{"product_id":"new-realities-1","title":"New Realities","description":"\u003cp\u003eEven in the flattest landscape there are passes where the road first climbs to a peak and then descends into a new valley. Most of these passes are simply topography with little or no difference in climate, language, or culture between the valleys on either side. But some passes are different: they are true divides. History too knows such divides. Once these divides have been crossed, the social and political landscape changes; the social and political climate is different, and so is the social and political language. Some time between 1965 and 1973 we passed over such a divide and entered \"the next century.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChallenging, insightful, and provocative, Peter Drucker's \u003cem\u003eThe New Realities\u003c\/em\u003e anticipates the central issues of a rapidly changing world. When it was initially published, in 1989, some reviewers mistakenly thought \u003cem\u003eThe New Realities\u003c\/em\u003e was a book about the future, or in other words, a series of predictions. But, as indicated in the title, the book discusses \u003cem\u003erealities\u003c\/em\u003e. Drucker argues that events of the next thirty to forty years, or even further on, had already largely been defined by events of the previous half-century. Thus, Drucker discusses episodes in world history that had not yet happened at the time of the book's initial publication, such as: the archaism of the hope for \"salvation by society\" in \"The End of FDR's America\"; the democratization of the Soviet Union in \"When the Russian Empire is Gone\"; the technology boom of the 1990s in \"The Information-Based Organization\"; and the evolution of management in \"Management as Social Function and Liberal Art.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGraced with a new preface by the author that discusses both reactions to the original publication of the book and how important it is for decision-makers to consider the past and present when planning for the future, \u003cem\u003eThe New Realities\u003c\/em\u003e is mandatory reading for understanding politics, government, the economy, information technology, and business in an ever-changing world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54237401153880,"sku":"9781138537095","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138537095_7f7ddbb7-fb5f-4b73-a6bb-bbd7fff762de.jpg?v=1779337850","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/new-realities-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}