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Culture is Not Enough

Great Leadership By Dan

As a result, Peter Drucker's alleged comment that “Culture eats strategy for lunch” has become popular in our collective memory. The four dimensions are Courage, Relatedness, Awareness, and Agility. Agility is nimbleness of thought and action. At the same time, it can offer an effective roadmap for organization improvement.

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Entrepreneurs Need A Detailed Understanding Of Their Customer’s Problems

The Horizons Tracker

The deluge of easy money into the sector has prompted many would-be entrepreneurs to take their eye off the ball, and whereas Peter Drucker famously said that the only real purpose of a business is to create a customer, the current entrepreneurial landscape allows founders to get rich without worrying too much about that.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

Ever heard comments like these in your organization? “How many people work in your organization?” ” “The most dangerous place in this organization is at the exit door around quitting time. ” Attracting and retaining top talent is a major problem for many organizations.

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

Great Leadership By Dan

The identity of an organization is shifting away from the CEO; elements of control are being willingly transferred to the employee, with empathetic and individualized attention being paid in order to increase engagement. Guest post from Sophie Wade: Leadership is in the midst of a major makeover.

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My 2020 Story and a Few Lessons Along the Way

QAspire

We are far more adaptable, agile and resilient than we think. Why Organizations Don’t Learn? 5 Disciplines of a Learning Organization: Peter Senge. Leading the Self in Tough Times: Drucker Revisited. A Few Lessons Along the Way. It was a wonderful collective learning experience for me and my family.

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Beyond Management

Coaching Tip

Peter Drucker saw this first; "as we advance deeper into the knowledge economy, the basic assumptions underlying much of what is taught and practiced in the name of management are hopelessly out of date.As Organizing is an important part of life. Making meaning (individually and collectively) is the real work of organizing.

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Brian J. Robertson on Holacracy: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Forbes and Fast Company credit him for developing Holacracy, a comprehensive management system for governing and running organizations that are fast, agile, and that succeed by pursuing their purpose, free from the tyranny of top-down planning that is instantly out of date. Some of the… Read More Brian J.

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