In his book Peter Drucker states the following:
"The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the "manual worker" in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of "knowledge work" and the "knowledge worker." The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or non-business, will be its knowledge workers and their productivity."
It is imperative that our corporate and educational institutions create pupils equipped with the skills that are necessary to "learn how to learn," if not our society will fall prey to the rote memorization and repetition of tasks. The ability to learn is not dependent upon the regurgitation of facts and follow the leader but upon diverse thinking processes that lead to new and innovative ways of accomplishing a task.
"The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the "manual worker" in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of "knowledge work" and the "knowledge worker." The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or non-business, will be its knowledge workers and their productivity."
It is imperative that our corporate and educational institutions create pupils equipped with the skills that are necessary to "learn how to learn," if not our society will fall prey to the rote memorization and repetition of tasks. The ability to learn is not dependent upon the regurgitation of facts and follow the leader but upon diverse thinking processes that lead to new and innovative ways of accomplishing a task.
