We are now in a period of social transition, a period characterized, that is, by an unusually rapid rate of change of the most important economic, social, political, and cultural institutions of society. This transition is from the type of society which we have called capitalist or bourgeois to a to a type of society which we shall call managerial.

p. 71; cited in: Robert Manley (ed) (1962) Age of the manager. p. xiii - The Managerial Revolution, 1941

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