This is a video recording of a continuation of a question and answer session with Peter Drucker and John Bachmann for the Edward Jones firm. Drucker discusses new growth industries, such as fish farming and synthetic materials. He goes on to address the expansion of Edward Jones to 25,000 offices, stressing the need to maintain balance between the firm being a local and global business. Drucker concludes with an anecdote about AT & T’s growth rate of 16 percent per year in 1908. When the company president converted that rate into personnel needs, he estimated that by 1928 an unrealistically high number of telephone operators would be needed.
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005 Bachmann, John W Edward D. Jones & Co Salmon Synthetic products Offices AT & T Training Telephone Telephone companies Bankruptcy Business Management
Place
Claremont (Calif.)
Source
Original DVD disc: Drucker Archives; Box 101B, Video Recordings; John Bachmann speaks to Peter Drucker (part 2), November 07, 2001
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