An Entrepreneurial Society Needs Open Learning
by Dan Pontefract
Over the course of his writing, rather cleverly, Peter Drucker found a way to coin our past, present and future into distinct societies. At its root, a “society” is a group of people sharing traditions and values, organized as a community. He first introduced the emergence of a “knowledge society” with the arrival of the knowledge worker. From there, Drucker insisted the “knowledge society” was beginning to evolve into an “employee society,” so long as management was able to focus on making the knowledge productive and useful. Drucker then envisioned a day where the created, collective wealth of knowledge would advance into an “entrepreneurial society.” He felt the “entrepreneurial society” would mark a turning point […]