his 96th birthday. I only ever met him once - I attended a seminar he led part of, in Brussels I believe, in the late 80s. He sat on the table at the front of the room and talked to his audience for three or four hours. No notes, no lectern, maybe a few slides - I forget. He was enormously engaging. I can still remember that he talked about the fourth wave of development being information led (though not much else).

That aside, he was directly and indirectly possibly the greatest single influence on the style of management I experienced for the most part of my career. He wasn't the first, nor the only management theorist - but he was arguably the most widely read and the most followed.

I acknowlege the passing of a man that I learned much from and admired greatly.