PREFACE
Chances are that you are part of the most crucial group of people in modern society: knowledge workers. Rather than earning your living by the sweat of your brow, your work revolves around what you know and can learn, making you the owner of your means of production. This distinction was drawn by Peter Drucker, the prolific author who was often called the father of modern management, in the late 1950s. Your knowledge is portable and not dependent on any particular employer or industry, and you are not limited geographically in where you do your work.
Today, life as a knowledge worker is more challenging than ever. Drucker’s life and thought anticipated exactly the “flat world” described in Thomas L. Friedman’s book The World Is Flat
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