Peter Drucker
I've been carrying around some information on Peter Drucker and intended to write an entry about his profound contributions to the business world. But I was catching up on some blawg reading and ran across Bruce MacEwen's thoughtful comments in his Adam Smith, Esq. blawg and I realized I could not improvde on what he had to say. I found this description particularly apropos:
Drucker's views stemmed from his focus not on corporations in the abstract, or buildings and machines, processes and systems, not in creating elaborate economic or managerial theories: Drucker's focus was on people. Management's job was to chart a course and get out of the way. People were not an expense but a resource.
It seems like a lifetime of contribution deserves more, but we should all raise our glasses to Peter Drucker.