Peter F. Drucker on Practical Leadership

INTERVIEW: NOTES ON THE POST-BUSINESS SOCIETY

Q: You have written that there is a profound sense of unreality about both politics and economics today. What do you mean?

A: Most of what we assume axiomatically no longer fits our reality, lending a surreal air to our work and lives. The world seems to have dissolved into a series of media events that appear either bigger than reality or totally formless. This is especially true in political life, where we have entered terra incognita.

The reason for the present confusion is that, at some point between 1965 and 1973, we passed a “great divide” into the next century, leaving behind the creeds, commitments and alignments that had shaped politics for a century or two. At the most profound level, the ...