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TO-DAY, in almost every sphere of activity, as is widely recognised, the majority of the important problems that have to be handled are largely technical in character; this is so whether these problems lie in the broad domain of national policy, in the narrower limits of administrative action, or in the restricted fields of executive performance. To this situation is due, as is well known, the need that has arisen in recent times for that high degree of specialisation in certain kinds of knowledge which has revolutionised the scheme of organisation of the personnel in the fields of commerce and industry, and is likewise responsible for the introduction, in many enterprises throughout the world, of the régime of the expert.
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Knowledge and Power. Nature 105, 93–95 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105093a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105093a0