Critique on Peter Drucker's The New Realities

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Critique on Peter Drucker's The New Realities

In the past 150 years, America and the world has experienced a paradigm shift in the study of Public Administration, political realities, the government political processes, economy-ecology and the drastic transformation of our knowledge society. The New Realities book is Dr Drucker field guide to the large-scale paradoxes of our time. Dr Drucker hypothesis are a penetrating examination of the central issues, trends, and developments of the coming decades and the problems and opportunities they present to America and the world. He analyzes the new limits and functions of government, the transnational economy and ecology, the paradoxes of development, the post business society, information-based organizations, management as a social function, and the shifting base of knowledge. Most importantly, Dr Drucker analysis does not focus on what to do tomorrow. He focuses on what to do today in contemplation of tomorrows.

Dr Drucker is an omnivorous writer with a passionate interest in all fields of politics, business management, economics and political realities. He pushes to extremes some familiar ideas about the end of ideology, the burden of arms and the limits of government. He puzzles us by insisting that no one believes anymore in \\\"salvation by society” (Drucker 1989, p 9) while finding great promise in a pluralism of single-purpose organizations.

In the Divide, Drucker identifies two important periods that have drastically changed our dominant political creed. He mentions that the century has begun in 1776 with the ‘Wealth of Nations’ by Adam Smith and that ten years after 1873, the great liberal parties that had marched under the banners of ‘progress’ and ‘enlightenment’ all over the west were in retreat and disarray ( Drucker 1989, p 4). He said that the European Continent immediately split into Marxist socialist and anti-Semitic socialist that both were equally anti-capitalist, and hostile to free markets and ‘bourgeois democracy’ (Drucker 1989, p 5). Drucker says that this paradigm- shift changed our political perspective in the 19 century by letting “Marxist socialist become the single largest party in every major continental European country, in France and Italy, in Germany, Austria, and even though officially suppressed in tsarist Russia”( Drucker 1989, p 6).

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...al processes that do not center on the traditional school; But at the same time, the performance of the schools and the basic values of the schools will be of increasing concern to society as a whole, rather than being considered professional matters that can safely be left to educators. In our society where the minority of knowledge workers are starting to dominate society, there is a potential for social conflict. The productivity of the non-knowledge, services worker will become the social challenge of the knowledge society. On this, it will depend on the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, jobs, and with them dignity and status, to non-knowledge workers. The reason I end with the ‘knowledge’ concept is because Drucker analysis and his vision is paving us the way for us, the future scholars, to think in policies that addresses the less fortune.

Finally, it’s in our hands and the hands of our decision makers in power to realize the realities that Drucker has presented. With its self imposed limitations, Drucker has already set us the agenda.

Bibliography

Drucker (1989) The New Realities. New Brunswick, U.S.A.: Transaction Publishers, ©2003

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