The View From the Top

Thirty years later, after my own life experiences have led me in so many new and unexpected directions – and eventually, to a point far distant from the “business” career I was then beginning – I find myself to be curious once again about the world of management and its underlying beliefs. It now seems to me that there has been an enormous growth during this period – spanning many knowledge domains – in our general understanding of the human and physical environment in which we live and move and have our being. I will not attempt here a detailed history of Western intellectual thought and development over these years, nor try to document all of its formative influences. But there are some broad movements I would like to observe.