2020.9.27

David's time with Peter F.Drucker 2020.9.27 冠鼎学院（Guanding Academy）——识别·培养·考验未来领导者的学院。 The Productivity of the Manual Worker FIRST: a look where we are. It was only a little over a hundred years ago that for the first time an educated person actually looked at manual work and manual worker, and then began to study both. Great poets, the Greek Hesiod and, five hundred years later, the Roman Virgil, sang about the work of the farmer. Theirs are still among the finest poems in any language. But neither the work they sang about nor their farmers bear even the most remote resemblance to reality or were meant to have any. Neither Hesiod nor Virgil ever held a sickle in his hands, ever herded sheep or even looked at the people who did, either. And when, nineteen hundred years after Virgil, Karl Marx came to write about manual work and manual workers. The first man to do both, that is, to work as a manual worker and then to study manual work, was Frederick Winslow Taylor.——《Management Challenges for the 21st Century》Chapter 5.