The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights--and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans--signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world. -- Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995)

That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations -- not just business, but government service, the…

This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new 'class conflict' between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of wor…

...what's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There is no excuse for it. No justification. This i…

History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb i…

Mass education was designed to turn independent farmers into docile, passive tools of production. That was its primary purpose. And don't think people didn't k…