Even in the flattest landscape there are passes where the road
first climbs to a peak and then descends into a new valley. Most of
these passes are simply topography with little or no difference in
climate, language, or culture between the valleys on either side.
But some passes are different: they are true divides. History too
knows such divides. Once these divides have been crossed, the
social and political landscape changes; the social and political
climate is different, and so is the social and political language.
Some time between 1965 and 1973 we passed over such a divide and
entered "the next century." Challenging, insightful, and
provocative, Peter Drucker's The New Realities anticipates the
central issues of a rapidly changing world. When it was initially
published, in 1989, some reviewers mistakenly thought The New
Realities was a book about the future, or in other words, a series
of predictions. But, as indicated in the title, the book discusses
realities. Drucker argues that events of the next thirty to forty
years, or even further on, had already largely been defined by
events of the previous half-century. Thus, Drucker discusses
episodes in world history that had not yet happened at the time of
the book's initial publication, such as: the archaism of the hope
for "salvation by society" in "The End of FDR's America"; the
democratization of the Soviet Union in "When the Russian Empire is
Gone"; the technology boom of the 1990s in "The Information-Based
Organization"; and the evolution of management in "Management as
Social Function and Liberal Art." Graced with a new preface by the
author that discusses both reactions to the original publication of
the book and how important it is for decision-makers to consider
the past and present when planning for the future, The New
Realities is mandatory reading for understanding politics,
government, the economy, information technology, and business in an
ever-changing world.
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