Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Peter Drucker was asked whether he considered himself more of a historical writer or a management thinker: “More a historical writer,” Drucker answered. They are operation rather than strategic leaders.” (As They are agile and adaptive. They are guided by a single long-term vision, seeing the forest rather than the trees.

Leadership Styles 363

Leadership Styles Drucker Emotional Intelligence Long-term 363

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Autonomy is a key one that impacts leaders’ positions and roles which has been found to be a critical component for increasing employee engagement and thence productivity, as noted already by Peter Drucker decades ago, especially in relation to knowledge workers.

Fayol 191

Fayol Press Release Scientific Management Drucker 191

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” ” Drucker Forum 2018 This article is one in a series related to the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum , with the theme “ Management. ”

Drucker 13

Drucker Long-term Short-term Decentralization 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As more firms became multinationals, fewer showed loyalty to particular communities or any hesitation to migrate their operations to wherever costs were lowest. Employees were viewed more as fungible inputs to operations, and customers viewed more as targets within more and less lucrative segments. It’s not very agile.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

Agile minds are our richest resource for sharpening our competitive edge. Effective executives, as Peter Drucker noted, want to get ahead of potential problems. For knowledge-intensive industries, people's talent, expertise and ingenuity are essential ingredients for success. Privacy matters, of course, but it's seldom central.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Ethics Human Capital Drucker 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

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).

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

We are at the early stages of seeing large organizations outsource specific services such as HR, accounting, payroll, and IT support while breaking themselves up into smaller, more agile enterprises to address specific markets, geographies, or customers. Then become someone else''s customer for everything else. Structural changes.

CIO 8

CIO CEO Outsourcing Agility 8