介绍:
David's Time With Peter F. Drucker 2020.3.15
Management's Scope Is Politically Defined
It is still generally assumed in the discipline of management——and very largely still taken for granted in the practice of management——that the domestic economy, as defined by national boundaries, is the ecology of enterprise and management——and of nonbusinesses as much as of businesses.
In the traditional multinational, economic realy and political reality were congruent. The country was the “business unit,” to use today's term. In today's, transnational——but increasingly, also, in the old multinationals as they are being forced to trans-form themselves——the country is only a “cost center.” It is a complication rather than the unit for organization and the unit of business, of strategy, of production and so on.
Management and national boundaries are no longer congruent. The scope of management can no longer be politically defined. National boundaries will continue to be important.
But the new assumption has to be:
National boundaries are important primarily as restraints. The practice of management——and by no means for businesses only——will increasingly have to be difined operationally rather than politically.
——《Management Challenges for the 21st Century ·Chapter1》(Peter F.Drucker,1999)
