Peter Ferdinand Drucker an Austrian-remade American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation 1,
Drucker's credo, "Know Thy Time" are of little use to Generation Y aka "Millenials", that existed three (3) American generations above his; the Silent Generation that had fought in Korea and Vietnam, the Baby Boomers and the Generation X.
Drucker came from the so-called American's "The Greatest Generation" or the G.I. Generation that fought in World World 2, undoubtedly much of the larger contributions went to computer age, mechanization of air-crafts and ships which later on lead to the space exploration age.
He was not around to see or to predict what I would call, "The Beginning of the Religious Man", where migrants around the world would have much the impact on managing industrial-wide of workers.
Drucker rightly recommended,
"A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths."
Sweat and soul, were the old Spartan way of life, The Greatest Generation time but not this time where Generation Y flexes their backbone with a yawn; where one need not figure how to change a plug-socket head when you can buy and replace a plug for 99 sen, to figure out how hand-phone works when they came in all shapes, sizes at an affordable price and how the Internet works, it just does!
DOTA, Cybercafe games are the in-thing, Alibaba is a stock giant, not 1,001 Arabian Nights and whether it makes profit or not, is not really the question, its popular (and seemed to be the only one viable to trade in this dour time)! Times have really changed and so are the mindset of the "labour market" where the Generations before trying so hard to protect only for labour to go on individualistic rampage.
But at the end, the World and the Individuals must recognise what Drucker had written and talked widely on:
Managing By Results.
All talks, no action, makes Jack and Jill - are over-excess necessity that any organisations should cut down on and getting the goal realized.
But at the end, the World and the Individuals must recognise what Drucker had written and talked widely on:
Managing By Results.
All talks, no action, makes Jack and Jill - are over-excess necessity that any organisations should cut down on and getting the goal realized.
