The end of the line

Mark Addleson

Chapter Chapter 1 in Beyond Management, 2011, pp 1-7 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Management is dead, but don’t take my word for it. Peter Drucker saw this first. He begins The Practice of Management, the book that made him famous, with a bold prediction: “management will remain a basic and dominant institution perhaps as long as Western civilization itself survives”.1 What a surprise, then, to find him administering the last rites to management a little more than 40 years later: “as we advance deeper into the knowledge economy, the basic assumptions underlying much of what is taught and practiced in the name of management are hopelessly out of date… As a result, we are preaching, teaching, and practicing policies that are increasingly at odds with reality and therefore counterproductive.”2

Keywords: Knowledge Worker; Sales Team; Dominant Institution; Management Revolution; Intellectual Journey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230343412_1

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