Changes in the processes and statistics areas will require understanding new enabling technologies, which will be driven by new ways of thinking about control. Changes in the area of control will be the most difficult because they involve fundamentally new philosophies. The concept of centrally planned economies has been relegated to the dustbin of history. Unquestionably, free people are immensely more productive, happier and healthier than their counterparts living in planned economies. In the political realm, control is dead, a few straggler nations notwithstanding.
Modern organizations remain islands of central planning afloat in a sea of political freedom.
This won't last. I predict that this freedom finally will make its way into business organizations when people begin questioning why some companies are more productive than others. The questioners will find that these organizations' leaders are hostile to the very idea of management. People are free in their minds, and you can't manage a free mind. Such thinking explains why Nucor's stock price appreciated 12,439 percent since current management took over in 1973.