Post-Capitalist Society

"By the year 2000 there will be no developed country where traditional workers making and moving goods account for more than one sixth or one eighth of the work force."

"Knowledge is now being applied to knowledge."

"Traditional knowledge was general. What we now consider knowledge is of necessity highly specialized."

"The function of organizations is to make knowledges productive."

"Every organization of today has to build into its very structure the management of change."

"We must resolve these two items of unfinished business: the future role and function of labor, and the future role and function of money capital."

"The Japanese argue that to encourage blue-collar manual work in making and moving things weakens a developed economy."

"Pension fund capitalism is fundamentally as different from any earlier form of capitalism as it is from anything any socialist ever envisaged as a socialist economy."

"Unless we can learn how to increase the productivity of knowledge workers and service workers, and increase it fast, the developed countries will face economic stagnation and severe social tension."

"The word rank should disappear from the vocabulary of knowledge work and knowledge worker."

"Responsibility must be the principle which informs and organizes the post-capitalist society."

"The knowledge-based organization requires that everyone take responsibility for that organization's objectives, contribution, and, indeed, for its behavior as well."

"The fiscal state has spent itself into impotence."

"The next decades will make unprecedented demands on political courage, political imagination, political innovation, political leadership."

"The industries that have moved into the center of the economy in the last forty years have as their business the production and distribution of knowledge and information, rather than production and distribution of things."

"We do not use knowledges as part of one toolbox."

"The educated person will have to be prepared to live and work simultaneously in two cultures: that of the intellectual, who focuses on words and ideas, and that of the manager, who focuses on people and work."