Drucker's most important contributions

Asked near the end of his life what he considered his most important contributions, Drucker replied:

That I early on—almost sixty years ago—realized that management has become the constitutive organ and function of the Society of Organizations;

That management is not “Business Management”…but the governing organ of all institutions of Modern Society;

That I established the study of management as a discipline in its own right; and

That I focused this discipline

on People and Power;
on Values, Structure and Constitution; and above all
on responsibilities—that is,focused the Discipline of Management
on Management as a truly liberal art.

In 2006 the Drucker Archives became the Drucker Institute, with a mission to carry forward Drucker’s life work: stimulating effective management and ethical leadership across all sectors of society.