Crystal balls are an extremely scarce commodity.
But sometimes creative understanding and interpretation of the present and the past can offer insightful suggestions about possible developments in the future. Peter Drucker has established an international reputation as both a perceptive analyst of the present and an astute seer of the future. Whether in management and decision-making theory, economic policy, or political events, he often sees avenues and trends that others have missed. In his first book, The End of Economic Man, published in early 1939, he demonstrated why an alliance between Hitler and Stalin to carve up Europe was extremely likely, at a time when almost every one viewed Nazism and Communism as irreconcilable enemies. Professor Drucker's new book, The New Realities, offers some glimpses of what the next decade and the 21st century may hold in store.