Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Becoming a true digital organization is not just about becoming tech-savvy. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. What are the organization’s goals?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

In 1973, Peter Drucker stated in his book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, "Management is not culture-free, that is, part of the world of nature. Yet, here we are in 2013 with organizational leadership models that continue to deny the social nature of organizations and wallow in inertia. It is a social function.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

More than a year after its publication, I’m still reeling from the results of Gallup’s 2013 Global Workforce Study. ” The theme of the 7 th Annual Global Drucker Forum is Claiming Our Humanity: Managing in the Digital Age. The first step in claiming our humanity is creating workplaces that optimize human engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

We are embodied organisms, fine-tuned by evolution to garner cues to action from our surroundings. From about the age of seven onward, however, we develop the capacity for perspective-taking. As Peter Drucker often contended, management is neither an art nor a science, but a practice with aspects of each.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

For people in organizations facing an external world of mounting chaos, being led by groups of highly idiosyncratic leaders, however authentic, could be confusing and distracting. How likely was it that they would be on top of the rapid developments in Asian consumer markets, or in technology and design emanating from Silicon Valley?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology platform on which hundreds of thousands of independent developers could create apps and offer them to Apple''s customers. In the 20th Century, their organizations competed on scale efficiency and relied on hierarchical bureaucracies to run tight ships. Work in short cycles.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Gallen had developed a management model based on systems thinking. Managers'' eyes were opened to the reality that organizations are not just complicated but complex. I remember well when the idea of applying complexity science to management was first being eagerly discussed in the 1990s.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

It comes about as fields of knowledge are segmented into multiple domains, and each domain develops deep algorithmic knowledge and specialized tools that work by ignoring many of the variables actually in play. This is why management continues to advocate diversity as integral part of any successful organization.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. Many organizations are approaching the tipping point being described in this series of blogs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

It was originally seen as a good thing – a way of allowing organizations to survive changes in leadership, and to resist the capriciousness of powerful individual leaders with vested interests. I spend a lot of time working with executives on how they might declutter, simplify, or speed up the inner workings of their organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, among others, share Warren Buffett’s discipline to read extensively, safeguard time for personal development projects, and constantly seek new stimulus and perspectives. To develop a routine, time for reflection should be a regularly scheduled and a protected event on the leader’s calendar.

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