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David's Time With Peter F. Drucker 2020.7.13 冠鼎学院（GA）——识别·培养·考验未来的领导者 It is generally believed that the leading “high-tech” companies——IBM in the sixties an seventies, Microsoft since 1980——have been the fastest-growing businesses in post-World War Ⅱ period. But the world's two leading print companies have grown at least as fast. One is the German-based Bertelsmann Group. A small publisher of Protestant prayer books before Hitler, Bertelsmann was suppressed by the Nazis. It was revived after World War Ⅱ by the founder's grandson, Reinhard Mohn. Still privately held, Bertelsmann publishes no sales of profit figures. But it is now the world's number one publisher and distributor of printed materials in most conutries of the world, through its ownership of publishing firms, of book clubs an of magazines. ——《Management Challenges for the 21st Century · Chapter4 Information Challenges》(Peter F.Drucker,1999)