Peter Drucker

Large business organisations in the information age may well look less like traditional manufacturing companies and more like hospitals, universities, and symphony orchestras.  In a large symphony orchestra, he pointed out, there is but a single conductor-CEO.  Every one of the musicians, each a high-grade specialist, plays directly to that person without any middle-management intermediaries to make sure things go right.  It is the job of the conductor, and increasingly will become the job of the CEO, to directly and insistently focus each player’s skill and knowledge on the ensemble’s joint performance...