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StrategyDriven Welcomes Hank Moore | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

He is a Futurist and Corporate Strategist TM , with four trademarked concepts of business… heralded widely for ways to remediate corporate damage, enhance productivity and facilitate better business. The Business Tree TM is his trademarked approach to growing, strengthening and evolving business, while mastering change.

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We Need Better Managers, Not More Technocrats

Harvard Business Review

Technology has tremendous potential to be the engine of increasing human, organizational, and economic prosperity. Digital transformation is therefore the key managerial imperative for today’s business leaders. But, as Drucker also said, “unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes, but no plans.”

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Managing in an Age of Winner-Take-All

Harvard Business Review

Over the last 250 years, waves upon waves of scientific and engineering advances have brought about an accelerating rise in living standards that even the two deadliest wars in history could not reverse. Tumbling transaction costs are altering the economics of organizations and, at a stroke, invalidating old business models.

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The Promise of a Truly Entrepreneurial Society

Harvard Business Review

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. Peter Drucker called this a turning point in human history. Drucker observed long ago that each social problem is a business opportunity in disguise.

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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business Review

Many business leaders are fond of the spurious Peter Drucker quote that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” New business models can hurt a company’s existing businesses; however, if they work, they can enhance overall performance. Mismeasurement can lead to mismanagement.

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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business Review

Peter Drucker said : “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” Drucker’s exhortation, “What gets measured gets managed” is often invoked when approaching execution. Morsa Images/Getty Images. ” Metric obsession. As we now know, the company lost to rivals.

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To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM

Harvard Business Review

Sloan’s book My Years with General Motors , written half a century ago, is still a readable business classic. Peter Drucker wrote that Sloan was “the first to work out how to systematically organize a big company. What Does GM Have to Do with Tesla and Elon Musk? Well, thanks for the history lesson, but why should I care?