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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001.

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Leaders Can Turn Creativity into a Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

In 1985, Peter Drucker made a hopeful case for an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and the creation of new businesses would more than compensate for job losses stemming from the retreat of manufacturing industries in the U.S. and other developed economies. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society.

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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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Strategic Insight is Not on the CEO Radar

Harvard Business Review

In 2001, Peter Drucker wrote in The Economist that "businesspeople stand on the threshold of the knowledge society. In this society, a company's competitive advantage will come from an historically underdeveloped asset: the ability to capture and apply insights from diverse fields.". It's a compelling argument.

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In 2014, Resolve to Make Your Business Human Again

Harvard Business Review

Peter Drucker famously said that the point of a business was to create a customer. Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage.

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March 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Welcome to the March 2013 Leadership Development Carnival! The Workplace Environment: Culture, Change, Innovation, and Empowerment. Taking Risks is Necessary, But Costs of Failure Should Still be Managed discusses how to maximize innovation and improvement while minimizing the impact of failure. Valuing Human Capital.

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0505 | George Bradt: Full Transcript

LDRLB

DAVID: I think that’s the great point and also, last podcast we were talking to William Cohen and he actually mentioned that a lot of times … he studied under Peter Drucker. Drucker’s right and you’re right. DAVID: I find that often if I’m in line with what Drucker said, I am right, so that works really well.

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