Peter Drucker

===Early influences===
Among Drucker's early influences was the Austrian economist [[Joseph Schumpeter]], a friend of his father's, who impressed upon Drucker the idea of the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship.<ref>Beatty, Jack. ''The World According to Peter Drucker'', 1998, p. 163.</ref> Drucker was also influenced, in a much different way, by [[John Maynard Keynes]], whom he heard lecture in 1934 in [[Cambridge]].<ref>Drucker, Peter F. ''The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the Human Condition'', 1993, p. 75.</ref> "I suddenly realized that Keynes and all the brilliant economic students in the room were interested in the behavior of commodities", Drucker wrote, "while I was interested in the behavior of people".<ref>Drucker, Peter F., ''The Ecological Vision'', 1993, pp. 75–76.</ref>

Over the next 70 years, Drucker's writings would be marked by a focus on relationships among human beings, as opposed to the crunching of numbers. His books were filled with lessons on how organizations can bring out the best in people, and how workers can find a sense of community and dignity in a modern society organized around large institutions.<ref name="druckerinstitute.com"/> As a business consultant, Drucker disliked the term "guru", though it was often applied to him; "I have been saying for many years", Drucker once remarked, "that we are using the word 'guru' only because '[[charlatan]]' is too long to fit into a headline."<ref>"Peter Drucker, the man who changed the world", ''Business Review Weekly'', September 15, 1997, p. 49.</ref>

As a young writer, Drucker wrote two pieces&nbsp;– one on the conservative German philosopher [[Friedrich Julius Stahl]] and another called "''[http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/dac&CISOPTR=3415&CISOBOX=1&REC=1 The Jewish Question in Germany]''"&nbsp;– that were burned and banned by the [[Nazi Party|Nazis]].<ref name="bw2005"/>  In 1939 he published a contemporary analysis of the rise of fascism called "The End of Economic Man".  This was his first book, published in New York, in English.  In the introduction he refers to "[[Jewish Question|The Jewish Question in Germany]]" saying "An early excerpt [of this book] was published as a pamphlet by an Austrian Catholic and Anti-Nazi in ... 1936".<ref>"The End of Economic Man, Introduction to the Transaction Edition" Transaction Publishing, 2009. Drucker was among the 2,300 names of prominent persons listed on the [[Nazi]]s' [[The Black Book (list)|Special Search List]], of those who were to be arrested on the invasion of Great Britain and turned over to the [[Gestapo]].</ref>