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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Think about it: how organizations are run in 2014 is radically different from how they were run just ten years ago. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001. Drucker was writing about knowledge workers in the late 1960s. Who else could you learn from outside your organization?

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Todd L. Pittinsky: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

In 2001, he launched the Allophilia [.]. Pittinsky is Professor of Technology and Society at SUNY Stony Brook and a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He was previously Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he served as Research Director for Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership.

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More of Us Are Working in Big Bureaucratic Organizations than Ever Before

Harvard Business Review

Writing for the Harvard Business Review in 1988, Peter Drucker predicted that in 20 years the average organization would have slashed the number of management layers by half and shrunk its managerial ranks by two-thirds. in 2001 to 16% in 2015. Unfortunately, it hasn’t turned out that way. At present, there are 1.2

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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. Insight has no owner: Most organizations don't have an owner of the insight generation process.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman of the Gallup Organization present the findings of an extensive research undertaking involving over 80,000 managers in over 400 companies – the most comprehensive analysis of employee engagement done in the world. By Peter F.

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Memo to Meg Whitman: 4 Tips for Tackling HP

Harvard Business Review

R&D has been starved at HP for years, and it will be hard to pull enough irons out of the fire to propel organic growth. I studied IBM and HP (and your former company, eBay) for my 2001 book, Evolve. Lafley used the late Peter Drucker. It's a safe bet that resumes are already in play. HP Invent is an empty slogan.

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Read Good To Great

Eric Jacobson

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. The book, five years in the making, and published in 2001, addresses the all-important question of: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? So, dig deep for ideas.

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