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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. Emphasizing compliance with a plan can, under stable conditions, accelerate fruition of a strategy.

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The Changing Rules of Trust in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. The DNA of “peer trust” is built on opposite characteristics – micro, bottom-up, decentralized, flowing and personal.