Post-capitalist society
by Peter F. Drucker · first published 1993
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Business guru Peter Drucker provides an incisive analysis of the major world transformation taking place, from the Age of Capitalism to the Knowledge Society, and examines the radical effects it will have on society, politics, and business now and in the coming years. This searching and incisive analysis of the major world transformation now taking place shows how it will affect society, economics, business, and politics and explains how we are moving from a society based on capital, land, and labor to a society whose primary source is knowIedge and whose key structure is the organization.
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I read a lot of books this year but these are my favorites: The Post Capitalist Society - Peter F. Druckert The War of Art - Pressfield, Steven Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology (Bradford Books) - Braitenberg, Valentino The Art of Doing Science and Engineering - Hamming, Richard…
on “Ask HN: Best books you read in 2012” ↗…means of production" in the 1950s and 1960s. Management (of people, tasks, responsibilities, and disciplines) and knowledge work were the two sides to organizational performance. Drucker felt that "post capitalist society" was the recognition that capital ceased being the primary factor of production. No matter how much capital you throw at a problem, if you can't retain people that know what you're doing, you won't get…
on “The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Where Do We Go from Here?” ↗