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BEHIND the growing attention which is focused in these days on planning as an integral element in industrial revival or in national and international recovery, there is an increasing consciousness that the demands which are habitually made on leadership, whether of industry or of the State, are far more onerous than those of a few decades ago. It is not sufficient now for an industrial administrator to be competent to assess merely the internal and local factors of his industry. Whether they are financial, economic, political, or technical, he is compelled to extend his view to the national industry as a whole, and beyond that to an increasing extent to the industry as a world unit. Indifference to the international aspects of industry, like neglect of the technical and scientific factors, invites disaster, and this is as true of national administration as it is of industry. It would be difficult to name a single first-class problem with which modern political administrators are confronted which does not involve in its solution intricate and essential technical and scientific factors which cannot be appraised apart from scientific and technical knowledge.
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Industrial and Business Administration. Nature 130, 181–183 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130181a0
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