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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. The most important person is not the CEO, but the person facing a challenge. Leadership should shift from hierarchy to hustle.

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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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3 Practices CEOs Can Learn from the Girl Scouts

Michael Lee Stallard

In 1976 she became CEO of the national organization, Girl Scouts of the USA. With membership falling, and the organization in a state of serious decline, Mrs. Hesselbein put sound management practices in place. Mrs. Hesselbein’s leadership style, in fact, it seems her purpose in life, is to bring out the best in the people she meets.

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The No-Boss Workplace: Can Great Leadership Be Crowdsourced?

Terry Starbucker

There’s an interesting leadership experiment going on right now here in Portland. That’s right – aside from the CEO, there are zero managers. This experiment was recently chronicled in the Oregonian in a front-page story by Mike Rogoway , featuring an interview with Treehouse’s CEO Ryan Carson.

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Getting Things Done: How Great Leadership Moves From Talk To Action

Terry Starbucker

I hear a lot of that talk these days as an angel investor, and by and large, most of the startup CEOs I listen to do a pretty good job of that kind of visioning. Where the rubber meets the road, however, is when these CEOs go from talk to action. Leadership' They will want you to lead the way.

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Developing a Servant Leadership Strategy

Nathan Magnuson

I first heard the term “servant leadership” in high school. The more I’ve studied business and leadership effectiveness, the more I’ve learned that servant leadership is a supportive, inclusive and empowering style of leading others. Many leaders want to grow in servant leadership.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness. His observation points to a big leadership problem, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. Some managers will complain about a declining work ethic.

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