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Create a Strategy for Creating a Strategy

Lead Change Blog

In the competitive marketplace, a leader has the challenge to lead an organization to help it achieve their goals. As Peter Drucker said, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” The purpose of strategy is to create a competitive advantage. How do we best focus on strategy? Visualize the future.

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Six social-media skills every leader needs

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by Roland Deiser and Sylvain Newton for The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, in which they explain how and why organizational social-media literacy is fast becoming a source of competitive advantage.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Think about it: how organizations are run in 2014 is radically different from how they were run just ten years ago. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001. Drucker was writing about knowledge workers in the late 1960s. Who else could you learn from outside your organization?

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0503 | Julian Birkinshaw: Full Transcript

LDRLB

And my research is essentially about how to help particularly large organizations become better managed, better organized, and more well-equipped for the future. and he was talking about how Drucker was one of the first people that elevated management as a thing to strive for. DAVID: Fantastic. And you really are.

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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. This “VUCA” environment rewards innovation but it also punishes failure more harshly.

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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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0505 | George Bradt: Full Transcript

LDRLB

People are doers and they’re doing things and then all of a sudden, they’re managing and they think that what they should do is just organize and coordinate and tell people to do what they used to do, and of course, that only gets you so far. Drucker’s right and you’re right. We just think a person was a great individual contributor.

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