Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

The article castigated companies for losing sight of the essence of their business, setting themselves up for challenges from competitors and, ultimately, for obsolescence. Peter Drucker famously said that the point of a business was to create a customer. And short-term numbers at that.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

He studied the relative importance of management teams in 106 venture capital-financed firms from early business plan to IPO. This finding is a ringing modern confirmation of what Peter Drucker was telling us in 1967 about what makes executives effective.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Kaplan Competitive Advantage Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

These statistics are mentioned in every interview and article. To modify the Peter Drucker quote, "Culture eats tools for breakfast" — if you don't understand the culture you're operating in, creating change will be an uphill battle. When you're trying to push for an intangible goal (e.g. number of schools built, or test scores).

Metrics 13

Metrics Education Software Tools 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

“Until we can manage time,” Peter Drucker declared in The Effective Executive , “we can manage nothing else.” A couple of finance people converted Excel spreadsheets into calendars that let them chart time spent and deadlines in genuinely intriguing ways. Wrote one: ‘I no longer feel guilty.’”

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Review Drucker Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

We hear similar ideas in Peter Drucker’s bestseller, The Age of Discontinuity , where he argues that all sectors of society are “affected with the public interest” but must operate in symbiosis, like an orchestra—each playing its own part in collaboration with other institutions.

Company 10

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

Peter Drucker wrote that Sloan was “the first to work out how to systematically organize a big company. Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policy making, corporate finance, and planning. Sloan’s book My Years with General Motors , written half a century ago, is still a readable business classic.

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2011

The book draws the best thinking from numerous disciplines, including marketing, economics, and finance, to deliver a comprehensive presentation that comes alive through numerous case studies, memorable examples, and graphs. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. All rights reserved.

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Price Strategy Discount Levitt 50

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

It includes books by Peter Drucker, Charles Handy, Charles Koch, Jack Welch, and Bob Sutton. and that would make another dynamic article on this topic for the leader who’s willing to take time from the book-a-day to write it. Here's a link to a recent "re-reading" list.

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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. Thus, technological innovation in these sectors tends to be financed by the government and carried out within government or quasi-government laboratories.

Innovation 8

Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. This includes basic research, applied research, and downstream patient and strategic long-term finance to companies. billion in public support.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Cost-Benefit Analysis Policies Drucker 8