I studied with Peter Drucker in the late 90's and he pointed to two things that he said would irrevocably rock the employer-employee relationship, and have massive ripples across society at large: 1) executive/CEO compensation:average employee wage ratios and 2) layoffs. Where we are now is so far beyond what he predicted I often picture…
I studied with Peter Drucker in the late 90's and he pointed to two things that he said would irrevocably rock the employer-employee relationship, and have massive ripples across society at large: 1) executive/CEO compensation:average employee wage ratios and 2) layoffs. Where we are now is so far beyond what he predicted I often picture him rolling six feet under.
From The Drucker Institute:
"Drucker had seen firsthand what happens when society stops functioning, having witnessed the rise of the Nazis in the aftermath of the Great War and Depression. This was the central theme of the first of the 39 major books – The End of Economic Man – that he would publish throughout his extraordinarily long and productive career. “These catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable laws…They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the façade of society.”
Drucker was determined never to let things break down like that again and set out to help leaders build effective and responsible institutions, learning much from rising corporate leaders, which helped inform the writing of some of his most popular books – The Effective Executive, The Concept of the Corporation, The Practice of Management."
I studied with Peter Drucker in the late 90's and he pointed to two things that he said would irrevocably rock the employer-employee relationship, and have massive ripples across society at large: 1) executive/CEO compensation:average employee wage ratios and 2) layoffs. Where we are now is so far beyond what he predicted I often picture him rolling six feet under.
From The Drucker Institute:
"Drucker had seen firsthand what happens when society stops functioning, having witnessed the rise of the Nazis in the aftermath of the Great War and Depression. This was the central theme of the first of the 39 major books – The End of Economic Man – that he would publish throughout his extraordinarily long and productive career. “These catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable laws…They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the façade of society.”
Drucker was determined never to let things break down like that again and set out to help leaders build effective and responsible institutions, learning much from rising corporate leaders, which helped inform the writing of some of his most popular books – The Effective Executive, The Concept of the Corporation, The Practice of Management."