A feature that he shares with thinkers like Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, the authors of the Federalist Papers and Friedrich Hayek among others. Panelist Timo Meynhardt said that Drucker’s depth of thought and his emphasis on values – his practical wisdom – was his distinctive strength, making him a ‘companion in the darkness’.ĭrucker had what Sowell calls a “constrained” vision. It was this interest that allowed him to see management as a social function, an organ of society that is responsible for the performance of institutions and gives the individual both status and function. Drucker was concerned with this balance at several levels, especially those of society and community. The political philosopher he admired most was Wilhelm von Humboldt, the pioneer of the modern research university, who found balance and harmony while managing the tension between continuity and change. While accepting the necessity of governance and government he saw power and the yearning for power as the central problem of society with that of managerial power and its legitimacy a particular concern. A social vision gives us a sense of how the world works, of the nature of humankind, of causation and how social change happens.Īs panelist Peter Paschek pointed out, Drucker described himself as a ‘conservative Christian anarchist’. Think of it as a walking stick that helps you travel over rugged terrain, giving you support when you need it and allowing you to probe the way ahead. American philosopher, Thomas Sowell, describes a vision as a ‘pre-analytic, cognitive act’ that helps simplify an overwhelmingly complex reality.
Here it is edited for clarity and length:ĭrucker always argued that one’s worldview mattered to one’s understanding of one’s role and contribution in society and one’s ability to manage oneself and others. While writing up a report on the 2021 Global Drucker Forum that recently took place both in Vienna and online, I came across my report on a roundtable session held at the 2019 Forum.
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