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Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

The shift marks a significant move away from Henri Fayol's autocratic “command-and-control” type management theories and methodologies which have been in vogue since the early 1900s. Leaders manage from within as integrated members of the corporate community not lofty, distinct and distant figureheads.

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Time to Lead: What We Can Learn from Great Leaders

Leading Blog

Peter Drucker was asked whether he considered himself more of a historical writer or a management thinker: “More a historical writer,” Drucker answered. We therefore gain more valuable leadership insights from historical analogies and examples than by embracing the latest management fads. They are agile and adaptive.

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Socially Responsible Business Can Only Succeed If It Becomes a Movement

Harvard Business Review

Note especially the brave, innovative management reflected in social enterprises such as the Sampark Foundation , where Vineet Nayar, former CEO of HCL Technologies, is on a mission to inspire kids in rural India to learn how to think and invent like frugal innovators. ” Purpose, moreover, means for him social purpose.

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Are Your Most Talented People Losing Their Minds?

Harvard Business Review

Agile minds are our richest resource for sharpening our competitive edge. So just how closely should management monitor their employees' minds? Savvy managers are always sensitive to what might be going wrong as what should be getting better. Effective executives, as Peter Drucker noted, want to get ahead of potential problems.

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The IT Conversation We Should Be Having

Harvard Business Review

Trends that are affecting fundamental concepts of business, and in turn IT: The basic ideas of capitalism--return on investment (ROI) and return on assets (ROA)--are being challenged by the historical stalwarts of capitalism ( Harvard , Drucker Society , Forbes , the London School of Economics and many more). IT management ROA ROI'

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How CIOs Can Keep In Step With CEOs

Harvard Business Review

The nature of the workforce and management is shifting. Management is trying to adapt to these new realities of the workforce. Otherwise, you lose flexibility, agility, adaptability, and even scale economics begin to reverse. IT management' It is challenging, to say the least, to existing enterprises. Structural changes.

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Capitalism’s Future Is Already Here

Harvard Business Review

” Choices about whether and how to use money to remedy social problems should be left to individuals, he argued, who would be in better position to provide it if they were not being in effect taxed by corporate managers who thought they had better ideas for how to spend it. Raised customers’ expectations.