Commitment to Excellence an Antidote

Peter F. Drucker writes in Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1974):

We hear a great deal today about the organization man and about alienation of people in organizations. I doubt whether there is more conformity in today's organization than there was in yesterday's small village with its tremendous pressures of class and kin, of caste and custom. I doubt seriously whether there is more alienation today than in earlier societies. . . . But whether conformity and spiritual despair are greater or less today than they used to be, the one effective counterforce to both is the individual's commitment to self-development, the individual's commitment to excellence.