Peter Drucker’s Legacy: It’s All About the People is the title the Wall Street Journal gave to the obituary of the most influential business guru on the past century.

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He was the person who created the phrase knowledge worker and the core of Mr. Drucker’s advice according to people who dealt with him was: “Successful enterprises create the conditions to allow their employees to do their best work.”

The Washington Post noted: Central to his philosophy was the belief that highly skilled people are an organization’s most valuable resource

But aside from the lessons you can find in his books, the most important legacy he will leave is to look at the example Mr. Drucker gave to us through his life. He wrote 39 books and worked for over 60 years.

This is maybe a key lesson to understand today as we foresee the 77 million baby boomers starting to retire next year. As Yale professor Jeffrey Garten says clearly in BusinessWeek: Keep Boomers on the Job.

So maybe the inspiration of Peter Druckers long and fruitful career is part of the solution to the closing remark of the BusinessWeek article: In just a few years, the aging workforce will become a central societal problem.