The fear of failure has already permeated the knowledge society
The upward mobility of the knowledge society comes at a high price: the psychological pressures and emotional traumas of the rat race. There can be winners only if there are losers. This was not true of earlier societies.
Japanese youngsters suffer sleep deprivation because they spend their evenings at a crammer to help them pass their exams. Otherwise they will not get into the prestige university of their choice, and thus not into a good job. Other countries, such as America, Britain and France, are allowing their schools to become viciously competitive. That this has happened over such a short space of time - no more than thirty or forty years - indicates how much the fear of failure has permeated our knowledge society. Given this competitive struggle, a growing number of highly successful knowledge workers - business managers, university teachers, museum directors, doctors - "plateau" in their forties. if they work is all they have, they are in trouble. Knowledge workers therefore need to develop some serious outside interest.
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| The Current VCMB Board, were given six month to reorganize and restructure VCMB into the lead agricultural policy unit for the "prescribed commodities" of coconut, cocoa and kava. Today, the Hon PM hopes to address parliament on the VCMB Niufala Vision to create a "Agri-business Enabling Environment in order to eradicate agricultural poverty by 2016." Three years of work ahead...what will their ACTION POINT be? From Left to Right Acting GM Basil Hopkins, Chairman and 1'st Pa to the Hon PM Ian Wilson (sitting), DG Trade Marokon Alilee, Admin Coordinator Nanes Sylath and Board Secretary Jonah Kalorick |
ACTION POINT: Develop a serious satisfying outside interest.
Managing in the Next Society
Quoted From The Daily Drucker, page 142
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