Over the years, Silicon Valley’s tech elite – Andy Grove of Intel, Eric Schmidt of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook – have paid close attention to the writings of Peter Drucker.
And why not? Besides being celebrated by BusinessWeek as “ the man who invented management ,” Drucker coined the term “knowledge worker” more than half a century ago, anticipating the prosperity and ascendance of those who would make a living with the stuff between their ears, and not with their calloused hands.
“Today the assembly line is obsolescent,” Drucker observed with remarkable foresight in “ Landmarks of Tomorrow ,” his […]
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