Leading more towards the end of his chapters on economic policy opens with a defense of General Motors against "the curse of bigness”. Here again the justification is chiefly in terms of the requirements of managerial organization, which Drucker considers an indispensable factor of modern production, on equal terms with labor, raw materials, and capital. Reversing the usual argument that mammoth units stifle talent, because a company like GM has room for only one man at the top, the author argues that there's always a place for good men somewhere in the organization-in fact more key jobs than key men-unlike the situation in smaller companies, where the management is dictated by the birthing order of the family. Additionally, only giants like
