Toward an Age of Humility

Yair Aharoni

doi:10.2307/41164955

Toward an Age of Humility

Yair Aharoni

Coller School of Management

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The growth of the public sector and the scope of its intervention in all industrial societies is the result of rising expectations and diminishing risk acceptance. Today, governments are being asked to achieve the impossible and prevent the inevitable. The result is frustration, disillusion. The author calls for a new attitude toward reality.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	49-59
Number of pages	11
Journal	California Management Review
Volume	24
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/41164955
State	Published - 1981

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