Comments on: Staying Alive by Simon Caulkin

By: Lesley Crane

Lesley Crane — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:49:37 +0000

Lovely piece. But I think time will show that Peter Drucker may have also been wrong about the ‘educated person’. If anything, the educated person is becoming an anachronism. What I can’t understand is this: if, as Simon suggests, start ups, entrepreneurs and business strategists with a keen eye on profit (and therefore satisfied shareholders – who cares about anyone else?), are pelting us down the road of human erosion in favour of technology in the workplace, no one will have a job, so who’s going to buy all of their (machine made) products? Machines?

By: Raymond Hofmann

Raymond Hofmann — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 21:11:46 +0000

Very nice perspective on the ongoing “dehumanisation” in business.

Made me think of Drucker’s view of management as a liberal art and this quote from 1973: “Management will increasingly be the discipline and the practice through and in which the ‘humanities’ will again acquire recognition, impact, and relevance.”

Sadly, it seems, Drucker was wrong on this one. At least up to now, that is. We can still choose to prove him right.

How might we turn his vision into reality? I look forward to exchanging ideas in Vienna!