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0503 | Julian Birkinshaw: Full Transcript

LDRLB

Just the other day I was having a conversation with a good friend of mine who’s in a doctorate in leadership program but yet he finds himself reading a lot of Peter Drucker etc., and he was talking about how Drucker was one of the first people that elevated management as a thing to strive for. DAVID: Yeah, I totally agree.

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Socially Responsible Business Can Only Succeed If It Becomes a Movement

Harvard Business Review

We must use these technologies to unleash human potential — undoubtedly the most underused resource on the planet — and bring greater purpose, meaning, and values to work. ” Drucker Forum 2018 This article is one in a series related to the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum , with the theme “ Management.

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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. 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.

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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).

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How Managers Can See the Future More Clearly

Harvard Business Review

It’s the best way yet invented to focus the organization’s capital, human, and time resources toward the goals of the business. In this case, management could easily misapply resources. Or suppose the lens was a mirror looking only at past ways to deploy resources. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age.

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Capitalism’s Future Is Already Here

Harvard Business Review

Already, in his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom Friedman had declared that “there is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.”