I’ve always loved the contrast between Moore’s Law – Gordon Moore’s pronouncement that silicon chips’ power would double every 18 months – and Peter Drucker’s much more sober statement about the art of managing people: “We are not going to breed a new race of supermen. We will have to run our organizations with people as they are.” Together they capture the difference between technological progress, which in certain periods occurs exponentially, and the “progress” we make in changing human nature — which is to say, no progress at all.
Technology Changes, Good Management Doesn’t
People don’t follow Moore’s Law.
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