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Managing Company Culture Anthropologically

Leading Blog

Despite its perceived importance, for the most part, companies have a miserable track record when it comes to managing their people. On the one hand, most CEOs agree with with the statement attributed to Peter Drucker: culture eats strategy for breakfast. B USINESSES are really bad at establishing an engaging culture.

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35 Leadership Quotes from the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Leading Blog

T HE 10th annual Global Peter Drucker Forum was held in November 2018 in Drucker's home town of Vienna, Austria. This year’s theme was Management: The Human Dimension. Management has maybe become too machine smitten. Many managers mix up formulating a strategy and developing a plan. It’s about fixing society.

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If Peter Drucker Were Your Personal Coach…

Next Level Blog

For more than 50 years of his almost 96 year life, Peter Drucker was known as the "Father of Modern Management." His dozens of books included The Concept of the Corporation, The Practice of Management and The Effective Executive. Drucker was one of the few big thinkers who changed the way people view leadership.

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Lessons I Learned from the Father of Modern Management, Peter Drucker

Marshall Goldsmith

At one meeting of the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation, I asked Peter, “You have written so much about mission—what is your mission?”. He not only taught me about management, he also taught me about life. Peter Drucker did not just teach by what he wrote—he taught by who he was. I hope you’ll find them helpful too!

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Coffee House Book Review – “The Drucker Lectures” by Peter F. Drucker

Tanveer Naseer

One of the new features I will be adding to my blog this year is what I’m calling the “Coffee House Book Review”, which will feature reviews on books from the fields of leadership, management, marketing, and other areas of interest to those who are running or managing a business or organization.

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How to Stop Procrastinating and Manage Your Scarcest Resource

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Peter Drucker, often considered the father of modern management, described time as a “unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.” Noting that most people take time for granted, Drucker observed, “Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.” Not being clear […].

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A Quote for the day from Peter Drucker – on Management by Objectives

First Friday Book Synopsis

No long blog post needed… So, read this from Peter Drucker, and ask yourself the obvious question about your business. Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Peter Drucker Filed under: Randy''s blog entries. Randy''s blog entries' Ninety percent of the time you don’t.”