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Why does Peter Drucker continue to enjoy such a high reputation? Part of the answer lies in people’s mixed emotions about manage

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问题     Why does Peter Drucker continue to enjoy such a high reputation? Part of the answer lies in people’s mixed emotions about management. The management-advice business is one of the most successful industries of the past century. When Drucker first turned his mind to the subject in the 1940s it was a backwater. Business schools were treated as poor relations by other professional schools. McKinsey had been in the management-consulting business for only a decade and the Boston Consulting Group did not yet exist. Officials at General Motors doubted if Drucker could find a publisher for his great study of the company, "Concept of the Corporation".
    Today the backwater has turned into Niagara Falls. The world’s great business schools have replaced Oxbridge as the nurseries of the global elite. The management-consulting industry will earn revenues of $300 billion this year. Management books regularly top the bestseller lists. Management masters can command $60,000 a speech.
    Yet the practitioners of this great industry continue to suffer from a severe case of status anxiety. This is partly because the management business has always been prey to fads and frauds. But it is also because the respectable end of the business seems to lack what Yorkshire folk call "bottom". Consultants and business-school professors are forever discovering great ideas, like re-engineering, that turn to dust, and wonderful companies, like Enron, that burst into flames.
    Peter Drucker is the perfect antidote to such anxiety. He was a genuine intellectual who, during his early years, rubbed shoulders with the likes of Ludwig Wittgenstein, John Maynard Keynes and Joseph Schumpeter. He illustrated his arguments with examples from medieval history or 18th-century English literature. He remained at the top of his game for more than 60 years, advising generations of bosses and avoiding being trapped by fashion.
    But Drucker was more than just an antidote to status anxiety. He was also a preacher of management. He argued that management is one of the most important engines of human progress: "the organ that converts a mob into an organization and human effort into performance". He endlessly extended management’s empire. From the 1950s onwards he offered advice to Japanese companies as well as American ones. He insisted that good management was just as important for the social sector as the business sector.
Such ideas as re-engineering and such companies as Enron are mentioned to show that ________.
选项 A、status anxiety troubles every management practitioner
B、the management business is actually a trick to cheat others
C、nothing stands forever no matter how wonderful they are
D、it seems the management business does not have a "bottom"
答案D
解析 根据re-engineering和Enron可定位到第三段。第三段谈到咨询业从业者饱受身份焦虑折磨的两个主要原因，re-engineering和Enron均在解释第二个原因(即这个行业的高端人士似乎缺少约克郡人所说的“脚踏实地”)时出现。故选D项。A项“身份焦虑困扰着每个管理业从业者”是由两个原因造成的，而题干中涉及的仅是其中一个原因。B项“管理业实际上是骗其他人的把戏”是造成身份焦虑困扰的另一个原因，但不是该例证所证明的原因。C项“无论现在多么精彩，没什么是可以永恒存在的”仅是对字面意思的理解。
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