{"id":156,"date":"2005-11-11T23:14:36","date_gmt":"2005-11-12T06:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=156"},"modified":"2005-11-11T23:14:36","modified_gmt":"2005-11-12T06:14:36","slug":"peter_drucker_r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Peter Drucker, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had almost come to believe that Peter Drucker was immortal, but sadly it&#8217;s not so. He died earlier today, at 95. Drucker was one of the great writers on business and management, who over the course of 70 years tirelessly championed the dignity and the intelligence of workers. In his 1946 book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1560006250\/amazingbooks0b0\">Concept of the Corporation<\/a>, he made an eloquent case against mindless bureaucracy, arguing that managers should give workers the power to make decisions and take the initiative. A radical thought then, it&#8217;s become the common wisdom today, though few businesses actually live up to Drucker&#8217;s ideal.<\/p>\n<p>There are good obituaries in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/11\/12\/business\/12drucker.html?hp&#038;ex=1131771600&#038;en=e8e1d4027d5ecb43&#038;ei=5094&#038;partner=homepage\">New York Times<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/cms\/s\/e697f840-5300-11da-8d05-0000779e2340.html\">Financial Times<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/financialnews\/D8DQJPUO0.htm?campaign_id=apn_tech_down&#038;chan=tc\">Business Week<\/a>, and Drucker&#8217;s grandson, Nova Spivack, has written <a href=\"http:\/\/novaspivack.typepad.com\/nova_spivacks_weblog\/2005\/11\/my_grandfather_.html\">a tribute on his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had almost come to believe that Peter Drucker was immortal, but sadly it&#8217;s not so. He died earlier today, at 95. Drucker was one of the great writers on business and management, who over the course of 70 years tirelessly championed the dignity and the intelligence of workers. In his 1946 book Concept of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}