THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Management

"Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers."

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky


TOPIC OF THE DAY

21st Century Management

Management has been around since the dawn of civilization. In primitive societies almost everyone had to do physical labor. To escape this burden, about the only choices were going into politics (kings) or religion (priests).

Civilized urban societies led to more specialization, created new vocational alternatives to manual labor, and saw a tendency of those who did not work with their hands to look down on those who did. This particular attitude was fostered by scribes, who used their knowledge of writing to produce literature that mocked the illiterate laboring classes.


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