to describe the highly trained, intelligent managerial professional who realises his or her own worth and contribution to the organisation.

Peter Drucker, The Age of Discontinuity, 1969

sees himself just as another professional, no different from the lawyer, teacher, preacher, doctor or the government servant of yesterday-

He has the same education, more income and probably greater opportunities

He may well realise that he depends on the organisation for access to income and opportunity

and that without the investment the organisation has made – and a high investment at that – there would be no job for him

but he also realises, and rightly so, that the organisation equally depends on him