First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 8, 2014

She is the author of Idea to Invention: What You Need to Know to Cash in Your Inspiration (AMACOM, January 2014.) Patricia Nolan-Brown has been inventing and marketing problem-solving products for more than 22 years. She also teaches an online self-paced class consisting of 20+ short how-to videos via Skill Share.

Wilde 75

Wilde Drucker Class Tools 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 7, 2015

Nick is the author of The Nature of Value: How to Invest in the Adaptive Economy (Columbia University Press 2014) and involved in a technical confidential project with one of the world’s largest global macroeconomic hedge funds.

Hedge 70

Hedge Drucker Risk Management Media 70

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

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. Business best practice never stands still.

Blue Ocean Strategy 250

Blue Ocean Strategy Prahalad Christensen Leadership 250

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 23, 2016

Alan is the former CEO of the Ford Motor Company and was ranked by Fortune magazine as the third greatest leader in the world in 2014. Frances Hesselbein was the head of the Girl Scouts and Peter Drucker said she is the greatest leader he ever met. Two of the best leaders I have ever known are Frances Hesselbein and Alan Mulally.

Airlines 119

Airlines Drucker Video Energy 119

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 For Drucker, the newest new world was marked, above all, by one dominant factor: “the shift to a knowledge society.”. A 2014 McKinsey & Co. It’s no wonder why.

Drucker 14

Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Knowledge Management 14

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Not surprisingly, many well-known leadership book authors made the list, such as authors: Drucker Kotter Maxwell Welch Interestingly, the discussion thread, particularly within the Linked 2 Leadership group of LinkedIn, generated debate about the value and quality of some of the book recommendations.

Books 50

Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 50

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 8, 2019

” As of 2014, 390 million units were sold. We see how Peter Drucker’s thought leadership continues to guide leaders and organizations. Solar power has generated over 17 times what was predicted in 2000. We also take a look back at last year’s top blogs to help your reflection and renewal.

Project 67

Project Letter Trends Wilde 67

Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2018

It wasn’t until I gained a better understanding of his [Deming’s] concept of profound knowledge by reading his works, combined with what I learned during consulting engagements with Peter Drucker and Russ Ackoff that I came to more fully understand and appreciate the value of his thinking. Deming Consults on Quality.

Deming 28

Deming Kaizen Rogers Drucker 28

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Peter Drucker famously said that the point of a business was to create a customer. Make 2014 the year you begin to move your organization from the mindless management of numbers to the creation of customer and employee value, organized around a clarifying and motivating purpose. Embrace your organization’s humanity.

Levitt 12

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Not surprisingly, many well-known leadership book authors made the list, such as authors: Drucker Kotter Maxwell Welch Interestingly, the discussion thread, particularly within the Linked 2 Leadership group of LinkedIn, generated debate about the value and quality of some of the book recommendations. Top Books About Leadership.

Books 80

Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 80

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

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. Between 1983 and 2014, the number of managers, supervisors and support staff in the U.S. in 2001 to 16% in 2015.

Bureaucracy 10

Bureaucracy Organization Health Care Drucker 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

The WSJ for example reported as recently as 2014 that the future was “very bright for anyone entering into compliance as a career.”). Writing in the early eighties, Drucker was especially concerned about one major drag on entrepreneurial activity: the high cost of following ever more onerous regulations.

Compliance 10

Compliance Drucker Banking Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Or as Richard Straub of the Peter Drucker Society of Europe puts the question , “are managers equipped – in terms of skills, competencies and courage – to lead us toward the Great Transformation?”. But, as Drucker also said, “unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes, but no plans.” But vision is not enough.

Management 12

Management Drucker Technology Information Technology 12

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Michel Kripalani – President & CEO of Oceanhouse Media, an app development company, ranked by Inc 500 as one the Fastest Growing Private Companies in 2014. Three iconic leaders inspired the 100 Coaches project. Author or editor of 29 books.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

One recent global research survey of employee assistance programs found that, combined, employee anxiety, stress, and depression accounted for over 80% of all emotional health cases in 2014, compared with 55% in 2012. Or perhaps prod you to interrupt less.).

Stress 9

Stress Self-aware Software Emotional Intelligence 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Between 2000 and 2014, the TELUS brand grew in value from a few hundred million dollars to $4.3 This post is part of a series leading up to the annual Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 2014 in Vienna, Austria. billion, and its revenues increased from $6.4 billion to $11.7 Read the rest of the series here.

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Kurzweil predicts that the rate of scientific discovery will keep picking up, such that the amount of knowledge gained in the seven-year period of 2014-2021 will be equivalent to the entire previous century’s gains – and eventually, that a century’s worth of progress will happen within a month.).

