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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001. Drucker was writing about knowledge workers in the late 1960s. In The Innovator’s Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle with radical innovation in their markets. Christensen’s influence on the business world has been profound.

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Strategic Insight is Not on the CEO Radar

Harvard Business Review

In 2001, Peter Drucker wrote in The Economist that "businesspeople stand on the threshold of the knowledge society. So strategic insight, for all the importance that Drucker placed on it, simply doesn't get a look in. The Market Research Department owns a small piece of it. It's a compelling argument.

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Memo to Meg Whitman: 4 Tips for Tackling HP

Harvard Business Review

I studied IBM and HP (and your former company, eBay) for my 2001 book, Evolve. Put other people forward, especially current HP executives who know more than you do about the technology and markets. Lafley used the late Peter Drucker. IBM's shift to software and services occurred in the 1990s. The PC division was sold in 2005.

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Who Benefits from the Peer-to-Peer Economy?

Harvard Business Review

grew from 20 million in 2001 to 32 million in 2014. The music and print media – in fact, all content producers – have had to transform as new platforms increasingly give the small the powers of marketing and distribution that were once reserved for the very large. Freelance work now comprises almost 18 percent of all jobs.