Peter Drucker
Business / management guru.
Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19, 1909–November 11, 2005) was a writer, management consultant and university professor. Drucker's writing focused on management-related literature. Peter Drucker made famous the term knowledge worker and is thought to have unknowingly ushered in the knowledge economy . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker
Heavily influenced by the writings of Kierkegaard:
And it is this real Kierkegaard who is meaningful for the modern world in its agony. We have neither Saint nor Poet to make whole the shards of our experinence; in Kierkegaard we have at least a prophet.
http://www.peterdrucker.at/en/texts/...kierkeg_en.pdf
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a prolific 19th century Danish philosopher and theologian. Kierkegaard strongly criticized both the Hegelianism of his time, and what he saw as the empty formalities of the Danish church. Much of his work deals with religious problems such as faith in God, the institution of the Christian Church, Christian ethics and theology, and the emotions and feelings of individuals when faced with life choices. His early work was written under various pseudonyms who present their own distinctive viewpoints in a complex dialogue. Kierkegaard left the task of discovering the meaning of the works to the reader, because "the task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted". Subsequently, many have interpreted Kierkegaard as an existentialist, neo-orthodoxist, postmodernist, humanist, individualist, etc. Crossing the boundaries of philosophy, theology, psychology, and literature, Kierkegaard came to be regarded as a highly significant and influential figure in contemporary thought.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_KierkegaardKierkegaard primarily discusses subjectivity with regard to religious matters, however. As already noted, he argues that doubt is an element of faith and that it is impossible to gain any objective certainty about religious doctrines such as the existence of God or the life of Christ. The most one could hope for would be the conclusion that it is probable that the Christian doctrines are true, but if a person were to believe such doctrines only to the degree they seemed likely to be true, he or she would not be genuinely religious at all. Faith consists in a subjective relation of absolute commitment to these doctrines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard
Drucker was also influenced by the writings of panentheist/mystic Martin Buber:
"Mankind needs the return to spiritual values, for it needs compassion. It needs the deep experience that the Thou and the I [from Buber's book, I and Thou] are one, which all higher religions share."
from Landmarks of Tomorrow
Peter DruckerMartin Buber (8 February 1878 – 13 June 1965) was an Austrian-Israeli-Jewish philosopher, translator, and educator, whose work centered on theistic ideals of religious consciousness, interpersonal relations, and community. Buber's evocative, sometimes poetic writing style has marked the major themes in his work: the retelling of Hasidic tales, Biblical commentary, and metaphysical dialogue. A cultural Zionist, Buber was active in the Jewish and educational communities of Germany and Israel. He was also a staunch supporter of a binational solution in Palestine, instead of a two-state solution, and after the establishment of the Jewish state of Israel, of a regional federation of Israel and Arab states. His influence extends across the humanities, particularly in the fields of social psychology, social philosophy, and religious existentialism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Buber
Drucker established the Leader to Leader Institute in 1990.
Established in 1990 as the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, the Leader to Leader Institute furthers its mission—to strengthen the leadership of the social sector—by providing social sector leaders with essential leadership wisdom, inspiration and resources to lead for innovation and to build vibrant social sector organizations.
http://www.leadertoleader.org/about/index.htmlLeader to Leader Institute, with our partner Jossey-Bass/Wiley is committed to bringing leadership resources from all sectors to nonprofit readers. Our books and videos bring together practical insights on the challenge of leading in an age when the old rules and conventional boundaries no longer exist. Our award-winning quarterly journal, Leader to Leader, offers cutting-edge thinking on leadership, management, and strategy written by today's top thought leaders.
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