Skills 8

Skills Drucker Gordon Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Barbara Ann Berwick drove for Uber for eight weeks in 2014. grew from 20 million in 2001 to 32 million in 2014. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 5-6, 2015 in Vienna. She, and two others, then brought suit against the company.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Diversity Hotels Drucker 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

This post is part of a series leading up to the 2014 Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 in Vienna, Austria. It’s an opportunity for business leaders to stand up, be counted, and convert the threat into an opportunity for transformation without settling for incremental change. See the rest of the series here.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Attrition Uncertainty Bottom-up 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 19, 2015

Judith Humphrey is the Founder of The Humphrey Group, a Toronto-based firm that teaches leaders at all levels how to be influential and inspiring communicators.

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Humphrey Globalization How To Leadership 70

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

This post is part of a series leading up to the 2014 Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 in Vienna, Austria. It’s an opportunity for business leaders to stand up, be counted, and convert the threat into an opportunity for transformation without settling for incremental change. See the rest of the series here.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Attrition Uncertainty Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Indeed, in the 1980s Peter Drucker, the management expert who correctly understood that the purpose of the business corporation is to create customers rather than profits for shareholders, touted 20:1 as a sufficiently high ratio for any company in any country, including the United States.

CEO 8

CEO Black-Scholes Price Merton 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.

Influence 100

Influence Succession Ethics Bureaucracy 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

This post is part of a series leading up to the annual Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 2014 in Vienna, Austria. This is the dark side of efficient markets: systematically high volatility and an entire industry that exists to exploit and exacerbate it. Read the rest of the series here. Economy Finance'

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Marketing Real Estate Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

This post is part of a series leading up to the 2014 Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 in Vienna, Austria. But to see these complementarities you have to take both market failures and management failures seriously — and not enough people are doing that as yet. See the rest of the series here. Economy Finance'

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

This post is part of a series leading up to the 2014 Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 in Vienna, Austria. But to see these complementarities you have to take both market failures and management failures seriously — and not enough people are doing that as yet. See the rest of the series here. Economy Finance'

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Census Bureau, there were 700,000 fewer net businesses created from 2005 to 2014 than from 1985 to 1994. In a speech at the 2015 Drucker Forum, Zhang said, “Our goal is to let everyone become their own CEO.” Despite the media buzz around unicorns, the U.S. economy is steadily becoming less hospitable to startups.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2014

This post is part of a series leading up to the annual Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 2014 in Vienna, Austria. We need to stop pulling each other down by the tail and instead build up our ideas together. Read the rest of the series here. Collaboration Communication Innovation'

How To 8

How To Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This post is part of a series leading up to the annual Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 2014 in Vienna, Austria. What choices will we make and what actions will we take in this rapidly changing environment? The future depends on us. Read the rest of the series here. Technology'

Technology 8

Technology Stress Bottom-up Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Thirty years ago, no less a business guru than Peter Drucker weighed in, skewering short-termism in a Wall Street Journal editorial. For much of the period since 2000, its growth was fairly weak in the United States, but 2014 saw a big increase in R&D. years in 2014. But that is far from true. years in 2002 to 7.2

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

This post is part of a series leading up to the 2014 Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 in Vienna, Austria. We can cure the core incompetencies of the corporation—but only with a bold and concerted effort to pull bureaucracy up by its roots. See the rest of the series here. Execution Innovation Organizational culture'

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

This post is part of a series leading up to the 2014 Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 in Vienna, Austria. We can cure the core incompetencies of the corporation—but only with a bold and concerted effort to pull bureaucracy up by its roots. See the rest of the series here. Execution Innovation Organizational culture'

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2014

Business Hall of Fame that I met Peter Drucker. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Her quote: “There are new ways to approach familiar experiences,” and I have applied that to corporate turnarounds. It was by being inducted into the U.S. We subsequently worked together, doing corporate retreats.

Balanced Scorecard 73

Balanced Scorecard Budgeting Risk Management Learning-by-Doing 73

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

In 1989, Peter Drucker wrote an article for Harvard Business Review titled “What Business Can Learn from Nonprofits.” As Peter Drucker knew, the same holds true for nonprofits. We wouldn’t be surprised if readers had the same reaction upon seeing the headline that sits atop this piece. Take Louisville, Ky.,

Drucker 8

Drucker Katz Innovation Learning-by-Doing 8

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.”

Management 8

Management Drucker Survey Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

GE vice chairman Beth Comstock spoke to the issues of speed and continual customer input in a 2014 interview, when she said, “We work in these very complex, deep industrial technologies. More flexibility about making changes to ideas as they progress from concept to “minimum viable product” to finished product.

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. That’s how you overcome challenges, and keep your mission going in your absence. Culture That Drives Performance.

Emotional Intelligence 10

Emotional Intelligence GDP McKinsey Airlines 10