Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Every few hundred years throughout Western history, a sharp transformation has occurred,” Peter Drucker observed in a 1992 e ssay for Harvard Business Review. “In How should managers alter their approaches to fit the times? Knowledge workers have to manage themselves,” Drucker advised. It’s no wonder why.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Half of the 14 billionaires on Forbes magazine's 2010 list of the world's richest self-made women are from mainland China. Sixty-five percent of the more than 1,000 college-educated women surveyed consider themselves very ambitious, compared to 36 percent of their U.S. But the similarities end there. The payoff?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The answer is the sharp and unexpected rise of existential risk. Old efficiency thinking based on engineering and rational market models needs to be replaced by a creative intelligence based on imagining, building and managing new futures. They need to be embraced by leaders to enable them to deal with a world of radical uncertainty.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

have dropped by billions — down 11% in 2010 alone, according to a recent report from the Chronicle of Philanthropy. For more tightly focused not-for-profits , such as the Cleveland Clinic and the network of Food Banks around the country, the decline is not nearly as sharp. There is a crisis in the not-for-profit sector.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. There was little in the way of new industries, companies, jobs, profits, or taxes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2015

These soaring rates of phone-usage coincide with a sharp decline in taking time off from work. According to a new report from Project: Time Off , which surveyed a representative sample of over 700 kids between 8 and 14 years of age, and their parents, our always-on habits are reshaping our children’s lives.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

That number has climbed to 23%, according to a new Gallup survey. Perhaps even more important is the sharp rise in Americans who expressed no preference, even when cued to care. ” An important 2010 study of legal secretaries by law professor Felice Batlan illustrates this dynamic, as does my own research.

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