Drucker’s Means and Value
The root cause of Drucker’s failure to discern the connection between Japanese content and context, and their relativity to the Nazi phenomenon, is not perceptual. Obviously, as is demonstrable in his commentary, Peter Drucker was a capable seer. In fact, he was and is broadly celebrated as a visionary.
Drucker was also a marvelous conceptualist. He was very proud of his invention of terms like Knowledge Worker and applications like Management (if pride is indicated by one’s reminding others that one is the inventor of such terms and applications).
The root cause of Peter Drucker’s failure to assemble the components into a topology, a composition, is his selective use of dimensional analysis in service to a rigid Epistemology. It is a failure to follow through. Drucker insisted on reaching conclusions where there were none.
Peter Drucker’s individual topology is characterized by a vertical emphasis. For Drucker, the construct was fundamentally Christian, European, if not Austrian, and conservative. To suggest that he never could divorce his roots incorrectly infers a psychological profile of Drucker. My suggestion is that his topological profile provides clues as to why or how Drucker might fail to connect the dots. In the end it is not a question of why or how, it is a question of values and meaning, or to put it another way, the means and value.
