Peter F. Drucker Boxed Set (8 Books) (The Drucker Library)

CHAPTER ONE

Why Managers?

MANAGERS ARE THE BASIC resource of the business enterprise. In a fully automated factory—such as already exists in a few places, modern oil refineries for instance—there may be a few highly skilled technicians and professionals, but almost no other workers at all. But there will be managers! In fact, there will be many more managers than there used to be in yesterday’s factory filled with semi-skilled machine operators. Where the foreman on the assembly line supervises fifty people, managers in automated plants rarely have more than two or three people on their team—and each of them has greater autonomy, more responsibility ...