Drucker: “A knowledge society is not a society of bosses and subordinate persons.”
I tweeted on Twitter.
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I wonder if you realize that the Druckerbot’s “knowledge society is not a society of bosses and subordinates,” which is full of RTs, is a state in which there is no one left in the organization to surpass you as a result of constant learning and acquisition of advanced expertise (and those who cannot do so have already been restructured).
So, quoting from postcapitalist society, with some of the finer phrasing redacted: “The world is a big place, and the world is a big place.
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Modern organizations are organizations by specialists of knowledge. Hence organization by equals. No knowledge is above other knowledge — p.76
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You must acquire new knowledge in any field every four to five years, or you will become obsolete — p. 78 Otherwise, you will become obsolete — p.78
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knowledge workers cannot be supervised. Rather, they are in every sense useless if there is anyone who knows more about their specialty than they do — p. 87.
What is meant by “Organization by equals” and “no one knows more about one’s specialty than oneself” is as shown in the figure [Learn from those with little knowledge.
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- [[There is more than one mountain.]]
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