Ford Has Read This Book Before

Podcast: The Long Game for All: Counting What Frontlines Know · Venki Padmanabhan

Opublikowano: 2026-10-15

It takes some nerve for a GM man to recommend a book to Ford. In my defense, GM did not want it. In 1943, General Motors invited a young Viennese writer named Peter Drucker inside. He spent the better part of two years in its meetings and its plants. In 1946 he published what he saw there as Concept of the Corporation. The book admired GM. It also said two things GM did not care to hear. A corporation is a social institution, and it answers to more than its owners. And the worker is a resource...