07年3月18日高级口译英翻中真题
Well before his death,Drucker had already become a legend Over his 95 prolific years,he has been a true Renaissance man,a teacher of religion philosophy,political science.But his more important contribution,clearly,was in business.What John Maynard Keynes is to economical Drucker is to management.
In the 1980s,he began to have grave doubts about business and eyencapitalism itself.He longer saw the corporation as an ideal space to create community.In fact,he saw nearly the opposite: a place where self-interest had triumphed over the egalitarian principles has longchampioned.In both his writings and speeches,Drucker emerged as one of Corporation America's most inportant critics.When conglomerates were the rage,he preached against reckle mergers and acquisitions.When executives were engaged in empire-building.he argued again excess staff and the inefficiencies of numerous "assistants to ."In a 1984 essay he persuasive argued that CEO pay had rocketed out of control and implored boards to hold CEO compensatical to no more than 20 times what the rank and file made.What paticularly enraged him was the tendency of corporate managers to reap massive earnings while fiming thousands of their workers "This is morally and socially unforgivable,"wrote Drucker,"and we will pay a heavy price for it.