The phrase “Japan Inc” is tendentious. It starts the economic story in the middle, likens the country to a superconglomerate, and misrepresents the archipelago’s postwar success.

Often violent and uncontrollable, revolutions are not the solution. In most cases they topple existing authorities and usher in cruel and unsuitable systems, as history proves by the French and Russian Revolution.

In the “Employee Society,” as Drucker labeled it, people’s aspirations are molded by contracts. Contracts obligated the individuals to contribute to the organization's goal defined in terms of property interest.

Educational institutions now belong to the largest employers and investors in the world.

By cutting off access to Instagram, we are reminded that the internet is vulnerable to real-life geopolitical battles. The personal lives we create and the income we generate there can all be restricted overnight due to the absence of supranational internet access.

Prominently brought to the fore by the Oxford philosopher Isaiah Berlin, the movement denotes anti-intellectualist sordid strands of thought that eventually culminated in the nationalism and fascism of the 20th century

Freedom is an ethical principle of social choice.

After World War 2, European manufacturing and management practice was a generation behind the US. Under the Productivity Program of the Marshall Plan, several thousand European businessmen, union officials, and technicians were sent to America to study the causes of their productivity.

Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, disdained business management. Even though his family owned a grocery store, an engineering factory, and an oil company. His apathy for management is often used to oppose the creation of a Nobel Prize in the subject. But this narrative, which chides Management as boring and trifling, is unfounded and difficult to uphold.

In “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” Yuval Noah Harari compares businesspeople to powerful sorcerers and corporations to mythical figments of our collective imagination. He categorizes the limited liability company into the genre of legal fiction and opinionates that it is one of humanity’s most ingenious inventions.

The United States has the oldest continuous democracy in the world. It was introduced by a British company to the country. Back then, the revolutionary idea was an employer perk. Democracy was something like free onsite gym classes at Google.

One of the first knowledge professions was nursing. It was founded by the British social reformer and the first female fellow of the Royal Statistical Society Florence Nightingale. Modern nursing was conceived during and following the Crimean War from 1853 to 1856 when Nightingale led a team of nurses to care for wounded British soldiers in Scutari (Albania) and Istanbul.

Back in the year 2000, Disney Interactive was in the unprofitable educational PC software market. To make money, they licensed various valuable intellectual properties - such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy - to the video game holding company Square Enix, in Japan.

A new frontier on how Chief Learning Officers can collaborate with educational establishments is emerging. Big employers, such as the accounting firm PwC, are teaming up with universities to craft and customize their accounting and business degrees. The Wall Street Journal explains that this should help graduates get the necessary skills in the working world.