Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Peter Drucker famously said that the point of a business was to create a customer. As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Innovation Leadership Strategy' No, it’s to maximize shareholder value. And short-term numbers at that.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Lou Gerstner’s arrival at IBM in 1993 is a classic example of leadership through a liminal period. Between 2000 and 2014, the TELUS brand grew in value from a few hundred million dollars to $4.3 But Darren never saw the change required as only a matter of capitalizing on new technologies and developing new products.

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 6, 2015

Starting from the familiar premise, attributed to Peter Drucker, that “culture eats strategy for breakfast,” O’Connor and Dornfeld offer useful advice on how to deal with the human side of strategy implementation: getting employees to accept needed change. Yet the novel is not an anti-technology, anti-business diatribe.

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Influence Succession Ethics Bureaucracy 100

Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2014

Business development. Courage and leadership. Business Hall of Fame that I met Peter Drucker. I was then challenged to come up with such a program, the result being the Leadership in Action Awards. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.

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Balanced Scorecard Budgeting Risk Management Learning-by-Doing 71

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

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. ” A 2014 survey by Deloitte of top U.S. In this case, management could easily misapply resources. Less than one in 10 firms said they “innovate in an agile way.”

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Management Drucker Survey Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

When my publication, Innovation Leader, surveyed 170 executives who work in R&D, strategy, and new product development roles at large public companies, we found that 82% said they’ve already deployed some elements of the lean startup approach. A faster cycle time for developing ideas.

Company 8

Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

As Peter Drucker put it, “culture eats strategy over breakfast” Just take a look at Southwest Airlines, the company which saw the greatest value expansion in the S&P 500 between 1971 and 2001. It also creates the conditions for neurogenesis, allowing people to learn and develop new healthy habits and competencies.

Emotional Intelligence 9

Emotional Intelligence GDP McKinsey Airlines 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Deep change, when it happens, is belated and convulsive, and typically requires an overhaul of the leadership team. Most of the recommended remedies—idea wikis, business incubators, online collaboration, design thinking, “authentic” leadership, et al —are no more than minor tweaks. See the rest of the series here.

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Disruptive Innovation Business Incubator Incubator Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Apple has maintained a relatively high degree of control over how something is developed, and over how value can be captured from it, but the use and utility of its platform far exceeds anything that anyone at Apple could ever have imagined. And he sees organizational platforms as the natural way to do this.

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