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David's Time With Peter F. Drucker 2020.8.3 冠鼎学院（GA）——识别·培养·考验未来的领导者 Economists have known the importance of costing the entire economic chain since Alfred Marshall wrote about it in the late 1890s. But most business people still consider it theoretical abstraction. Increasingly, however, managing the economic cost chain will become a necessity. Indeed, exectutives need to organize and manage not only the cost chain but also everything else——especially corporate strategy and product planning——as one economic whole, regardless of the legal boundaries of individual companies. ——《Management Challenges for the 21st Century · Chapter4 Information Challenges》(Peter F.Drucker,1999)